Instagram sold to Facebook

Instagram and Twitter are raving with task since the news appeared that Facebook had actually made the purchase of Instagram for a billion dollars - Instagram Sold To Facebook.

Today all important media and also blogs are mirroring and also publishing pages as well as pages regarding the deal, whether it is monetary facets, marketing methods for both companies and also the feasible following developments in Palo Alto's mobile and also social media network industry ...

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


Instagram Sold To Facebook


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

After Mark Zuckerberg's official news last evening on his Facebook profile, thousands of remarks showed up. Not just in Twitter yet In Instagram also. For day-to-day Instagramers like us, the Instagram Application has properly become our main communication tool. A location where we can share more than merely pics, yet our feelings, belief and also our viewpoints too.

The other day, our @Igers pic discussing the "Facebook bargain" made it to the Popular Page, not a surprises there ...

As founder of Instagramers, the main fan network of the Instagram App worldwide, needless to say that my phone was hot with activity last night. Mentions, questions, questions ... I am probably one of the initial Iger obtaining grievances every day, as it should be!

Many individuals are asking me today what will happen following so I decided to compose this article.

The curious feature of this whole story and also our Instagram customers experience is that we seem to behave differently depending on the social networks we make use of.

-- Most of us are deeply entailed with the Instagram Application itself and even state to be addicted. There is a solid sensation of stickyness with Instagram's expanding area. A genuine feeling of becoming part of it via the community. That's why we likewise caught on to exactly what totals up to an unique fear of Android' s attack into the Instagram globe, we fear that it could destroy our best little globe

-- Most of us have really no suggestion of that has our pictures rights and which third party could utilize it (like in Facebook )

-- Everybody 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.

-- Inning accordance with a current study, approximately 12.5% of the pictures submitted to Twitter could be from Instagram.

-- Our very own Instagramers Network of greater than 270 neighborhood groups globally is organized around Facebook Profiles as well as we have a private group of over 200 "ManIgers" arranging events, instawalks, events, sharing suggestions, offering tips ...

So why are we so frightened of Facebook?

As Web individuals we won our independence and also freedom in our selections. We do not intend to depend on institutions or companies any longer. Instagram until today was like a tiny "family" made up by a few young people that developed an incredible application and transformed our lives ... They used to respond to personally via the helpdesk center, @Josh worked up on Sunday to release "The week on Instagram" on their blog as well as there was a real synergy in between customers and also proprietors of the application therefore normally, we are left questioning exactly what will happen now.

In a pic I posted yesterday in @Igers Profile on Instagram (see right here in the ideal side) I received more than 220 negative remarks concerning the purchase. There is no doubt that some individuals are actually disturbed might think their rights will not be appreciated and that it will probably smell organisation and marketing everywhere.

But we have to be aware that our favored app could just survive if there is a practical business version behind.

I would certainly wrap up that Facebook currently has a billion individuals which they are most definitely not seeking for 30 million Instagram individuals to improve their member rankings. Never. Most of us are already Facebookers and Mark currently has all our individual info. In addition, Zuckerberg has actually not shown any type of curious about merging both Brands and Services (at least for the moment). He recognizes we don't act similarly in each social media platform we come from and that we act in different ways relying on our inspirations. Merging both platforms under the Facebook umbrella would certainly provoke a large migration to various other photo-sharing apps like Eye' em or Picplz.

I actually do assume this bargain is more an inquiry of strategy as well as maintaining Google and also other competitors at bay (Google had actually just recently shown rate of interest for IG). I directly assumed that Instagramwould fit better with Twitter. It made more feeling to me however it's appears that Jack Dorsey is truly pleased with his Instagram Shares value today as he was one of the first round funding fund investor.

I believe that (for the very least a few months, maybe a year ...) there will certainly be no vital modifications in our Instagram App and that in any case, it is worthless to try to intend further compared to that.

A lot more the one million Androiders signed up recently and also nothing truly happened. So why should we be terrified of Facebook this time?