If This Than That Insight

IF THIS, THAN THAT is a free web-based service to create chains of simple conditional statements called applets. Web services that use IFTTT are Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Telegram.

IFTTT helps devices all work together. It works with over 160 devices and web services. The app does a great job of connecting all of your devices and services all together in an easy and simple way. You have to allow It to have control of each account that you own in order for It to work.

You can use IFTTT as a way to share your Instagram Photos. Using IFTTT while trying to post an Instagram photo will post It directly to your twitter, but not how It normally would post if you shared It directly from the Instagram app. It will post It as an actual picture and not just a URL. IFTTT will also save all of your Instagram Uploads into a folder on your google drive account, and then you can share with anyone that has access to the drive. Posting your pictures from Instagram to Tumblr became easier by sending the tagged photos straight to your account. You can also create a Facebook Album and directly upload the instagram pictures automatically. And finally IFTTT can send your Instagram photos to anyone by Gmail, if you wanted to share It with someone who didn't have an Instagram account.

You can also use IFTTT as a helpful tool for saving and managing your money. IFTTT can find savings and deals all around. It will track certain items online for you and notify you when the prices drop so you can make sure you are getting what you want at the lowest price possible, which is saving you money. Websites such as best buy, Ebay, and Home Depot, have their own IFTTT channels, which again, notify you when a certain price drops. IFTTT saves all of your receipts, so you can watch what you are saving, and also save some trees while you are at It. You can make sure that the certain someone that owes you money, gets It to you. Clients that owe you money can be tracked, and stored with the information in a Dropbox account. Also while using It, you can get free stuff, getting notifies when apps or music or games become free for you.

While reading a book called "LOL...OMG" by Matt Ivester, talks about how the internet It wanting us  to post our lives. "As blog creating website Blogger puts It, "Your blog is water you want It to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules." In less than a minute, you can be sharing your thoughts and opinions with the whole world. Facebook asks "What's on your mind?" Twitter wants to know "What's happening?"". All of the internet websites want you to post about your life, and It isn't good or bad. Having a life online and offline is fine, there is not shame in anything with having to ways to share your life. Posting online can be a social post or an academic post. Seeing everything you did last weekend verses seeing the new technology you learned about while in a lecture are two different ways of seeing stuff online. By posting online you are creating your reputation. "Collectively, all  of the digital content that you and others create becomes your online reputation. And today, that's the reputation that matters most".

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