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While I think I agree with the premise of this article, these examples seriously undermine the argument. WhatApp because of greed? Spotify because of gluttony? Spell check because of sloth? This seems like an awfully long stretch.
you could stretch spotify into musical pleasure greed .. although .. that would be stretching it
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Instagram is one of the simplest social networks. It's twitter with a focus on picture posts. It's blogging but every post is centered around a picture. It's one thing to not want one yourself, but to be willfully ignorant about something so simple and publicly visible seems like an odd thing to feel the need to advertise.
Bizarrely I find that Twitter is better for posting pictures (they're not so low resolution and compressed, and the UI is less hostile to viewing them).
I am quite privacy conscious. I have deleted my FB account. On principle, I dislike targeted ads, user tracking, etc. BUT, I hate to admit this, the ads I get in Instagram are the most relevant I have ever gotten. I actually look forward to them, to discover new products. They are perfectly tailored to me. Dammit.
I'll be honest, I like ads that are relevant to the things I am interested in. I am no FB fan boy, but their ads are pretty good... I actually click on them. What's wrong with that?
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It's because of the amazing data Facebook and Instagram have to create anonymous targeting audiences with. Source: I spend millions on FB and IG ads per month.
Is your product that bad that you have to spend millions on ads just to get people interested in it? If I had to pay millions to shove my product in people’a faces because that’s the only way to get them to use it, I would reconsider whether my product should even exist.
I simply do not understand the attraction of Instagram. My brother posts photos on it, and the quality of the pictures is rubbish. They're small, with compression artifacts. The app itself doesn't even let you pinch to zoom without snapping back when you let go (fair enough given how low resolution the pictures are). Obviously I'm looking at this wrong - it's clearly not an app for posting photos, because it sucks at…
I've long had a theory (maybe it's not that revolutionary) that part of Instagram's success is it allowed people a free pass to be vain and show off-y. On Facebook, it was a bit stigmatized to post a picture of an expensive purchase, amazing house interior, fancy vacation, or workout picture of your physique. However, it's the entire point of Instagram. Couple that in with all the brands and other accounts of inspira…
http://charlescosta.net/2014/04/how-the-seven-deadly-sins-dr... tl;dr — Every successful social startup should bend, but not completely violate, one or more social taboos, e.g. one of the 7 deadly sins. Edit: When designing www.fwdeveryone.com, we purposely incorporated Pav's theory by building the platform around the taboo of getting involved in other people's relationships, in this case by letting people read (and…
...oh wait, that's a real thing that you did. You just didn't put the http:// in your comment to avoid self-promotion.
After reading your examples (which are a really helpful way of showing what your service does, BTW - thanks for not burying that in a video or forcing me to sign up), I can see the appeal for your service. It's Instagram for email: In exactly the way I keep every photo my phone takes backed up and organized on Google Photos, but selectively post to Instagram, I could selectively send mail on a "social email" account and keep normal transactions private. Fascinating! I suppose I have a small portfolio of emails helping some people solve problems (running/cycling tips, local routes, etc and some tech support) that I have meant to post to a blog but just never got around to it. Making that blogging automatic would be neat!
Nice idea and implementation, I apologize for mocking it! I'll definitely keep the principle in mind.
I simply do not understand the attraction of Instagram. My brother posts photos on it, and the quality of the pictures is rubbish. They're small, with compression artifacts. The app itself doesn't even let you pinch to zoom without snapping back when you let go (fair enough given how low resolution the pictures are). Obviously I'm looking at this wrong - it's clearly not an app for posting photos, because it sucks at…
Like you said, it's not an app to post photos. It's all about the feed of pictures, not the pictures themselves. It's visual communication, not art.
I am quite privacy conscious. I have deleted my FB account. On principle, I dislike targeted ads, user tracking, etc. BUT, I hate to admit this, the ads I get in Instagram are the most relevant I have ever gotten. I actually look forward to them, to discover new products. They are perfectly tailored to me. Dammit.
I never developed this intentionally, it just sort of developed.
My point is, I suppose, that I've no idea how good the advertising is on my instagram account because I really don't see the ads.
My likes on Instagram aren't shown to my followers - (I hope ) and that's the main difference which affects my behavior. Likes on instagram are cheap, like a casual double tap. On FB or LinkedIn they're expensive.
Google acquiring YouTube (good move)
Microsoft acquiring Github (good move)
Yahoo acquiring Tumblr for over a billion (bad move)
Did anybody really think that was a good idea? I personally didn't. Not now, not ever.