Shopping coming to Instagram
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Shopping coming to Instagram
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Re: Shopping coming to Instagram
#2Hey HN! I want to hear the arguments as to why this is or isn't a positive development for society. Not whether or not it's the right business decision, or whether or not they should have the right to do it.
Any thoughts?
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#4Hey HN! I want to hear the arguments as to why this is or isn't a positive development for society. Not whether or not it's the right business decision, or whether or not they should have the right to do it. Any thoughts?
I think this is great for the economy. It's one more venue for small businesses to get their products to the masses and it'll create jobs as these 'stores' will need to be updated and managed.
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#5See, I think it would be cool if I could do it without flipping my account to a business account, but at the same time, then I'd think Instagram runs the risk of empowering everyone the ability to assign monetary values to things quite inappropriately, at least from a cultural standpoint.
On the one hand, I like the idea of being able to pawn off a cool gadget I found.
On the other hand, I don't like the idea of seeing pricetags all over people's profiles, or worse, seeing people sell mementos or sentimental items on a social media platform so very in-my-face just to turn a quick buck.
The latter strongly outweighs the former for me, so I suppose I'm glad this appears to be limited to business accounts.
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#6Hey HN! I want to hear the arguments as to why this is or isn't a positive development for society. Not whether or not it's the right business decision, or whether or not they should have the right to do it. Any thoughts?
I think some might argue that any sort of service that gives customers more choice is a good thing, but recent research seems to be pointed in the direction that too many choices available is causing anxiety [+] (which might outweigh the utility the additional choice is providing).
Its good for Instagram, and its good for the economy. Society? More data needed. I worry its going to turn into Tinder for purchasing, and it simply greases the pipeline of purchasing things you don't need with money you don't have in the name of social status ("We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”) [++].
[+] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-tyranny-of-ch...
[+] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/21/choice-...
[+] https://www.fastcompany.com/3031364/the-future-of-work/why-h...
[++] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/25775-we-buy-things-we-don-t...
Re: Shopping coming to Instagram
#7This seems like a natural way to monetize instagram for accounts that I follow. I would take this over ads any day. If I like a business enough to follow them on instagram, then I won't mind being able to purchase something from the account.
For instance, I follow King Arthur Flour for their scrumptious baking recipes. It'd be great to be able to go straight to their online store to purchase some of their harder to find ingredients like Boiled Cider.
One thing I hope they do is make it so everybody can get in on it. Say you want to be able to sell prints of your great photos, how awesome would it be to have a built in way for customers to do so? Or have a brewery and want to sell some t-shirts?
That said... will this taint the instagram experience? Youtube feels increasingly optimized for profit-making and seems be crowding out some of the more "just-for-fun" type projects. If too much of a social media site focus on profit it becomes just another mall and less of a social setting.
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#8I think the name Instacart is already taken.
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#9I really hope Instagram or the merchants go with Apple/Android pay integration. I've gone through the hoops of image->link to shop in the profile->search for the item, only to bow out when faced with the tedium/inevitable spam of creating an account on the merchant's site.
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#10Hey HN! I want to hear the arguments as to why this is or isn't a positive development for society. Not whether or not it's the right business decision, or whether or not they should have the right to do it. Any thoughts?
you take the red pill, you read Marx, Althusser, and Adorno and your eyes are forever opened. you take the blue pill, you agree with the posts up voted above mine and go back to sleep. your choice, kid