Instagram sold to Facebook

Instagram as well as Twitter are raving with activity ever since the news appeared that Facebook had made the acquisition of Instagram for a billion bucks - Instagram Sold To Facebook.

Today all important media and blog sites are showing as well as publishing pages and pages regarding the deal, whether it is monetary elements, advertising approaches for both firms and the possible following growths in Palo Alto's mobile as well as social media network sector ...

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

Instagram Sold To Facebook

Yet just what does it actually indicate for individuals as well as Instagramers like us?

After Mark Zuckerberg's main news last night on his Facebook profile, thousands of remarks appeared. Not just in Twitter yet In Instagram also. For daily Instagramers like us, the Instagram Application has successfully become our main interaction tool. An area where we could share more than merely images, but our feelings, ideological background and our point of views also.

Yesterday, our @Igers pic mentioning the "Facebook deal" made it to the Popular Page, not a surprises there ...

As owner of Instagramers, the main fan network of the Instagram App around the globe, obviously that my phone was hot with activity last evening. References, inquiries, doubts ... I am probably among the initial Iger obtaining problems every day, as it should be!

Lots of people are asking me today what will certainly occur following so I determined to write this post.

The curious thing about this whole story and also our Instagram customers experience is that we seem to behave in different ways depending on the social media networks we use.

-- Most of us are deeply involved with the Instagram Application itself as well as state to be addicted. There is a strong feeling of stickyness with Instagram's expanding area. An actual sensation of being part of it with the area. That's why we additionally got what amounts to an unique anxiety of Android' s incursion right into the Instagram world, we are afraid that it could destroy our best little globe

-- Most of us have really no suggestion of who possesses our pics legal rights as well as which 3rd party can utilize it (like in Facebook )

-- All of us have Facebook account.

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

-- According to a recent study, approximately 12.5% of the images posted to Twitter could be from Instagram.

-- Our very own Instagramers Network of greater than 270 local teams globally is organized around Facebook Profiles and we have an exclusive team of over 200 "ManIgers" arranging events, instawalks, events, sharing suggestions, offering suggestions ...

So why are we so scared of Facebook?

As Net users we won our independence as well as freedom in our options. We do not wish to depend on institutions or corporations anymore. Instagram until today was like a tiny "household" composed by a couple of young guys who created an outstanding application and altered our lives ... They utilized to answer personally with the helpdesk center, @Josh worked up on Sunday to publish "The week on Instagram" on their blog and also there was a genuine synergy between individuals and also owners of the application therefore naturally, we are left wondering what will certainly take place now.

In a photo I posted yesterday in @Igers Profile on Instagram (see here in the best side) I obtained greater than 220 adverse remarks concerning the acquisition. There is no question that some people are truly disturbed may believe their rights will certainly not be appreciated which it will possibly smell organisation as well as marketing almost everywhere.

However we have to be mindful that our preferred app could just survive if there is a practical organisation version behind.

I would conclude that Facebook already has a billion customers which they are definitely not seeking for 30 million Instagram users to increase their participant rankings. Not at all. Most of us are currently Facebookers and Mark currently has all our personal info. Furthermore, Zuckerberg has actually not demonstrated any type of thinking about merging both Brands as well as Providers (at the very least for the moment). He knows we do not act similarly in each social media sites platform we come from and that we act in a different way relying on our motivations. Merging both systems under the Facebook umbrella would certainly provoke an enormous migration to various other photo-sharing apps like Eye' em or Picplz.

I actually do think this offer is a lot more an inquiry of strategy and maintaining Google and also other rivals at bay (Google had actually recently shown interest for IG). I directly believed that Instagramwould fit better with Twitter. It made even more sense to me however it's appears that Jack Dorsey is truly happy with his Instagram Shares value today as he was among the preliminary funding fund investor.

I think that (for least a few months, maybe a year ...) there will be no vital adjustments in our Instagram Application and that in any case, it is worthless to aim to intend even more than that.

A lot more the one million Androiders registered recently and also absolutely nothing really took place. So why should we be frightened of Facebook this moment?

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