Just when our grandparents who grew up in the stone age thought we had enough social media apps on our smartphones, Vine comes along and sends their hearts sinking further down into their chests.

There’s Twitter for conversing, Facebook for sharing, Instagram for sharing photos and Snapchat for sharing photos super fast. What else would someone of our technology-obsessed generation need? An app for sharing video clips, obviously. That’s what Vine is, and it’s stupid.

Vine, which was acquired by Twitter last October, allows users to record video clips up to six seconds long through its in-app camera and share them immediately with their followers. The clips can be comprised of one single take or of multiple takes, giving it a certain stop-motion quality. While I find Vine completely pointless, there are a few positives I should point out first. The app is easy to use as it quickly records the video clips by tapping and holding a finger on the screen without any lagging. It also allows for quick sharing on other social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and a sleek and simple interface makes it easy to navigate. OK, so if it’s so great, why do I dislike it? Because it’s unnecessary.

Basically, Vine is just a moving Instagram. That’s partially why it’s so easy to navigate; it’s simply an Instagram replicate, except the photo moves for six seconds. If the Vine you are posting is God speaking to you from the heavens or Beyoncé shaking her rump, then that’s perfectly acceptable; a video clip is needed for things like that. But most of the Vines I see people uploading are basically clips of an inanimate object sitting on a table with unneeded added background noise. Please people, a picture is worth a thousand words; that’s why you use Instagram.

You may say, though, “What I want to share a picture doesn’t do justice.” Well, bummer. You aren’t Steven Spielberg and your irritating Vines are an obvious reminder of that. No one wants to see video clips of all the dirty piles of laundry in your room in which you make loud complaining noises in the background. And I certainly don’t care to see a 20-take clip of all of your friends sticking their face in the camera yelling profanities. This is the kind of stuff my peers are uploading to Vine. Do you see how I find this app annoying?

Another obvious reason why Vine is pointless? Since the app revolves around video clips, you can only enjoy it with your phone’s sound on. This means – unless you want everyone staring at you – you can’t pull your phone out and refresh your Vine feed in public, like you can Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Personally, if I’m bored in a public place, it would be embarassing to be using Vine and have a clip of someone trying to belt out a Whitney Houston song blaring from my phone. Isn’t the point of social media to entertain us when we can’t find it elsewhere?

I’m not too concerned about this Vine takeover, however. Just like Snapchat, I know Vine will be nothing more than a dead trend in a few short months.