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Having a blind date is nerve-wracking. Even among women! However, more of them are taking place in the communicative environment of the Internet, as bloggers meet photographers, Twitter friends want to drink coffee together and Instagram admirer exchange ideas about apps and gadgets. Previously one may have put a rose on the lapel and peered from behind a book. My last blind date I recognized through the flower dress, she had uploaded on Instagram (tag #dailyoutfit) and shared on her Facebook wall before her arrival. And probably it was the same for her, because I saw her from afar with a big smile, and she exclaimed: "I knew I must look for someone in white-blue."
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What is the matter with my generation, that we can spend afternoons running around a beautiful fountain just to try out the new app "Loopcam"? The animated .gif never came out particularly well, but we gained irritated, amused looks of passers-by. Whether Loopcam, Cinemagram or the classics like Instagram and Hipstamatic: camera apps can be found on almost every smartphone and the platform communities are growing enormously. Not for nothing was the mini company Instagram bought by giant Facebook for $ 1 billion. You may rate this step positively or negatively, it certainly shows the importance of images, videos and visual impressions in our times.
