VIRAL - Singapore's Famous Bloggers Exposed for Buying Fake Instagram Followers #InstagramPurge

Singapore's Top Blogger - Xiaxue lost 30,000 Instagram followers

VIRAL - Singapore Famous Bloggers Exposed for Buying Fake Instagram Followers - Recent news in the Media highlighted how several well-known bloggers and personalities in Singapore experienced a sharp decline in the number of followers on their Instagram Profiles after an Instagram Purge. It is definitely shocking to read how some of them resorted to buying followers to fake their own celebrity fame and popularity. We really wonder how much money have they spent in doing so? While most of them when interviewed welcomed the Instagram Purge or simply laugh it off, exposing this truth has clearly harmed their reputation and clearly shows how they lack honesty and integrity.

Many of our friends and fans have asked us what we thought of the matter and here are some of our thoughts with no offense to anyone:

1. THE SG SISTERS is a new blog started in Jan 2013. We started blogging not for profit reasons but purely out of the passion for writing and sharing our unique experiences with people who have interest in our lives mainly for our family, relatives, friends etc. We did not start this blog to make money. Therefore, we do not consider ourselves as full time bloggers and see no need to compete with other bloggers in terms of number of followers. As Business Owners ourselves, we have busy schedules and our own businesses play a much more important role in our lives.

2. While we have utmost respect for top Bloggers in Singapore, we are extremely surprised that some of them have resorted to buying followers and we think that this is a lack of integrity and fair competition. We hope in future, there will be more transparency, clarity and fairness.

3. THE SG SISTERS have never resorted to buying Instagram Followers. We can humbly declare we just signed up for Instagram a few months ago and seriously, we did not know that there was a possibility of buying followers and honestly, we would really spend our money on other more useful things. So hope this answers your questions on whether we bought any Instagram followers or not. We are pretty new to Instagram and our number of followers are growing :)

4. THE SG SISTERS is never a blog targeted for mass market but rather a niche market. Our blog features on Luxury and all things related to Luxury, therefore we do not see a need to compete in the number of followers or in the fame game. Our aim is not to be the most famous Bloggers but rather we want to be Bloggers who make a difference. We aim to fill in the gap in the Blogging Industry by offering professional Blogging services to businesses who wish to engage bloggers who write well, share their real life experiences and work professionally. Some businesses who have engaged us have alerted us how they have worked with previous Bloggers who were always late for meetings, uncontactable, rude, unprofessional and write in poor English while others have just received free services and did not even blog for the companies in return.

5. THE SG SISTERS love and enjoy writing. Blogging has allowed us to share our beautiful photos and thoughts in writing. We hope all blog visitors gain some valuable information or knowledge and most importantly, leave our blog site with happiness :) We always aim to inspire others positively and share real information to the best of our knowledge. Therefore, we have also been extremely selective in choosing which companies to work with and hope to achieve a greater outcome from our different collaboration efforts and tie-ups with the businesses that we work closely with.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Engaging Bloggers/Influencers with high number of Followers does not necessarily mean you will get better results. There are many other variables to consider such as whether such Followers are active or inactive? whether they have the Spending Power/Money to purchase your products and services? whether the blog has high Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? whether the followers or blog visitors actually read the written content or just simply gazing/gawking at photos?

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Instagram - With the incredible tagline "Capture and Share the World's Moments", I am totally convinced to start an account after much hesitation as I am quite a pro Facebook user and I seriously wonder how others find time to juggle using so many different social networking platforms. After all, there must be really good reasons why Facebook would spend US$1 billion to buy over Instagram.

The Creation of Instagram - Founded in October 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger had never expected such overwhelming response from the World on this photo-sharing application. The amazing thing about Instagram is that this photo-sharing app only took 8 weeks to build and launch but was the end result of more than 1 year's work. Till date, Instagram has more than 30 million users worldwide with majority being female users. I guess it's women's nature to take beautiful photos especially of themselves in the latest SELFIE craze. Hashtag #selfie and you would see tonnes of photos posted by different people at their very best angles. With regards to taking selfies, I really wish phone companies would recognize how important it is to create a "Timer" function on mobile phones so everyone need not struggle to press the photo button at awkward positions. If normal cameras can have the "timer function", why on earth did they leave out such an important function in mobile phones???

NEW! Instagram Video - Newly Incorporated in June 2013, users can record and upload videos up to 15 seconds but honestly, I feel that 15 seconds is simply too short to convey any message effectively.

Different Types of Filters - I use "Normal" most of the time!

Instagram offers a number of photographic filters that users can apply to their images:

• Normal: No filter applied
• Amaro: Adds light to an image, with the focus on the centre.
• Mayfair: Applies a warm pink tone, subtle vignetting to brighten the photograph center and a thin black border
• Rise: Adds a 'glow' to the image, with softer lighting of the subject.
• Hudson: Creates an 'icy' illusion with heightened shadows, cool tint and dodged center.
• Valencia: Fades the image by increasing exposure and warming the colors, to give it an antique feel
• X-Pro II: Increases color vibrance with a golden tint, high contrast and slight vignette added to the edges.
• Sierra: Gives a faded, softer look.
• Willow: A monochromatic filter with subtle purple tones and a translucent white border.
• Lo-fi: Enriches color and adds strong shadows through the use of saturation and 'warming' the temperature.
• Earlybird: Gives photographs an older look with a sepia tint and warm temperature.
• Sutro: Burns photo edges, increases highlights and shadows dramatically with a focus on purple and brown colors.
• Toaster: Ages the image by 'burning' the centre and adds a dramatic vignette.
• Brannan: Increases contrast and exposure and adds a metallic tint.
• Inkwell: Direct shift to black and white - no extra editing.
• Walden: Increases exposure and adds a yellow tint.
• Hefe: Hight contrast and saturation, with a similar effect to Lo-Fi but not quite as dramatic.
• Nashville: Warms the temperature, lowers contrast and increases exposure to give a light 'pink' tint - making it feel 'nostalgic'.
• 1977: The increased exposure with a red tint gives the photograph a rosy, brighter, faded look.
• Kelvin: Increases saturation and temperature to give it a radiant 'glow'

My new instagram account has been finally set up so do follow me @lorachristellelim :) I am still figuring out how to use hashtags correctly as instagram is really new to me.

Do follow my sister Sara Shantelle Lim as well  @sarashantellelim  and even though she also just started her instagram account, she has quite a number of followers already!

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