Seriously, Instagram?

by Frop • 18 Dec 2012, 17:39 • Journals
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20767537

This just seems like a great move to kill your product. I'm not sure which monetising strategies revolve around alienating your userbase, but this clearly is one of them. I'm expecting a 180 degree turn though once they went through all the backlash.

Which people actually come up with this kind of shit? I don't think there's a single person on this globe familiar with Instagram who doesn't think this is the worst idea of the year (with regards to making money off people on the internet).
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Loekino 18 Dec 2012, 17:43
[img]hey frop alles frop//??[/img]
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DrLagAlot 18 Dec 2012, 17:47
It belongs to google anyway, what a surprise ":D"
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Kenzi 18 Dec 2012, 18:02
Facebook belongs to Google? wat
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DrLagAlot 18 Dec 2012, 18:27
Instagramm belongs to google
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Kenzi 18 Dec 2012, 18:28
QuoteFacebook's photo-sharing site Instagram

Fucking bell end
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DrLagAlot 18 Dec 2012, 20:13
Just saw that you are right, I still remember they were in serious talk with google though
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Kenzi 18 Dec 2012, 20:15
Idiot
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Loekino 18 Dec 2012, 21:42
lol he doesnt even know that pffrrtt apple > mac
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nicon 18 Dec 2012, 20:39
jump off the alps faggot
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Thomm 18 Dec 2012, 18:12
Huge whine world wide, company still does it, people continue using it.

It's not like anybody would really even want peoples shitty pictures about cats and trees.

There are several free sites to make your pictures look old & shittier, use them instead if you feel that your pictures will be used somewhere and you won't earn money with them.
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Frop 18 Dec 2012, 18:33
I'm sure there are still some people left who are slightly better photographers than the rest and I'm sure they wouldn't like their perfect shot ending up in an advert under anyone's but your own copyright.
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wsk 18 Dec 2012, 18:50
they're gonna use userpictures to advertise instagram itself. in what kind of other advertising would you use those small-shitty-ass-quality pictures?
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Thomm 18 Dec 2012, 18:51
JEJ! Manuel to the rescue! Defend my honor from that abusive dutchie!
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wsk 18 Dec 2012, 18:53
Tommi! I am as neutral as switzerland!
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PaRzi 18 Dec 2012, 19:00
Liar. Go take some pictures of your food.... MWAHAHAHA!
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wsk 18 Dec 2012, 19:03
trololol!
I dont have anything to eat :((
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PaRzi 18 Dec 2012, 19:06
Why are you not online or on any messengers???
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wsk 18 Dec 2012, 19:07
war online war keiner da :D komm on!
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Frop 18 Dec 2012, 19:30
Your allies prove weak. Provide me a real challenge.
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Thomm 18 Dec 2012, 19:57
/me releases Unfo. It is super-retarded!

I dare you to reply to him something.
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Frop 18 Dec 2012, 19:24
Quotegiving it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification

This bit is even in the first bolded paragraph of the article I linked. You know, like a tl;dr for lazy people.
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wsk 18 Dec 2012, 19:27
yeah I've read it - yet I dont think BMW is gonna use pictures of my food in 50x50 pixels in their upcoming tv spots.
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Frop 18 Dec 2012, 19:33
Remember that plane landing on the Hudson River? I'm pretty sure the guy who made the first picture threw it on the web with something like Instagram and subsequently made some nice pocket money selling it to news agencies.

I'm no legal expert, but I wouldn't be surprised if that would end up a tad different with their new policies. I'm sure you can guess where the money will go instead.
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wsk 18 Dec 2012, 19:36
yeah well that could happen. then instagram users should keep in mind not to upload the pictures of planecrashes ;)
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Frop 18 Dec 2012, 19:41
I think you underestimate how much money there is to be made from being able to sell all those pictures (past, present and future) without having to bother with the people who made them. We're taking pictures 24/7 around the entire globe.
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wsk 18 Dec 2012, 19:55
I dont. I just dont see how it would harm the average instagram user (unless they use your very personal pictures like the face etc.) cause normal people wont sell their pictures to anyone cause they dont even know how to. besides that the resolution wont even make it possible to like print the pictures in a bigger size than a stamp.
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unforgiven 18 Dec 2012, 18:36
I don t know what instagram is
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Frop 18 Dec 2012, 18:40
I bet you can't wait to find out after reading this journal!
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unforgiven 18 Dec 2012, 18:56
I understand is a program to modify pictures , or maybe I read wrong
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Kenzi 18 Dec 2012, 19:25
Gypsies don't have money to buy a smartphone :D
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Frop 18 Dec 2012, 19:27
Why are you even replying to that comment? Jesus.
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unforgiven 18 Dec 2012, 20:21
Why you even allow that racist comment? Jesus.
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Xo 18 Dec 2012, 21:28
hai frop! :D
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embarrassed 18 Dec 2012, 21:34
You had to break your streak with the Far Cry review :(
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Loekino 18 Dec 2012, 21:46
i am kinda upset with the nasty ass pictures i see coming by on crossfire, bring back the random chicks where did that true saying "tits or gtfo" go?

is all we have left a borderline negro, multiple sclerose nektaz, some random east block country guy and a superB paki?

:'(
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kARDONNNNN 19 Dec 2012, 00:01
didn't care that facebook could see open tabs or other shit like that, but to take my dic picks and sell them to hoes for masturbation money is too damn far.
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