--- description: Welcome to social media, Babs title: Here’s Barbra Streisand’s First Instagram Post image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Social Media](/tag/social-media/) ## Social Media Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's Barbra Streisand's First Instagram Post by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 6, 2014 9:28 PM CUT by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 6, 2014 9:28 PM CUT The world welcomed the one and only Barbra Streisand to Instagram on Wednesday. The 72-year-old singer-songwriter/actress/producer/director/national treasure shared the pic below with her 1,699 followers, and we’re already thinking it’s time to start calling her posts Babstagrams. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3087632/heres-barbra-streisands-first-instagram-post/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3087632/heres-barbra-streisands-first-instagram-post/"},"headline":"Here's Barbra Streisand's First Instagram Post","datePublished":"2014-08-06T21:28:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:32:29.312Z","description":"Welcome to social media, Babs","url":"https://time.com/3087632/heres-barbra-streisands-first-instagram-post/","keywords":["Social Media","Instagram"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/social-media/","name":"Social Media"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3087632/heres-barbra-streisands-first-instagram-post/","name":"Here's Barbra Streisand's First Instagram Post"}}]}] ```