Your photos belong to Instagram

mituozo said:
The problem is that 99% of people would rather not pay for something they can get for free. They don't care if they don't own the photos they send through filters, or even read the TOS.
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You have just identified a niche.
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Why did they even add this to the policy?

So they can charge sites like twitter for access to it?
 
dsm56 said:
Because cool hippy guys don't actually know who owns instagram. And this way they get to play the bad guy with instagram and direct people to FB.

They also get the cool hipster guys to start using facebook like instagram, which might get their friends to start posting cool hipster photos too etc etc...

How many of the 50m instagram users do you think know about the FB sale? 10%? Those users are worth losing if the other 90% just start using FB and they manage to turn FB into a cool photo sharing app.

Genius.
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It's simpler to MERGE instagram into Facebook, than SABOTAGE a company that you just bought for $ 1 billion.

Not sure is getting trolled...
 
inb4 facebook bubble burst crash meltdown of 2015
 
productionhead said:
It's simpler to MERGE instagram into Facebook, than SABOTAGE a company that you just bought for $ 1 billion.
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I disagree. You don't "get" the instagram user. You can't directly sell them the merge to facebook. It would be too mainstream.

My other alternative theory is that they somehow think that they'll make more than $1Bn selling the photos. But is that likely?

Look at this entire thread. No-one has come up with a proper reason for why instagram would be so stupid to do this. Because it is fucking retarded. Or it's just an experiment for the next massive FB user policy overhaul. I just had that idea.

The way I see it there are two possibilities:

1. The instagram execs are retards.
2. They are going to push users to facebook somehow.
 
FB bought instagram because it's a social network with a decent userbase, in direct competition to facebooks plan. Worth $1bn? possibly in terms of potential revenue losses if they hadn't. FB know photos are the #1 killer app for any platform for everyone with a phone, tablet or an android camera..
 
Facebook is probably just going to place ads between images in the feed. I really doubt they're going to push instagram users into facebook, that's sort of a waste of time.
 
I don't think we'll be seeing photos of people on impotence billboards soon, as you need a model release from any identifiable person in the photo to use it as advertising.
 
AdamC said:
FB bought instagram because it's a social network with a decent userbase, in direct competition to facebooks plan. Worth $1bn? possibly in terms of potential revenue losses if they hadn't. FB know photos are the #1 killer app for any platform for everyone with a phone, tablet or an android camera..
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FB bought Instagram because Zuckerberg needed to demonstrate a willingness to expand and potential for growth as a corporation, to show that FB isn't a one trick pony. Mobile has been seen as Facebook's major weakness and was of great concern to big investors pre-IPO. The timing relative to the IPO and the headline-grabbing $1 Billion valuation were no accident. It was a really brilliant move that helped launch the IPO at a share price that was unrealistically high, but many bought anyway.
 
cassius said:
FB bought Instagram because Zuckerberg needed to demonstrate a willingness to expand and potential for growth as a corporation, to show that FB isn't a one trick pony. Mobile has been seen as Facebook's major weakness and was of great concern to big investors pre-IPO. The timing relative to the IPO and the headline-grabbing $1 Billion valuation were no accident. It was a really brilliant move that helped launch the IPO at a share price that was unrealistically high, but many bought anyway.
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THIS. And they might have bought Instagram only for a cheap fuck like $20 Million.
 
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