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Introducing Photos of You

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Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Awesome. This is incredible. I have dreamed about this feature. This is the disruptive technology we need. I'm certain my 97 year old grandmother will be using Instagram now. More social. Cutting edge. Invest now people.

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Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Any tagged Photos of You are public, by default.. You can approve them first, but you have to turn that option on. This sounds like a potential privacy issue..

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Clever move.

Next one is merging Facebook accounts and Instagram accounts; and then boom, they have a clean dataset ready to merge into Facebook.

Instagram can finally be a full part of Facebook, and the Instagram that we know (and, for some of us, love) will be finally completely gone.

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Clever move. Next one is merging Facebook accounts and Instagram accounts; and then boom, they have a clean dataset ready to merge into Facebook. Instagram can finally be a full part of Facebook, and the Instagram that we know (and, for some of us, love) will be finally completely gone.

Agree. Totally agree. I think a good move for Facebook would be to keep Instagram a stand-alone dataset and app.

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All these naysayers about Facebook's malicious intentions in here, but I think this is actually a very intuitive feature for Instagram that a lot of users thought should have been a part of the app from the start. I'd be surprised if this weren't a feature that Instragram founders always intended to rollout. I don't think this is necessarily the beginning of Instagram's demise through Facebook's corruption of the app.

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Clever move. Next one is merging Facebook accounts and Instagram accounts; and then boom, they have a clean dataset ready to merge into Facebook. Instagram can finally be a full part of Facebook, and the Instagram that we know (and, for some of us, love) will be finally completely gone.

Agree. Totally agree. I think a good move for Facebook would be to keep Instagram a stand-alone dataset and app.

Why do you think it'd be a good move business-wise? I agree with you that product-wise, it'd arguably be the best thing for end users, but I don't think that's the perspective they choose to use on it.

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Is it possible for someone to explain to a rarely-social-network-site-user what Instagram actually does?

All I know is it has something to do with photos.

But you already can upload photos to various social network sites (and could already upload photos way before this whole so called social thing existed).

And marketing talk saying how great photos are (which I think people knew 100 years ago too already) doesn't really help understanding it :)

So, what does it do? :)

Re: Introducing Photos of You

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. Totally agree. I think a good move for Facebook would be to keep Instagram a stand-alone dataset and app.

Why do you think it'd be a good move business-wise? I agree with you that product-wise, it'd arguably be the best thing for end users, but I don't think that's the perspective they choose to use on it.

They have to make money somehow, but the end users are the most important. As long as they show respect to its users' privacy they deserve to make money. I'm sure they'll find more ways to combine brands and ads in the product. I just hope it'll be sufferable.
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