<story><title>Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgdesign</author><text>I&apos;m starting to realize that Instagram is not the service I thought it was. I initially thought it was Flickr with social features, but more and more it&apos;s turning into Facebook with photos.&lt;p&gt;There is zero content discoveries features, so you have no way to get new followers or find new people to follow. And the top posters are all teenage pop stars that I&apos;ve never even heard about who post completely uninteresting photos.&lt;p&gt;The more Instagram turns into Facebook, the more this opens up a spot for another company to build an actual social network around photos. Whether this will be 500px, Flickr (again), or somebody else entirely, I don&apos;t know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Smrchy</author><text>As soon as i read that FB was buying Instagram i quit and deleted my Instagram account. It was too predictable that something like this will happen.&lt;p&gt;Mark Zuckerberg is in a horrible position. I bet he would love to just build a cool and useful product. Instead he is damned to roll out all these awful money making features. And quick. Not only for his investors but also for the staff that owns FB stock.&lt;p&gt;How smooth could FB move along if their investors trusted them like they trust Jeff Bezos and his very long-term view.</text></comment>
<story><title>Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos</title><url>http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sgdesign</author><text>I&apos;m starting to realize that Instagram is not the service I thought it was. I initially thought it was Flickr with social features, but more and more it&apos;s turning into Facebook with photos.&lt;p&gt;There is zero content discoveries features, so you have no way to get new followers or find new people to follow. And the top posters are all teenage pop stars that I&apos;ve never even heard about who post completely uninteresting photos.&lt;p&gt;The more Instagram turns into Facebook, the more this opens up a spot for another company to build an actual social network around photos. Whether this will be 500px, Flickr (again), or somebody else entirely, I don&apos;t know.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evoxed</author><text>I&apos;ve always had issues with certain details on Flickr (perhaps since the Yahoo acquisition; I honestly can&apos;t remember what was just carried over) such as the inability to download all your photos at once for backup, lockout of &lt;i&gt;your own photos&lt;/i&gt; when your pro membership expires (combined with the aforementioned non-feature), and some other things. But as far as I can tell, the community is definitely there. Whenever I am doing research on1 particular piece of equipment or materials (chemicals mostly) I&apos;ll often find a fairly helpful discussion on Flickr, and with plenty of well-tagged shots to back it up.&lt;p&gt;Earlier this year while I was staying in Ginza for the weekend a spring popped inside one of my lenses. I have some experience repairing and rebuilding mechanical SLRs (not so much lenses) but without any tools or parts I was hoping to find a repair shop nearby that wouldn&apos;t break the bank. Ended up finding a pic on Flickr from someone who had the same issue a few years ago of him and the repairman with his Victor Hasselblad diploma, and his business card. Totally random place on the 8th floor in San-chome, but he was a great guy who I never would&apos;ve met if not for that post.</text></comment>