Facebook Acquires Instagram

Instagram as well as Twitter are surging with task ever since the information came out that Facebook had actually made the purchase of Instagram for a billion dollars - Facebook Acquires Instagram.

Today all important media and blogs are reflecting and releasing pages and web pages regarding the offer, whether it is financial aspects, marketing techniques for both business and also the possible following developments in Palo Alto's mobile as well as social media industry ...

If I was a Hollywood movie producer, I would certainly have named the motion picture a Billion Buck Child ...


Facebook Acquires Instagram


But just what does it actually imply for users and also Instagramers like us?

After Mark Zuckerberg's main statement last evening on his Facebook profile, thousands of comments showed up. Not only in Twitter but In Instagram also. For daily Instagramers like us, the Instagram Application has actually properly become our primary interaction device. A place where we could share greater than merely pics, yet our sensations, ideological background and also our opinions also.

Yesterday, our @Igers pic discussing the "Facebook offer" made it to the Popular Page, no surprises there ...

As owner of Instagramers, the major follower network of the Instagram App all over the world, needless to say that my phone was warm with task last evening. Mentions, inquiries, uncertainties ... I am probably one of the initial Iger getting complaints every single day, as it must be!

Many individuals are asking me today what will certainly occur following so I made a decision to create this blog post.

The curious thing about this whole story and our Instagram users experience is that we seem to act differently depending on the social networks we use.

-- Most of us are deeply included with the Instagram App itself or even proclaim to be addicted. There is a strong feeling of stickyness with Instagram's expanding community. An actual feeling of becoming part of it with the area. That's why we likewise figured exactly what totals up to a special worry of Android' s attack into the Instagram world, we are afraid that it could destroy our ideal little world

-- A lot of us have actually no idea of who owns our images legal rights and also which 3rd party could utilize it (like in Facebook )

-- All of us have Facebook account.

-- A substantial part of our Instagram Pics are everyday as well as naturally shared to our own Facebook walls and also profiles.

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

-- Our very own Instagramers Network of greater than 270 local teams worldwide is organized around Facebook Profiles as well as we have a private team of over 200 "ManIgers" arranging events, instawalks, exhibits, sharing ideas, providing tips ...

So why are we so terrified of Facebook?

As Web users we won our independence as well as autonomy in our choices. We do not wish to count on establishments or companies anymore. Instagram till today resembled a tiny "household" made up by a few young guys who created an incredible application as well as changed our lives ... They made use of to respond to personally with the helpdesk facility, @Josh worked up on Sunday to publish "The week on Instagram" on their blog site and also there was a real synergy in between individuals as well as owners of the app and so naturally, we are left questioning just what will certainly occur now.

In a picture I posted yesterday in @Igers Profile on Instagram (see here in the ideal side) I obtained more than 220 adverse remarks about the purchase. There is no question that some individuals are truly upset may assume their rights will certainly not be valued and that it will most likely smell business and also advertising and marketing almost everywhere.

Yet we need to be aware that our favorite application could just survive if there is a viable business model behind.

I would certainly wrap up that Facebook already has a billion individuals and that they are most definitely not seeking for 30 million Instagram individuals to enhance their participant rankings. Never. A lot of us are currently Facebookers and Mark currently has all our individual details. Additionally, Zuckerberg has actually not demonstrated any kind of curious about merging both Brands and also Solutions (at least for the moment). He recognizes we don't act the same way in each social networks platform we come from and that we act in different ways relying on our motivations. Merging both systems under the Facebook umbrella would provoke a large movement to various other photo-sharing applications like Eye' em or Picplz.

I truly do assume this bargain is a lot more an inquiry of technique and keeping Google and also various other rivals away (Google had actually recently revealed rate of interest for IG). I directly believed that Instagramwould fit far better with Twitter. It made even more sense to me but it's seems that Jack Dorsey is actually delighted with his Instagram Shares worth today as he was one of the preliminary capital fund investor.

I think that (for least a couple of months, maybe a year ...) there will be no essential modifications in our Instagram Application and that all the same, it is worthless to aim to plan further than that.

A lot more the one million Androiders signed up recently and absolutely nothing truly took place. So why should we be scared of Facebook this time?