Facebook Owns Instagram | Update

Instagram and Twitter are raging with activity since the information came out that Facebook had actually made the purchase of Instagram for a billion dollars - Facebook Owns Instagram.

Today all important media and also blogs are reflecting as well as publishing pages and web pages regarding the offer, whether it is monetary elements, marketing techniques for both business and the possible next advancements in Palo Alto's mobile and also social media network field ...

If I was a Hollywood flick producer, I would certainly have called the flick a Billion Dollar Infant ...


Facebook Owns Instagram


But just what does it really indicate for customers and Instagramers like us?

After Mark Zuckerberg's official statement last night on his Facebook account, thousands of remarks appeared. Not only in Twitter but In Instagram too. For day-to-day Instagramers like us, the Instagram App has efficiently developed into our primary communication device. A location where we could share greater than just pictures, yet our sensations, belief and our opinions as well.

Yesterday, our @Igers pic mentioning the "Facebook bargain" made it to the Popular Page, no surprises there ...

As founder of Instagramers, the primary fan network of the Instagram App all over the world, it goes without saying that my phone was warm with task last night. References, concerns, questions ... I am probably among the first Iger obtaining complaints each and every single day, as it must be!

Many individuals are asking me today what will certainly occur following so I determined to compose this post.

The curious aspect of this whole story and also our Instagram users experience is that we seem to behave in a different way depending on the social networks we utilize.

-- A lot of us are deeply entailed with the Instagram App itself or even state to be addicted. There is a strong sensation of stickyness with Instagram's expanding area. An actual feeling of being part of it through the neighborhood. That's why we likewise got exactly what amounts to a special fear of Android' s attack right into the Instagram world, we are afraid that it might damage our perfect little globe

-- Most of us have actually no idea of that possesses our pictures rights and also which third party can use it (same as in Facebook )

-- All of us have Facebook account.

-- A substantial part of our Instagram Pics are day-to-day as well as naturally shared to our very own Facebook wall surfaces as well as profiles.

-- According to a current study, approximately 12.5% of the photos submitted 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 also we have a personal team of over 200 "ManIgers" arranging events, instawalks, exhibitions, sharing ideas, giving suggestions ...

So why are we so scared of Facebook?

As Web customers we won our independence and freedom in our choices. We do not wish to depend on institutions or corporations anymore. Instagram until today was like a small "household" composed by a few young men that created a remarkable application and changed our lives ... They utilized to address personally via the helpdesk facility, @Josh worked up on Sunday to publish "The week on Instagram" on their blog site as well as there was an actual synergy in between users and owners of the app therefore naturally, we are left questioning exactly what will take place currently.

In a photo I published the other day in @Igers Profile on Instagram (see here in the best side) I received more than 220 unfavorable comments concerning the procurement. There is no doubt that some individuals are really upset may think their civil liberties will not be respected and that it will possibly scent business as well as advertising all over.

Yet we have to be aware that our favored application can just subsist if there is a viable service design behind.

I would wrap up that Facebook already has a billion individuals which they are absolutely not seeking for 30 million Instagram users to improve their member rankings. Never. Most of us are currently Facebookers and also Mark already has all our personal information. Furthermore, Zuckerberg has not demonstrated any interested in merging both Brands and Solutions (at the very least for the moment). He recognizes we do not behave similarly in each social media platform we belong to and that we act in a different way depending on our motivations. Merging both platforms under the Facebook umbrella would provoke a large migration to various other photo-sharing apps like Eye' em or Picplz.

I really do think this bargain is a lot more a question of approach and also keeping Google as well as other rivals away (Google had lately revealed passion for IG). I directly assumed that Instagramwould fit far better with Twitter. It made even more sense to me but it's appears that Jack Dorsey is really pleased with his Instagram Shares worth today as he was among the first round funding fund capitalist.

I believe that (for the very least a few months, maybe a year ...) there will be no vital changes in our Instagram App which in any case, it is ineffective to attempt to intend better compared to that.

A lot more the one million Androiders registered last week as well as nothing truly occurred. So why should we be terrified of Facebook this time?