Facebook Buys Instagram

Instagram and Twitter are raving with task since the news appeared that Facebook had made the purchase of Instagram for a billion bucks - Facebook Buys Instagram.

Today very important media and blogs are reflecting and also releasing pages and pages concerning the deal, whether it is economic elements, advertising and marketing techniques for both business as well as the possible next developments in Palo Alto's mobile and social network field ...

If I was a Hollywood motion picture manufacturer, I would certainly have called the motion picture a Billion Dollar Child ...



Facebook Buys Instagram


But what does it actually indicate for customers and also Instagramers like us?

After Mark Zuckerberg's official news last night on his Facebook profile, thousands of comments showed up. Not just in Twitter but In Instagram too. For daily Instagramers like us, the Instagram App has successfully become our major communication device. A location where we can share more than simply images, but our feelings, ideological background and also our opinions as well.

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

As owner of Instagramers, the main follower network of the Instagram App worldwide, needless to say that my phone was warm with activity last night. References, concerns, uncertainties ... I am most likely among the first Iger obtaining issues each and every single day, as it must be!

Many individuals are asking me today what will certainly occur next so I chose to create this article.

The interested aspect of this whole story and our Instagram individuals experience is that we seem to behave differently depending upon the socials media we utilize.

-- The majority of us are deeply entailed with the Instagram Application itself or even proclaim to be addicted. There is a strong sensation of stickyness with Instagram's expanding neighborhood. A genuine experience of becoming part of it via the neighborhood. That's why we additionally figured what totals up to an unique concern of Android' s attack into the Instagram world, we fear that it could damage our perfect little globe

-- Most of us have truly no suggestion of who possesses our images civil liberties as well as which 3rd party could use it (same as in Facebook )

-- All of us have Facebook account.

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

-- Inning accordance with a current study, up to 12.5% of the photos posted to Twitter could be from Instagram.

-- Our very own Instagramers Network of more than 270 regional teams globally is arranged around Facebook Profiles and we have an exclusive group of over 200 "ManIgers" organizing events, instawalks, exhibitions, sharing concepts, providing pointers ...

So why are we so terrified of Facebook?

As Net customers we won our freedom and also autonomy in our choices. We do not want to rely on institutions or firms anymore. Instagram till today resembled a small "household" composed by a few young people that developed a fantastic application as well as changed our lives ... They utilized to respond to directly via the helpdesk facility, @Josh worked up on Sunday to release "The week on Instagram" on their blog as well as there was a genuine harmony between users and also owners of the application and so normally, we are left wondering exactly what will certainly occur now.

In a picture I posted yesterday in @Igers Profile on Instagram (see below in the ideal side) I received greater than 220 unfavorable remarks about the acquisition. There is no doubt that some individuals are truly disturbed may assume their legal rights will certainly not be appreciated which it will possibly smell business as well as marketing everywhere.

But we need to be aware that our preferred app could only survive if there is a feasible organisation design behind.

I would certainly conclude that Facebook currently has a billion users and that they are definitely not seeking for 30 million Instagram users to improve their member rankings. Never. Most of us are already Facebookers and Mark already has all our personal info. Additionally, Zuckerberg has actually not shown any kind of thinking about merging both Brands and Providers (a minimum of for the moment). He knows we don't act similarly in each social media sites system we come from and that we act differently relying on our inspirations. Merging both platforms under the Facebook umbrella would provoke a huge movement to various other photo-sharing applications like Eye' em or Picplz.

I actually do assume this deal is much more a concern of technique and maintaining Google as well as other rivals at bay (Google had actually just recently revealed interest for IG). I personally thought that Instagramwould fit much better with Twitter. It made more feeling to me yet it's appears that Jack Dorsey is truly delighted with his Instagram Shares worth today as he was just one of the first round capital fund capitalist.

I believe that (for the very least a couple of months, perhaps a year ...) there will certainly be no crucial modifications in our Instagram App which all the same, it is pointless to aim to intend even more than that.

More the one million Androiders signed up last week as well as nothing actually happened. So why should we be terrified of Facebook this time around?