Instagram and learning the dynamics of it is pure complication. Easy to set up and use, impossible to master. So many more questions than answers. No wonder so many people give up.

I have just posted my first Instagram reel.

Standard Instagram is photos. Reels is up to 15 seconds long videos.

I am already struggling with images.

To use an analogy.

Like 99.9% of Instagram users, I find mastering concept of organically growing your account like a perplexing murder. You see the victim – you set up Instagram. Who the hell did it? How the hell do you work Instagram effectively’

With me so far?

Then you try Instagram reels.

I posted my first one yesterday. To date 500 views. Amazing. I am not naïve though. I didn’t think for one moment Reels was my holy grail and I was a natural. I know social media and my own luck and knew it was a fluke. Nonetheless I felt positive. Tentatively today I posted a second one. To date 6 views. This is 6 hours after I posted. On my first one I had already hit 400 views.

I thought the second video was much better and interesting to add salt to the wound.

Going back to the analogy.

The detectives have been informed of another murder. Not connected, apparently.

Now the weight of detective work for the investigators to reach a conclusion, and for me to unravel the mysteries of Instagram has just been doubled.

Where is Poirot when you need him?