I’m keeping my Instagram account

#1

Post by gregmeyer » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 11:59 PM UTC

I’m keeping my Instagram account
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Re: I’m keeping my Instagram account

#2

Post by rganguly » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 1:07 AM UTC

Nice take on this, I think the outrage is a bit overblown here and seems to have taken on an angry mob with pitchforks mentality.

Re: I’m keeping my Instagram account

#3

Post by gregmeyer » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 1:16 AM UTC

rganguly wrote: post #2

Nice take on this, I think the outrage is a bit overblown here and seems to have taken on an angry mob with pitchforks mentality.

Thanks - there are lots of great options out there, and not many that already have 100m users to share with ;)

Re: I’m keeping my Instagram account

#4

Post by adamloving » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 1:24 AM UTC

I think my usage will shift to Flickr as Instagram becomes more integrated with Facebook.

Re: I’m keeping my Instagram account

#5

Post by aseemb » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 1:49 AM UTC

How does this affect Instagram accounts that are set to 'private'? I know a lot of people that only use the app for photo filtering and cropping instead of the sharing aspect.

Re: I’m keeping my Instagram account

#6

Post by tomflack » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 2:18 AM UTC

This is crap.

> I’m not sure what your assumption was all along when you started using this free service. My assumption was that when I posted the information to Instagram’s servers that I was trading utility

> for control (because I pay nothing for this service, I expect that it could go away at any moment.)

Yeah, we did trade utility for control - but now the control part of the bargain has changed, and that is why people are angry. It was predictable, but that doesn't make people's sense of betrayal any less real.

Re: I’m keeping my Instagram account

#7

Post by error » Wed, Dec 19, 2012, 9:27 AM UTC

Instagram new policy: You are not our customers, you are the cattle we drive to market and auction off to the highest bidder. Enjoy your feed and keep producing the milk.

The guy seems to understand that his just a cattle and he likes that or even if he doesn't like it he chooses to use the service because the feed is good, but not every one likes to be a cattle.

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