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  • December 18, 2012 at 6:18 pm #912580
    Certifried
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    http://wtop.com/628/3162452/Opaque-Instagram-ad-policy-change-riles-users

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    The updated terms of service say users agree that their photos could be used “in connection with paid or sponsored content.” The current terms say the service can place ads “on, about or in conjunction with your Content.”

    Glad I don’t use instagram, but if I did, here’s my answer to the issue (feel free to use as necessary):

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    003-A by certifried, on Flickr

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  • December 18, 2012 at 6:22 pm #957876
    jrenaut
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    I deleted my Instagram account yesterday, though it was more in response to their termination of the good Twitter integration rather than the ad policies. Twitter made Instagram, and then Facebook bought them, and no more Twitter. I understand, but f that.

    December 18, 2012 at 6:35 pm #957879
    ShawnoftheDread
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    I never understood the appeal of instagram. Everyone spent years pining for ever-increasing pixels and quality for their camera phones, only to glom onto a program designed to ensure their pics looked like 1975 polaroids.

    December 18, 2012 at 6:52 pm #957885
    mstone
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    @ShawnoftheDread 38378 wrote:

    I never understood the appeal of instagram. Everyone spent years pining for ever-increasing pixels and quality for their camera phones, only to glom onto a program designed to ensure their pics looked like 1975 polaroids.

    it lets your pictures look different, just like everyone else’s

    December 18, 2012 at 6:53 pm #957886
    Mark Blacknell
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    @Certifried 38374 wrote:

    http://wtop.com/628/3162452/Opaque-Instagram-ad-policy-change-riles-users

    Glad I don’t use instagram, but if I did, here’s my answer to the issue (feel free to use as necessary):

    8285110518_4ef189a608_z.jpg
    003-A by certifried, on Flickr

    Man, kinda harsh on your kid, no? Is he a Yankees fan or something?

    December 18, 2012 at 7:10 pm #957890
    jrenaut
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    My grandfather was a photographer, and somewhere I have his rules of photography. One of his rules, and I’m reciting from memory here, so it’s probably not verbatim, was “Don’t use a camera that takes square pictures. No one likes square pictures. Cameras that take square pictures are for people too lazy to turn the camera on its side”.

    I think part of the appeal of Instagram is that it takes what are often mediocre cameraphone pictures, both in a quality-of-pixels and quality-of-photographer sense, and often turns them into something interesting. Or else lowers expectations until the photo already meets them? Not sure.

    December 18, 2012 at 7:15 pm #957891
    rcannon100
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    I just ripped down all my photos from Facebook (instagram). Done with that. FB is rapidly becoming a wasteland…. The only thing I really see in the timeline are posts from orgs from their social media policy (like, er, Bike Arlington, and er, Arlington). But posts from “friends”…. most people have gone elsewhere.

    December 18, 2012 at 7:41 pm #957898
    Tim Kelley
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    If Facebook wants to use another photo of me riding my bike to market to my friends, should I really care? I could see how this could be an issue if you’re a professional photographer, taking pictures at interesting events that might be desirable to sell, but should this be an issue to “regular” people posting photos of their cats and their lunch?

    December 18, 2012 at 8:01 pm #957901
    Dirt
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    @Tim Kelley 38399 wrote:

    If Facebook wants to use another photo of me riding my bike to market to my friends, should I really care? I could see how this could be an issue if you’re a professional photographer, taking pictures at interesting events that might be desirable to sell, but should this be an issue to “regular” people posting photos of their cats and their lunch?

    V is for Victory. :D

    December 18, 2012 at 8:22 pm #957904
    Tim Kelley
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    @Dirt 38402 wrote:

    V is for Victory. :D

    YES! Actually, I think I’d prefer if Facebook used that photo to market to my friends!

    December 18, 2012 at 10:52 pm #957924
    jrenaut
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    They’re responding to the criticism, and responding well, though I’m not sure it isn’t too late. Though they don’t mention the breakup with Twitter, which I doubt they can do anything about.

    December 19, 2012 at 4:47 am #957947
    PeteD
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    @ShawnoftheDread 38378 wrote:

    I never understood the appeal of instagram. Everyone spent years pining for ever-increasing pixels and quality for their camera phones, only to glom onto a program designed to ensure their pics looked like 1975 polaroids.

    It’s funny, I’m going through scanning old photos from my mom’s old albums and working with software to remove the effects that people seem to overuse on Instagram.

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