I am so not "getting" this Instagram thing / do you guys want to look at each others pictures?

reality is a bubble

Why are the pictures people take worth so much to Facebook and Instagram?

When you post a picture on Instagram and then share it with your friends, Instagram know who your friends are, and can build up a map of who knows who. And this is worth $$$, somehow.

because Facebook and now Instagram are really just NSA fronts

its all data mining to figure out who to strip search is the bottom line

I think one way the social shit might end up looking more like a bubble is if a large and sustained campaign for privacy builds.

http://i.imgur.com/I8lwQ.jpg

was twitter ever valued at one billion dollars

facebok wants peoples pictures because people click on photos more than text updates and links, and they spend more time looking at photos

also I'm not that surprised considering Draw Something sold for like $200 million a few weeks ago

Just saw on Twitter: "Facebook buying Instagram to provide seamless integration between photos of your dinner and the people who don't want to see them."

p sure fb bought instagram so they could insert a crude drawing of a penis into everybody's pictures, good prank zuck

i mean im sure theres some kind of data mining aspect but mostly its an engagement thing. photos mean more time spent on facebook and more links followed.

was twitter ever valued at one billion dollars

― swaghand (dayo), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:02 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im sure its currently more

I think draw something was pretty similar to this in that zynga saw it as a potential large game company and just wanted to squash it

brb coding 'twitter shitter' app

was twitter ever valued at one billion dollars

― swaghand (dayo), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:02 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im sure its currently more

― lag∞n, Monday, April 9, 2012 3:03 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

7b internet says

they could have saved $200m by just playing draw something and realizing how it gets boring after like 2 days but instead they just looked at how many users it had and wrote a check

Yeah the backlash over this is p funny and extremely pointless. But yeah i suppose some people just need something to talk about.

7b tweets

A friend of mine who works in tech told me the thing about facebook increasingly being seen as "for old people" by the young and I kind of didn't believe it, but now I can totally see it becoming the AOL of tomorrow.

what was yahoo gonna get sold at back when companies still wanted to buy yahoo

that almost gives me hope for the future, kids can take down this awful company

I mean it's just the inevitable thing of it being impossible for something to stay cool and also have your mom on it.

it'll be replaced by some justin-bieber-social-network or something but still

brb coding 'twitter shitter' app

― they do do doo doo sandwiches (snoball), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Too late dawg http://www.getshitter.com/

obviously that means fb needs to branch out with exciting new hip variants like facebook: code red and facebook: baja blast

I think hating on Facebook is probably the cool thing among the young, but yeah those ppl also have to check their phone every time someone comments on a post like 10x a day.

I would love it if 29,999,997 Instagram users stopped using Instagram tomorrow in disgust, meaning that Facebook has paid $1B for 3 people's details.

btw whatever Twitter is valued at their cash flow is balls. The company I work for just ventured into the world of Twitter advertising (or "promoted products" lol) and they expect all their advertisers to be never-ending money faucets.

Too late dawg http://www.getshitter.com/

I've hardly used Twitter, so I'll probably only get two squares of paper. Better cut out the high fibre diet.

brb coding 'yourmomdefinitelywontbeondisting' app

In my case 'dis ting' is the entire internet, so wvs...

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/instagram_logo.png http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/b9e75d38827211e1989612313815112c_7.jpg

A friend of mine who works in tech told me the thing about facebook increasingly being seen as "for old people" by the young and I kind of didn't believe it, but now I can totally see it becoming the AOL of tomorrow.

― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:05 PM (2 minutes ago)

if somebody develops a useful alternative they could capitalize on this disaffection but there aren't any real competitors atm. I have some late teens/early 20s friends on FB from the local music scene, one posted that he was going back to myspace and everybody kind of laughed at him.

google couldn't pull off a viable vehicle and they were already in the catbird seat. if it does happen it will prolly come out of left field.

the buying of instagram was a great boon for graphic designers who work at tech news sites

one thing that's interesting about this is that, well, can the social giants always and forever just eat their competition? millions of people can start using something new very, very quickly...it in some ways justifies the draw something / instagram prices but you can't do that indefinitely when it's so easy to compete.

if somebody develops a useful alternative they could capitalize on this disaffection but there aren't any real competitors atm.

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:18 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

see but the thing is the next facebook isnt a facebook clone, it doesnt need to be an alternative, it just needs to be the next thing people will dick around with every day, which is why instagram was more dangerous to fb than google+

implicit in "useful alternative" is something that has legs, it obv doesn't have to (and prolly won't) be an fb clone (tho fb was not substantially diff than friendster or myspace)

stuff like instagram is a challenge to fb in terms of stealing a user's time from fb, but as a challenge to their hegemony, no

FB = nu-AOL is very apt metaphor imho

"f*** facebook goodbye" looks like a shop

stuff like instagram is a challenge to fb in terms of stealing a user's time from fb, but as a challenge to their hegemony, no

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:30 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if users dont spend time on facebook what hegemony do they have exactly

I dunno, it's like how much time ppl spend at the macaroni grill not connected to the mall vs in the mall itself, it's still most likely a 80/20 split, and macaroni grill is never going to BE the mall

also hipstamatic 4 lyfe, stupid name or no

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/white_mountains.jpg

and according to my palm pilot anybody can be nu-AOL

How many 'fuck facebook!' posts are going to be posted on facebook today?

what were your guys' fav aol dailup noises

I dunno, it's like how much time ppl spend at the macaroni grill not connected to the mall vs in the mall itself, it's still most likely a 80/20 split, and macaroni grill is never going to BE the mall

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, April 9, 2012 3:45 PM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if instagram steals facebooks photos and twitter steals their status updates and foursquare takes location and blah blah etc soon theres nothing people use facebook for anymore and the mall sits defunct and forlorn

its ironic that fb has spent all this energy trying to be everything to everyone when people seem more n more happy to use diff services for each thing, sometimes they route that stuff through fb but increasingly not so much

malls are also dying btw

because of the internet... lol

that internet will never kill the macaroni grill

^^lyrics to my new song