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Instagram video: Parents need not change their approach with the new feature

Instagram now has video (15 seconds compared to Vine's six). Parents need not develop a new approach to Instagram's new video feature, though, and ConnectSafely's guide to Instagram still holds up. 

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Instagram founder Kevin Systrom talks about an added video feature to the Instagram program at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., June 20.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez
Instagram's new video feature is demonstrated at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., June 20.

Facebook鈥檚 little photo-sharing app just became a video-sharing app too. Whether they鈥檙e using Apple or Android phones, Instagram鈥檚 130 million users can now simply pick whether that image they want to capture is better static or in motion, then click on either the little camera or videocam icon. If they go with video, they can capture up to 15 seconds (no looping over and over as in other video-sharing apps like Vine). The filters that have always added to the fun in this app are there for video too (13 of them for it), and they can pick the frame they want to use to represent that little video on their profile or wherever they share it. If their shooting isn鈥檛 very steady, there鈥檚 a pretty amazing feature called Cinema (for now just for iPhone 4s and 5) that stabilizes the video for them.

Everything else about this new addition is a lot like the photo part of Instagram 鈥 which is almost more about illustrated conversations than mere photo-sharing. 鈥淲e鈥檙e still committed to making sure you have control over all of your content. Only the people who you let see your photos will be able to see your videos,鈥 wrote Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom in the聽. And we ConnectSafely folk have written a straightforward, 5-page聽聽that tells you how to help your kids keep it fun and constructive (we鈥檙e in the middle of updating it as I write this). Here鈥檚 coverage of the video announcement at聽.

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