Unlike Instagram, there is no viewer that lets you see your feeds, nor is there a Windows 10 app for Snapchat like there is for Instagram (as limited as it is). You can also add filters, share multiple photos and videos to your story (and jazz them up with text and drawing tools), see what your friends are sharing, post comments, send disappearing media and words to others (through Instagram Direct), and more. Now sign into the Instagram app with the same ID and password as your mobile phone, and you can take a photo or shoot a video – via your webcam – and post it to your feed. After you download and install the 300MB BlueStacks (), sign in with your Google ID and then click on the Google Play store icon to search for and download Instagram. In fact, the Android operating system doesn’t even know it’s being run on a computer. Instead, to give you the mobile Instagram experience you know and love – while sitting at a computer during the 9-to-5 grind - download the free BlueStacks, an Android emulator for PC and Mac, which lets you run Instagram and other Google Play apps on your laptop or desktop. Similarly, PC users can download the official Instagram app for free from the Windows Store, but posting and editing photos is only available for tablets and PCs with touchscreens and backward-facing cameras.

But be forewarned this is a half-baked experience as you can’t post photos or videos.

With Instagram, you can go to the Instagram website (), sign in with your Instagram ID, and view photos of your feed. There are, in fact, a couple of ways you can access these smartphone-centric social media sites on your Windows PC or Mac. If it’s a mobile-focused platform like Instagram or Snapchat, however, you’re out of luck. You’re typing away on your computer most of the day - perhaps while at the office or school – and you want to check in on your favorite social network.

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