Today all important media and also blogs are showing as well as publishing web pages as well as pages about the deal, whether it is economic aspects, marketing methods for both companies and the possible following developments in Palo Alto's mobile and also social media network sector ...
If I was a Hollywood motion picture manufacturer, I would certainly have called the flick a Billion Dollar Infant ...
Did Facebook Buy Instagram
But exactly what does it really suggest for individuals and also Instagramers like us?
After Mark Zuckerberg's main announcement last evening on his Facebook profile, countless remarks showed up. Not only in Twitter however In Instagram too. For daily Instagramers like us, the Instagram Application has actually successfully turned into our major communication tool. A place where we can share greater than simply images, but our feelings, ideology and our opinions too.
The other day, our @Igers pic discussing the "Facebook bargain" made it to the Popular Web page, no surprises there ...
As creator of Instagramers, the primary follower network of the Instagram Application worldwide, needless to say that my phone was hot with task last night. Mentions, questions, doubts ... I am probably among the initial Iger receiving complaints every day, as it must be!
Many people are asking me today what will certainly happen following so I chose to compose this article.
The curious feature of this whole story and also our Instagram customers experience is that we appear to behave differently relying on the social media networks we use.
-- Most of us are deeply included with the Instagram Application itself and even declare to be addicted. There is a solid feeling of stickyness with Instagram's growing neighborhood. A genuine feeling of becoming part of it via the area. That's why we also got what totals up to a special worry of Android' s attack right into the Instagram world, we are afraid that it can destroy our best little globe
-- A lot of us have really no concept of who possesses our pictures rights and which third party might utilize it (like in Facebook )
-- Everyone have Facebook account.
-- A huge part of our Instagram Pics are daily and normally shared to our own Facebook wall surfaces and also profiles.
-- Inning accordance with a recent research, as much as 12.5% of the pictures posted to Twitter could be from Instagram.
-- Our very own Instagramers Network of greater than 270 regional teams around the world is arranged around Facebook Profiles and we have a private team of over 200 "ManIgers" arranging events, instawalks, events, sharing concepts, giving pointers ...
So why are we so frightened of Facebook?
As Web individuals we won our independence and freedom in our selections. We do not wish to count on institutions or companies any longer. Instagram up until today resembled a tiny "household" composed by a few young men that developed a remarkable app and altered our lives ... They used to respond to personally through the helpdesk center, @Josh developed on Sunday to publish "The week on Instagram" on their blog site and also there was a real harmony between users as well as proprietors of the app therefore normally, we are left wondering exactly what will take place now.
In an image I uploaded yesterday in @Igers Account on Instagram (see below in the ideal side) I received greater than 220 negative comments about the acquisition. There is no doubt that some people are truly upset might assume their civil liberties will not be respected and that it will probably smell business and also marketing all over.
Yet we have to be aware that our favorite app can only subsist if there is a viable service design behind.
I would wrap up that Facebook currently has a billion users and that they are certainly not seeking for 30 million Instagram users to boost their member ranks. Not. A lot of us are currently Facebookers and also Mark currently has all our individual details. In addition, Zuckerberg has actually not demonstrated any type of curious about combining both Brands and Services (at least for the moment). He recognizes we don't act similarly in each social media system we come from and that we act in different ways relying on our motivations. Combining the two platforms under the Facebook umbrella would certainly prompt a large movement to various other photo-sharing apps like Eye' em or Picplz.
I really do assume this deal is a lot more a question of approach as well as maintaining Google as well as various other competitors away (Google had actually just recently shown interest for IG). I directly thought that Instagramwould fit much better with Twitter. It made even more feeling to me yet it's seems that Jack Dorsey is truly delighted with his Instagram Shares worth today as he was just one of the preliminary funding fund investor.
I think that (for the very least a few months, perhaps a year ...) there will be no crucial adjustments in our Instagram App and that regardless, it is ineffective to try to prepare better than that.
A lot more the one million Androiders registered last week as well as absolutely nothing really occurred. So why should we be frightened of Facebook this time?