Today all important media as well as blog sites are reflecting and also releasing pages and also pages regarding the deal, whether it is financial aspects, marketing strategies for both business and also the possible next developments in Palo Alto's mobile and social media market ...
If I was a Hollywood flick producer, I would have named the motion picture a Billion Buck Baby ...
Facebook Acquires Instagram
Yet what does it really mean for users and Instagramers like us?
After Mark Zuckerberg's main announcement last night on his Facebook profile, thousands of remarks showed up. Not only in Twitter however In Instagram too. For day-to-day Instagramers like us, the Instagram App has effectively transformeded into our major communication device. An area where we could share greater than merely pictures, yet our sensations, ideology and also our point of views as well.
The other day, our @Igers pic mentioning the "Facebook bargain" made it to the Popular Page, not a surprises there ...
As owner of Instagramers, the major fan network of the Instagram App around the world, needless to say that my phone was hot with task last evening. Mentions, concerns, doubts ... I am probably one of the initial Iger obtaining complaints every single day, as it must be!
Lots of people are asking me today what will certainly occur following so I determined to create this message.
The curious thing about this whole story as well as our Instagram customers experience is that we appear to act in different ways relying on the social media networks we use.
-- A lot of us are deeply involved with the Instagram Application itself and even proclaim to be addicted. There is a strong feeling of stickyness with Instagram's growing community. An actual sensation of becoming part of it with the area. That's why we likewise caught on to what amounts to a special worry of Android' s incursion right into the Instagram globe, we fear that it could ruin our excellent little world
-- A lot of us have really no suggestion of who owns our images civil liberties as well as which 3rd party might use it (like in Facebook )
-- All of us have Facebook account.
-- A significant part of our Instagram Pics are daily and normally shared to our very own Facebook wall surfaces as well as profiles.
-- Inning accordance with a current study, up to 12.5% of the pictures submitted to Twitter could be from Instagram.
-- Our own Instagramers Network of more than 270 regional teams globally is arranged around Facebook Profiles and we have a private team of over 200 "ManIgers" organizing occasions, instawalks, events, sharing suggestions, offering pointers ...
So why are we so frightened of Facebook?
As Web customers we won our independence and also autonomy in our selections. We do not intend to count on organizations or companies anymore. Instagram till today resembled a little "family" composed by a couple of young people that developed an amazing app and also altered our lives ... They made use of to respond to personally with the helpdesk facility, @Josh developed on Sunday to release "The week on Instagram" on their blog site and there was an actual synergy in between users and also owners of the application therefore naturally, we are left wondering what will certainly take place currently.
In a picture I uploaded yesterday in @Igers Profile on Instagram (see here in the right side) I obtained more than 220 negative remarks about the acquisition. There is no question that some individuals are truly upset could assume their rights will not be respected and that it will possibly smell service and marketing all over.
However we have to be aware that our favored application could only subsist if there is a practical company version behind.
I would certainly conclude that Facebook already has a billion individuals and that they are definitely not seeking for 30 million Instagram individuals to boost their member ranks. Not at all. A lot of us are currently Facebookers and Mark currently has all our personal details. Additionally, Zuckerberg has actually not demonstrated any thinking about merging both Brands and Providers (at least for the moment). He recognizes we don't act similarly in each social media platform we belong to and that we act in a different way depending on our motivations. Merging the two platforms under the Facebook umbrella would provoke a large migration to other photo-sharing applications like Eye' em or Picplz.
I actually do believe this deal is extra a concern of approach and also keeping Google as well as other competitors away (Google had actually just recently shown rate of interest for IG). I personally assumed that Instagramwould fit better with Twitter. It made more feeling to me however it's appears that Jack Dorsey is really satisfied with his Instagram Shares value today as he was just one of the first round capital fund investor.
I believe that (for the very least a few months, perhaps a year ...) there will be no important modifications in our Instagram Application which all the same, it is useless to attempt to intend even more compared to that.
A lot more the one million Androiders signed up recently as well as nothing really took place. So why should we be scared of Facebook this moment?