Instagram

http://www.buzzfeed.com/julianbrand/look-at-this-instagram-6eof

I'm AHHHHH_HAAAAAA

ahhh
wondered who that was ;)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/

The NYTimes story today says under the new policy you can be featured in advertisements without your knowledge or consent.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/what-instagrams-new-terms-of-service-mean-for-you/?ref=business

looks for delete button

I deleted my Facebook months ago, I get the feeling my data is less useful to them without the other deets to go with it..

Ha, I suppose now a few more people will have become aware that Facebook is evil.

Woah shocking.

I find this much less off putting than when Twitter stopped the API between Instagram and itself.

Hopefully I'll feature in an advert for Matey bath bubbles but other than that I don't care.

just deleted my Instagram, Faceache to follow - I've fucking had it with these cunts

just deleted my Instagram, Faceache to follow - I've fucking had it with these cunts

Was just thinking the same thing actually.

Bye bye instagram. Shame you got greedy. Now see how the new Android Flickr app works

I've reinstalled Path. Always liked that you could share vids and music with it..

Closed or as they call it, 'deactivated' my Facebook a few weeks ago but I didn't delete any images etc before doing so.

Just logged back in (it tells you you can do this when you de-activate) and right enough, all my images were there, all my posts, all my info and likes and groups etc just as before.

Just spent half hour deleting everything more thoroughly.

Instagram I'm no so sure about. I'm probably as keen on it as I was on facebook a year or two ago.

I think this whole move towards images being used without payment etc is pretty inevitable and unstoppable. I have a degree in photography but have resigned myself to that fact that I'll probably never make any more money from it. Luckily though I can still do it for enjoyment and Instagram is a semi large part of that enjoyment for me right now.

At least with Instagram it's just your images and not personal info like with facebook. Or maybe I'm being naive.

It's your photos being used in adverts without your say-so and without any payment to you. Anyone who agrees to that is a mug of the first water.
It all gives the lie to the notion that social media sites are about sharing and keeping in touch, connecting, building communities and other such whimsical bollocks. They are rapacious companies determined to build as close to monopolies as they can with no regard for their users' privacy or preferences and with the sole aim of making a few people very rich. Any social good that has come from them has been an incidental side-effect.

It's your photos being used in adverts without your say-so and without any payment to you. Anyone who agrees to that is a mug of the first water.

Whinge about the payment issue all you want, it ain't gonna stop things heading in that direction.

I used to get pissy about it too and tell as many people as I could that they were being ripped off but then I realised, what's the point. I can tell what, 50 people? 100? Even if I tell a thousand people and they change their ways, Instagram had (reportedly) 300million users in October which takes pissing in the wind to new levels.

Anyway, every time Facebook etc do a T&C update there's outrage about all the photographers who are going to be stiffed out of a payment, doesn't anyone take photos because they enjoy it anymore?

I'm probably alone in this but I'm not too sure how fussed I'd be if something I posted to Instagram was used commercially and I didn't get payment. The only thing I can imagine really pissing me off would be if they took my image and made out like someone else (probably a male model with less creativity in his whole body than I have in my pinky but with a strong jawline and perfect cheekbones) took it. Maybe that's because photography isn't how I make a living though. But then, what percentage of Instagram users are pro photographers?

+lots to your next bit though.

It all gives the lie to the notion that social media sites are about sharing and keeping in touch, connecting, building communities and other such whimsical bollocks. They are rapacious companies determined to build as close to monopolies as they can with no regard for their users' privacy or preferences and with the sole aim of making a few people very rich. Any social good that has come from them has been an incidental side-effect.

http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-were-listening

Instagram users own their content and Instagram does not claim any ownership rights over your photos. Nothing about this has changed. We respect that there are creative artists and hobbyists alike that pour their heart into creating beautiful photos, and we respect that your photos are your photos. Period.

I imagine that if they'd said they were updating the Ts & Cs and just reprinted the ones that everyone agreed to when they signed up (or ticked the box to say they did anyway) there'd stilll be folk whinging.

Just started following Quartere via de_souz, thanks bro/babe

I'm AHHHHH_HAAAAAA

I'm now ah_hatch

Bit late here, and I know it's only a cartoon, but this really isn't a great analogy. Maybe if his 'things' were his own drawings and Chad said he was going to start submitting scans of them to stock image sites.

http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-were-listening

So what's the story
Instagram good or bad?

I closed my account and miss it

Instagram good, far as I can tell. Backtracking was backtracked...

cyclodunc
joetenderloin
Alkali1
Cazak Stan
erikjonsson
spensirp - pictures of dogs, bikes and food.
Deathtrackncl - Newcastle fixed gear and all that jazz
Mechamorgan - really dull stuff
nosenseneeded - some graphic design and 'kooky' things
de_souz - mostly bikes, with music, beer, coffee and random stuff...
manda_brot - mainly bikes, travels, food. Sometimes - architecture, design, coffee
jake__brown - (that is four underscores)
velodrone - bikes, beers, dogs, music stuff
hatapota - bikes, beer, my face, oscar pistorius
mrlandslide - bikes, polo, wildlife, pork scratchings
jbwilliamz - bikes, beers, travel, reseeding hairline & the odd calf vain.
7upbitch - its totally amazing you should follow it
gashspit - shit photos of cats
malaysianz - bikes and shiz
hellomiles- a bit of everything
sumocycles - all kinds of shit
tom15xw - bike bits and random shit interspersed with random drunk uploads
poppatoppa - randomness, baby Isla Moo and my Spin King Clothing work.
shinkuu_kiss - pictures that reveal how empty my life is apart from playing with bikes
Apollo_0
Scoot - art school life
umop_3pisdn, riding and general life
vonstarnberg - london, dicking around at work and some side boob.

kagaruya
cyclodunc
joetenderloin
Alkali1
Cazak Stan
erikjonsson
spensirp - pictures of dogs, bikes and food.
Deathtrackncl - Newcastle fixed gear and all that jazz
Mechamorgan - really dull stuff
nosenseneeded - some graphic design and 'kooky' things
de_souz - mostly bikes, with music, beer, coffee and random stuff...
manda_brot - mainly bikes, travels, food. Sometimes - architecture, design, coffee
jake__brown - (that is four underscores)
velodrone - bikes, beers, dogs, music stuff
hatapota - bikes, beer, my face, oscar pistorius
mrlandslide - bikes, polo, wildlife, pork scratchings
jbwilliamz - bikes, beers, travel, reseeding hairline & the odd calf vain.
7upbitch - its totally amazing you should follow it
gashspit - shit photos of cats
malaysianz - bikes and shiz
hellomiles- a bit of everything
sumocycles - all kinds of shit
tom15xw - bike bits and random shit interspersed with random drunk uploads
poppatoppa - randomness, baby Isla Moo and my Spin King Clothing work.
shinkuu_kiss - pictures that reveal how empty my life is apart from playing with bikes
Apollo_0
Scoot - art school life
umop_3pisdn, riding and general life
vonstarnberg - london, dicking around at work and some side boob.

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