Facebook Owns Instagram | Update

Instagram as well as Twitter are surging with task since the information came out that Facebook had made the acquisition of Instagram for a billion dollars - Facebook Owns Instagram.

Today all important media as well as blog sites are reflecting and releasing pages as well as web pages about the bargain, whether it is financial facets, marketing methods for both companies as well as the possible following developments in Palo Alto's mobile and social media network market ...

If I was a Hollywood flick manufacturer, I would have named the film a Billion Dollar Infant ...

Facebook Owns Instagram

However what does it truly mean for individuals and also Instagramers like us?

After Mark Zuckerberg's main statement last evening on his Facebook profile, hundreds of comments appeared. Not just in Twitter but In Instagram also. For day-to-day Instagramers like us, the Instagram Application has actually effectively become our primary interaction tool. A location where we could share more than merely pics, but our feelings, belief and also our opinions as well.

The other day, our @Igers pic pointing out the "Facebook bargain" made it to the Popular Page, not a surprises there ...

As creator of Instagramers, the major follower network of the Instagram App around the globe, obviously that my phone was hot with task last evening. References, questions, doubts ... I am possibly among the very first Iger receiving problems each and every single day, as it ought to be!

Lots of people are asking me today what will happen next so I chose to write this message.

The curious aspect of this whole story and our Instagram customers experience is that we appear to behave differently depending upon the social networks we utilize.

-- The majority of us are deeply involved with the Instagram Application itself and even declare to be addicted. There is a strong feeling of stickyness with Instagram's expanding neighborhood. A real experience of being part of it through the area. That's why we also got just what amounts to an unique concern of Android' s incursion into the Instagram world, we fear that it can damage our perfect little world

-- A lot of us have actually no concept of that owns our images legal rights and also which third party could use it (same as in Facebook )

-- All of us have Facebook account.

-- A massive part of our Instagram Pics are day-to-day and also normally shared to our very own Facebook wall surfaces and profiles.

-- Inning accordance with a recent research study, up to 12.5% of the images submitted to Twitter could be from Instagram.

-- Our own Instagramers Network of greater than 270 regional groups around the world is organized around Facebook Profiles and we have an exclusive group of over 200 "ManIgers" arranging events, instawalks, exhibitions, sharing concepts, offering ideas ...

So why are we so frightened of Facebook?

As Internet customers we won our independence as well as autonomy in our selections. We do not intend to rely upon organizations or companies any longer. Instagram until today was like a little "family members" composed by a couple of young men who established a fantastic application and changed our lives ... They utilized to respond to personally through the helpdesk facility, @Josh developed on Sunday to release "The week on Instagram" on their blog site and there was a real synergy in between customers as well as proprietors of the application and so normally, we are left wondering just what will occur currently.

In a pic I uploaded the other day in @Igers Profile on Instagram (see below in the right side) I obtained more than 220 adverse remarks about the procurement. There is no question that some people are really distressed might think their rights will not be respected and that it will possibly smell organisation and also advertising and marketing all over.

Yet we have to be conscious that our favored app can only survive if there is a viable service model behind.

I would wrap up that Facebook already has a billion users which they are certainly not seeking for 30 million Instagram customers to boost their member ranks. Not at all. A lot of us are currently Facebookers as well as Mark currently has all our individual information. Additionally, Zuckerberg has actually not demonstrated any curious about merging both Brands and also Services (at least for the moment). He recognizes we don't behave the same way in each social media sites system we come from and that we act in a different way relying on our motivations. Merging both platforms under the Facebook umbrella would certainly prompt a massive movement to various other photo-sharing apps like Eye' em or Picplz.

I truly do believe this bargain is much more an inquiry of approach as well as keeping Google and also other competitors away (Google had recently revealed passion for IG). I directly thought that Instagramwould fit much better with Twitter. It made more feeling to me but it's appears that Jack Dorsey is actually pleased with his Instagram Shares value today as he was among the first round funding fund investor.

I believe that (for least a few months, perhaps a year ...) there will be no important modifications in our Instagram Application which in any case, it is pointless to aim to intend additionally than that.

A lot more the one million Androiders registered last week as well as absolutely nothing truly happened. So why should we be scared of Facebook this moment?

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