Instagram and Twitter are raging with task since the information came out that Facebook had made the procurement of Instagram for a billion dollars - Facebook Owns Instagram.
Today very important media and also blog sites are reflecting and also publishing web pages and pages concerning the deal, whether it is economic facets, advertising and marketing methods for both companies and also the possible next developments in Palo Alto's mobile and social media network industry ...
If I was a Hollywood motion picture manufacturer, I would have named the movie a Billion Dollar Infant ...
Facebook Owns Instagram
Yet what does it really mean for individuals and also Instagramers like us?
After Mark Zuckerberg's main news last night on his Facebook account, countless comments appeared. Not just in Twitter however In Instagram also. For day-to-day Instagramers like us, the Instagram Application has actually effectively developed into our major interaction tool. A location where we can share more than just pictures, however our sensations, belief and our point of views too.
Yesterday, our @Igers pic mentioning the "Facebook offer" made it to the Popular Web page, not a surprises there ...
As owner of Instagramers, the primary fan network of the Instagram Application around the globe, needless to say that my phone was warm with activity last night. Mentions, inquiries, doubts ... I am possibly one of the initial Iger receiving issues every day, as it must be!
Many people are asking me today what will take place following so I decided to compose this article.
The curious aspect of this whole story and our Instagram customers experience is that we seem to behave in a different way depending on the socials media we use.
-- A lot of us are deeply involved with the Instagram App itself as well as state to be addicted. There is a solid sensation of stickyness with Instagram's growing community. A real sensation of being part of it via the community. That's why we likewise got exactly what totals up to an unique worry of Android' s attack into the Instagram globe, we are afraid that it can ruin our ideal little world
-- A lot of us have truly no concept of who owns our pics rights as well as which 3rd party might utilize it (same as in Facebook )
-- Everyone have Facebook account.
-- A massive part of our Instagram Pics are daily as well as normally shared to our very own Facebook walls as well as accounts.
-- Inning accordance with a recent research study, as much as 12.5% of the pictures uploaded to Twitter could be from Instagram.
-- Our own Instagramers Network of more than 270 regional groups around the world is arranged around Facebook Profiles and also we have a private group of over 200 "ManIgers" organizing occasions, instawalks, exhibits, sharing suggestions, providing pointers ...
So why are we so scared of Facebook?
As Internet customers we won our independence as well as freedom in our selections. We do not want to count on organizations or corporations anymore. Instagram up until today resembled a small "household" composed by a few young individuals who created an outstanding application and changed our lives ... They utilized to answer directly via the helpdesk center, @Josh worked up on Sunday to publish "The week on Instagram" on their blog site and also there was an actual harmony between individuals as well as proprietors of the application and so normally, we are left wondering exactly what will occur currently.
In a photo I published the other day in @Igers Profile on Instagram (see here in the best side) I obtained greater than 220 adverse comments regarding the acquisition. There is no doubt that some individuals are actually distressed may assume their civil liberties will certainly not be valued which it will most likely smell organisation and marketing everywhere.
Yet we have to be aware that our favored app can only subsist if there is a sensible service model behind.
I would conclude that Facebook already has a billion individuals and that they are absolutely not seeking for 30 million Instagram individuals to increase their member ranks. Not. A lot of us are currently Facebookers as well as Mark already has all our individual details. Additionally, Zuckerberg has actually not demonstrated any kind of interested in merging both Brands and Providers (a minimum of for the moment). He knows we don't act the same way in each social media system we come from and that we act in a different way depending upon our motivations. Merging both systems under the Facebook umbrella would certainly provoke a substantial movement to other photo-sharing applications like Eye' em or Picplz.
I really do believe this bargain is a lot more an inquiry of technique and maintaining Google as well as other rivals at bay (Google had actually lately shown interest for IG). I personally thought that Instagramwould fit much better with Twitter. It made more sense to me but it's appears that Jack Dorsey is really pleased with his Instagram Shares value today as he was one of the first round capital fund capitalist.
I think that (for least a couple of months, maybe a year ...) there will be no crucial changes in our Instagram Application which in any case, it is useless to attempt to intend even more than that.
Much more the one million Androiders registered recently and also absolutely nothing really happened. So why should we be terrified of Facebook this time?
