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Facebook Makes Moves On Instagram's Users (bloomberg.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the we-knew-this-day-would-come dept.

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.

29 comments

  1. Nope. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Fuck Facebook.

    hell, Fuck Instagram, too. Fuck Zuck.

    1. Re:Nope. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      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.

    2. Re:Nope. by Colourspace · · Score: 2

      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.

    3. Re: Nope. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Boo hoo. Stop trying to impose your will upon others.

    4. Re: Nope. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, you!

    5. Re: Nope. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yep. Why bother talking someone off a bridge if they're just gonna play victim about it.

    6. Re:Nope. by lucasnate1 · · Score: 0

      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
  2. Ruining them both by alvinrod · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Ruining them both by Excelcia · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Hopefully their attempts at integration result in them ruining both services

      How much more intrinsically awful do they have to be to make people go elsewhere?

      I created a Facebook account a month or so ago in order to advertise a found stray cat. I adjusted my settings at least a half a dozen times to try and stem the flood of emails and notifications. Come see what the lost and found pet group is doing. We bet you know this person, friend them. Look at this photo, tag yourself in it. On and on and on. The longer you don't log in, the more desperate they get. Every time I get my settings changed to preclude that type of contact, something "new" shows up for the first time.

      In a way you have to admire the creativity of their programmers to find ways to justify contacting you, to find ways to just get you to drink the kool-aid. It was with some great relief that I actually found the cat's owners and could get myself back off Facebook.

      I tried to come up with some redeeming aspect of Facebook during my stint there. In the end, it was an ad on Kijiji that located the cat's owners, so there wasn't even that in Facebook's favour. I honestly tried, but I can't think of anything good to come out of the platform that isn't available more safely and less invsasively somewhere else.

    2. Re:Ruining them both by KiloByte · · Score: 2

      I tried to come up with some redeeming aspect of Facebook

      Well, their engineers created ZSTD and a bunch other brilliant tools. But then, without Werner von Braun we wouldn't have spaceflight, and his compatriots made some good advances in chemistry and so on...

      --
      The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
    3. Re: Ruining them both by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In the end, it was an ad on Kijiji

      Found the Canandian.

      Source: also Canadian. Kijiji is not available outside of Canada. Its called eBay Classifieds in the US.

    4. Re:Ruining them both by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How much more intrinsically awful do they have to be to make people go elsewhere?

      I don't know about anyone else but since Facebook broke the friend finder functionality (the find friends tab); I have no reason to use it anymore.

  3. Cry for attention? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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.

  4. Almost free of any Facebook! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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).

  5. It's a TRAP! Don't be a dumb fuck! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't be a dumb fuck

    Take your life back.

    Fuck Fuckerberg.

    Stop using FuckBook.

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  7. How exactly did they move on them? by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 3, Funny

    "... like a bitch." ;)

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    Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
    1. Re: How exactly did they move on them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Came for âoelike a bitchâ. Was not disappointed.

  8. Tinder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Tinder has links to Spotify too, so what. How is that news?

  9. InstaFaceGramBook by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There, I fixed it for you.

  10. Embrace Extend Extinguish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's a shame Facebook gobbled up Instagram. I wouldn't expect less from Zuckerberg's horrid business.

  11. Instagram hates me by MpVpRb · · Score: 2

    ..because I use a desktop computer

    To me, it's totally useless

    I don't understand why it's so popular

    1. Re:Instagram hates me by antdude · · Score: 2

      Eh? It works fine for me, but I can't upload images. I even asked in https://www.reddit.com/r/Insta... ... :(

      --
      Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
  12. Weird. by antdude · · Score: 1

    I don't have Facebook, but use Instagram's account to log in.

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    Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
  13. I've seen these for a while now.. by Vegan+Cyclist · · Score: 1

    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.)

  14. I will keep saying it by WindowsStar · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:I will keep saying it by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      I actually don't remember seeing FB mentioned in any job applications. Then again, in security it's a KO-criterion if you use it since you basically admit that don't know jack about security or at the very least don't give a fuck, so...

      --
      We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
    2. Re:I will keep saying it by WindowsStar · · Score: 1

      I think you meant the applicants don't give a f. I never put FB on my application. Just telling you what I have seen and has changed over time.

  15. Pest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    InstaNuisance!