Facebook Owns Instagram

Instagram and Twitter are raving with activity ever since the news appeared that Facebook had actually made the acquisition of Instagram for a billion dollars - Facebook Owns Instagram.

Today very important media and also blogs are mirroring and also publishing web pages and also web pages regarding the bargain, whether it is financial aspects, marketing methods for both companies and also the feasible following growths in Palo Alto's mobile and social network market ...

If I was a Hollywood movie manufacturer, I would certainly have named the flick a Billion Buck Infant ...



Facebook Owns Instagram


However what does it truly suggest for customers and Instagramers like us?

After Mark Zuckerberg's main news last evening on his Facebook profile, countless remarks showed up. Not only in Twitter but In Instagram too. For day-to-day Instagramers like us, the Instagram App has effectively transformeded into our major communication tool. A place where we can share greater than just pictures, yet our feelings, belief as well as our opinions also.

Yesterday, our @Igers pic discussing the "Facebook bargain" made it to the Popular Web page, not a surprises there ...

As founder of Instagramers, the primary fan network of the Instagram App worldwide, it goes without saying that my phone was warm with activity last evening. References, concerns, doubts ... I am most likely one of the very first Iger obtaining complaints each day, as it must be!

Many individuals are asking me today what will take place following so I made a decision to compose this blog post.

The curious feature of this whole story and our Instagram customers experience is that we seem to act in different ways depending on the social networks we use.

-- Most of us are deeply entailed with the Instagram App itself and even proclaim to be addicted. There is a strong sensation of stickyness with Instagram's expanding area. An actual feeling of belonging to it with the area. That's why we additionally caught on to what totals up to an unique anxiety of Android' s incursion right into the Instagram world, we are afraid that it might ruin our perfect little globe

-- A lot of us have truly no suggestion of who owns our photos legal rights and which 3rd party can utilize it (like in Facebook )

-- Everyone have Facebook account.

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

-- Inning accordance with a recent study, as much as 12.5% of the images posted to Twitter could be from Instagram.

-- Our own Instagramers Network of more than 270 local groups globally is arranged around Facebook Profiles as well as we have a private team of over 200 "ManIgers" organizing events, instawalks, events, sharing concepts, providing pointers ...

So why are we so scared of Facebook?

As Internet individuals we won our self-reliance and also autonomy in our selections. We do not want to rely on establishments or corporations any longer. Instagram up until today resembled a little "household" composed by a few young individuals that created a fantastic app and altered our lives ... They used to answer personally with the helpdesk center, @Josh worked up on Sunday to release "The week on Instagram" on their blog and also there was a genuine synergy between customers and also owners of the application and so naturally, we are left wondering exactly what will occur now.

In a picture I published yesterday in @Igers Profile on Instagram (see right here in the right side) I obtained greater than 220 adverse remarks concerning the procurement. There is no doubt that some people are actually distressed might think their civil liberties will not be respected which it will most likely smell company and advertising and marketing all over.

However we have to be mindful that our preferred app can just subsist if there is a practical service version behind.

I would wrap up that Facebook currently has a billion individuals and that they are absolutely not seeking for 30 million Instagram customers to improve their member ranks. Not. A lot of us are already Facebookers and Mark already has all our personal info. Additionally, Zuckerberg has not shown any type of curious about merging both Brands and also Providers (a minimum of for the moment). He recognizes we do not act the same way in each social media sites platform we come from and that we act in different ways relying on our motivations. Combining both platforms under the Facebook umbrella would provoke a large movement to other photo-sharing applications like Eye' em or Picplz.

I really do believe this offer is a lot more a question of method and keeping Google as well as various other competitors at bay (Google had actually just recently revealed interest for IG). I directly believed that Instagramwould fit better with Twitter. It made even more feeling to me but it's appears that Jack Dorsey is truly pleased with his Instagram Shares value today as he was among the preliminary funding fund investor.

I think that (for the very least a couple of months, perhaps a year ...) there will certainly be no essential changes in our Instagram App and that all the same, it is pointless to aim to plan even more compared to that.

Extra the one million Androiders registered last week and also nothing truly took place. So why should we be frightened of Facebook this time around?