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Your take on this Instagram/FB article?

I've read about this change in a few places. I honestly cannot fathom how it is legal!! Also, do they think there isn't going to be user outcry about it?!? Nobody wants their personal photos sold without their consent for Facebook's profit. It's asinine.
 
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I won't delete my account. I kinda hate when things like this come out. It creates a mass hysteria of sorts. The new TOS doesn't go into effect until Jan. 16th so I would say give it a week or two and see how IG handles all the backlash. I have hope that they will change it again.
 
On one hand, if you send a photo off into the internet, what happens to if after that is really anyone's guess. Anyone who thinks that there is real privacy on the internet will probably have a very rude awakening at some point. On the other hand, there are so many problems associated with this new TOS -- you're turning your photos over to Instagram, so they can use them any way they like, not tell you that they're using them, not pay you for them, and telling you that you can't sue them if they do use the photo/sell the photo - but oh, by the way - if there's something wrong with the content of your photo (libelous, etc) - and we use it, and there are ramifications - that's on you. If I were a professional photographer, posting really good work, I'd be very very worried about these change, basically turning Instagram into a free i-Stock. But, the bottomline is, for a hobbyist photographer like me, what are the odds of them using one of my crappy photos of my dog, or my shot of my coffee mug - do I really have worries? Probably not.

But on the other hand, the whole motivation behind the changes really bothers me - the monetization of what was once a model for the best of internet sharing - for the love of photography, and communicating stories through photographs, is really disappointing, disheartening.

So, I'm not deleting my Instagram stream just yet - the changes don't go into effect until after the New Year, and there still could be changes made to the TOS to make it more tenable. This may just be the first round - we'll see.
 
I agree to some extent with Brynn. But I don't have alot of faith that much will change. It's their App & TOS, and like Facebook, they'll appease but in the end if you put it out there (interwebs) and agree to their TOS then its pretty much a given that it becomes theirs as well.
 
I am just glad I didn't sign up with them yet and I won't be signing up with them ever. Just another reason I am so glad I gave up Facebook a long time ago! Even if my photos were crappy most of what I would have been uploading is my children and it's my job to protect them from people like this. I would hate to think that a big, yucky company like Facebook had the rights to do whatever they wanted with those photos.
 
I am not deleting my account. They are MORE than welcome to my pictures of my jeans, nails, feet, purses. I post my family on there too but I can always do that via my phone instead until they throw this new TOU in the trash LOL
 
I would like to know how a resort in Hawaii is going to use those tiny Instagram photos in a print campaign for their property.
 
i was thinking the same thing peppermint - they are not print quality by any means.
 
I'm going to wait and see what happens before Jan 16th.
I may delete some photos. And maybe all new IG photos I upload will be of cat or dog poop, ha ha.
 
that is a very good point that I hadn't fully considered Peppermint! Given the lack of quality/size of these images, what exactly IS the intention through this TOS change? :whistle
 
I think the ads they're talking about are pop up ads - like the kind you see In your Facebook sidebar, not big print spreads. Apparently, the ads are also going to be in the photo stream - and not actually easily distinguishable as ads.
 
As a self-proclaimed Instagram Addict, my 1st reaction was "what the heck?!?!?!, surely they can't do that, can they???" ... but the more I've thought about it, the more I agree with Brynn, Wendy, Christine, Peppermint ... heck, most of the posts here! I'm not going to be deleting my account (yet!) and I've always been mindful of what I upload anyway. I wouldn't upload ANYTHING to ANY site on the internet if I wasn't comfortable with people seeing it.

I understand people's concerns though, especially where children are involved.
 
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I think the ads they're talking about are pop up ads - like the kind you see In your Facebook sidebar, not
that's what I thought, too. But I wish IG would spell it out a bit better. Maybe they could answer some of the general public's questions about this. :)
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I'm biding my time. I try not to be too too reactionary. But on the other hand I've read the TOS, many articles about it from reputable sources and most everyone is coming out with the analysis that IG can "sell" your photos or at the very least has license to do with them what they will..except for that article Angie shared which basically just says "they always could" LOL. In any case, I think a little uproar over privacy and TOS isn't a bad thing as social media..FB in particular keeps pushing that envelope...hopefully this will simmer down, they will modify a couple things and we can all remain happy Instagrammers. If not, I do have concerns...on principle about the use of images. We shall see...
 
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I'll have to say though, this is on top of Instagram taking away the ability to view Instagram photos inside Twitter last week. That was NOT a good development in my book. The extra click to go to another page to view the photo is very annoying.
 
it was never about the photos, it's about the data mining. if you ask me (and i am by no means any kind of expert on the matter lol) they knew exactly what they were doing and expected this outcry. it's like a red herring to distract people from the fact that they also added this to the new terms:

"We may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files, and device identifiers and location data with organizations that help us provide the service to you... [and] third-party advertising partners."

FB already has such terms in place so they probably just had to add that to the IG terms so that they can integrate the two sites better

that's where the BIG money is for these people - selling your location, your interests, etc. to the advertisers. and that is the part that really burns me! it enrages me to think that some greedy, corporate SOB is riding around in a porsche somewhere thanks to predatorial and underhanded business tactics that allowed him to sell my private information to someone else! :furious

conspiracy-theorist rant over lol
 
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