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		<title>Japan&#8217;s Instagram Alternative Taps Into Your Inner Tweenage Sticker Fiend</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:34:26 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Nitasha Tiku</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_42410" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/japans-instagram-is-so-much-better-than-ours"><img class="size-medium wp-image-42410 " title="enhanced-buzz-10232-1335450543-1" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/enhanced-buzz-10232-1335450543-1.jpg?w=300&h=300" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Something tells us Buzzfeed Ben is not as smitten.</p></div></p>
<p>American audiences have <a href="http://pick.naver.jp/AdrianChen/2133539815141872506">discovered</a> a Japanese version of Instagram called <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pick/id361632966?mt=8">Pick</a> and Buzzfeed is nearly beside itself with the possibilities. "I'm pretty sure I'm never switching back," swoons <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/japans-instagram-is-so-much-better-than-ours">FWD's John Herrman</a>. What makes Pick so much &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3-ier than its domestic counterpart? Stickers! There are puppy stickers, and straw hat stickers and bunny wabbit stickers, and alphabet stickers--all the better to spell out <em>squeeeeeee</em>!<!--more--></p>
<p>This iteration of Instagram makes it a little harder to buy photo-sharing as an <a href="http://gigaom.com/2011/06/19/why-instagram-works/">emotionally resonant</a>, <a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/09/every-time-you-love-a-service-it-gets-closer-to-being-acquired/">perspective-enhancing</a> life experience. But, hey, your inner Harajuku girl has emotions too.</p>
<p>Hopefully no one figures out how to <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cinemagram/id487225881?mt=8">"cinegram"</a> Pick pics, otherwise there goes the rest of FWD's day.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_42410" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/japans-instagram-is-so-much-better-than-ours"><img class="size-medium wp-image-42410 " title="enhanced-buzz-10232-1335450543-1" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/enhanced-buzz-10232-1335450543-1.jpg?w=300&h=300" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Something tells us Buzzfeed Ben is not as smitten.</p></div></p>
<p>American audiences have <a href="http://pick.naver.jp/AdrianChen/2133539815141872506">discovered</a> a Japanese version of Instagram called <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pick/id361632966?mt=8">Pick</a> and Buzzfeed is nearly beside itself with the possibilities. "I'm pretty sure I'm never switching back," swoons <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/japans-instagram-is-so-much-better-than-ours">FWD's John Herrman</a>. What makes Pick so much &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3-ier than its domestic counterpart? Stickers! There are puppy stickers, and straw hat stickers and bunny wabbit stickers, and alphabet stickers--all the better to spell out <em>squeeeeeee</em>!<!--more--></p>
<p>This iteration of Instagram makes it a little harder to buy photo-sharing as an <a href="http://gigaom.com/2011/06/19/why-instagram-works/">emotionally resonant</a>, <a href="http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/09/every-time-you-love-a-service-it-gets-closer-to-being-acquired/">perspective-enhancing</a> life experience. But, hey, your inner Harajuku girl has emotions too.</p>
<p>Hopefully no one figures out how to <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cinemagram/id487225881?mt=8">"cinegram"</a> Pick pics, otherwise there goes the rest of FWD's day.</p>
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