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Facebook Makes Moves On Instagram's Users (bloomberg.com)
Facebook is trying to get Instagram users to visit its site more often by further entwining the two services. According to Instagram user Spencer Chen, the Instagram app prompted him to check out a friend's new photo on Facebook. "Chen grabbed a screenshot and posted the notification on the internet, calling it a cry for attention by the older social network," reports Bloomberg. From the report: Instagram says what Chen experienced was a product test with a small contingent of users. Still, Instagram feeds Facebook in other ways. Last year, Facebook launched its own version of an Instagram tool called Stories, which lets people post videos that disappear within 24 hours. (The feature was initially copied from Snap Inc., a competitor.) Greenfield noticed the Facebook version became more popular once it became possible for Instagram users to post their stories in both places with the click of a button. Instagram Stories' 400 million users present a significant opportunity for Facebook's advertising business, according to Ken Sena, an analyst at Wells Fargo Securities. Instagram is on track to provide Facebook with $20 billion in revenue by 2020, about a quarter of Facebook's total, he wrote to investors. And cross-posting could help Facebook's video ambitions.
Hopefully their attempts at integration result in them ruining both services to the point that people go elsewhere. I recall a fairly large revolt when Google tried to shackle YouTube users with their own social network, although I don't think anyone really used that social network.
However, I suspect that it doesn't really matter what they do. The next generation is going to want to find a new social network precisely so they can get the fuck away from their parents, teachers, and relatives. It doesn't matter if it's better or worse, every new generation doesn't want to keep listening to their father's rock and roll.
Pretty sure Instagram users are crying for attention anyway. So whatâ(TM)s up with this Chen guy complaining that the services want to merge.
Facebook gone. A few more people to ditch on Messenger and on Whatsapp then goodbye!
In the end, Facebook only lives off of people's worst ways (ego, group think, dependencies, etc).
Don't be a dumb fuck
Take your life back.
Fuck Fuckerberg.
Stop using FuckBook.
Fuck ALL social media. The core principal itself is unhealthy. While humans are social creatures, people forget that needing to switch off and spend time alone is equally as important. We're not built to be connected to each other all day, every day, we're not a hive-mind. The whole concept of social media runs counter to our biological need to spend time away from other people and recharge. Sure you can log out and do other things for a bit, but that social media tendril keeps you lassoed in. Each post, a small part of you always available to be dinged and spoken to and questioned, and your phone there prod you with push notifications each time. Fraying your nerves, one cheerful *ding!* at a time.
Switch off social media and join a book club.
Currently being downvoted to oblivion elsewhere for saying this in the last hour, but fuck Facebook, fuck Twitter. Shut them down immediately, and without question. For the greater good. Sorry if you feel like you are a 'responsible user' but the vast majority of the users are not. And I can do without them pissing in my Cornflakes anymore.
Boo hoo. Stop trying to impose your will upon others.
"... like a bitch." ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Tinder has links to Spotify too, so what. How is that news?
There, I fixed it for you.
It's a shame Facebook gobbled up Instagram. I wouldn't expect less from Zuckerberg's horrid business.
..because I use a desktop computer
To me, it's totally useless
I don't understand why it's so popular
I don't have Facebook, but use Instagram's account to log in.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
FWIW, I've been seeing the 'Friend Posted A Facebook Photo' notification on the 'heart' page for at least a few weeks now. Funny since I refuse to load the app on mobile devices (only ever visiting it in my desktop browser.)
No, you!
Yep. Why bother talking someone off a bridge if they're just gonna play victim about it.
Facebook and Twitter are dead. I no longer see them on job applications, and no links to them on LinkedIn and if you look up and view many of these applicants accounts you see no new content for a year or longer. Effectively these accounts are dead. I had about 1000 friends, family, etc on FB and Twitter and now-a-days I only have about 150 everyone had deleted or suspended their accounts. No wonder FB wants people on Instagram to look at FB.
I really think that gun control, public health, welfare for cripples and elders, are all more important than limiting access to social networks.
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
InstaNuisance!