Blame Wall Sreet for a Lot of Things, but Also for What Facebook Is Doing to Instagram
When Facebook acquired Instagram, it seemed only a matter of time until FB's relentless, market-driven push to squeeze ever more profit out of every bit of online real estate would take its toll. And that's just what happened with the announcement of new TOS and privacy policy for Instagram starting in mid-January. Not surprisingly, many users are outraged by the proposal to make their photos available to advertisers without compensation. Once again, FB proves that "Facebook privacy policy" is an oxymoron.
Facebook may be forced to back down on this, as they have in the face of public outcries in the past. But for users who abandoned Flickr for the more mobile-friendly world of Instagram, this might be an opportune time to come back home to Flickr and its new mobile app.
Flickr for the iPhone (and coming to Android) is everything their original mobile app should have been and wasn't. It's much more socially connected, with a really cool interface, and it has a nice set of filters and basic photo editing capabilities.
This was processed from one of the photos on my Camera Roll, using the Peacock filter.
Blame Wall Sreet for a Lot of Things, but Also for What Facebook Is Doing to Instagram
When Facebook acquired Instagram, it seemed only a matter of time until FB's relentless, market-driven push to squeeze ever more profit out of every bit of online real estate would take its toll. And that's just what happened with the announcement of new TOS and privacy policy for Instagram starting in mid-January. Not surprisingly, many users are outraged by the proposal to make their photos available to advertisers without compensation. Once again, FB proves that "Facebook privacy policy" is an oxymoron.
Facebook may be forced to back down on this, as they have in the face of public outcries in the past. But for users who abandoned Flickr for the more mobile-friendly world of Instagram, this might be an opportune time to come back home to Flickr and its new mobile app.
Flickr for the iPhone (and coming to Android) is everything their original mobile app should have been and wasn't. It's much more socially connected, with a really cool interface, and it has a nice set of filters and basic photo editing capabilities.
This was processed from one of the photos on my Camera Roll, using the Peacock filter.