Facebook Makes Moves On Instagram's Users

Facebook is trying to get Instagram users to visit its site more often by further entwining the two services. According to Instagram user Spencer Chen, the Instagram app prompted him to check out a friend's new photo on Facebook. "Chen grabbed a screenshot and posted the notification on the internet, calling it a cry for attention by the older social network," reports Bloomberg. From the report: Instagram says what Chen experienced was a product test with a small contingent of users. Still, Instagram feeds Facebook in other ways. Last year, Facebook launched its own version of an Instagram tool called Stories, which lets people post videos that disappear within 24 hours. (The feature was initially copied from Snap Inc., a competitor.) Greenfield noticed the Facebook version became more popular once it became possible for Instagram users to post their stories in both places with the click of a button. Instagram Stories' 400 million users present a significant opportunity for Facebook's advertising business, according to Ken Sena, an analyst at Wells Fargo Securities. Instagram is on track to provide Facebook with $20 billion in revenue by 2020, about a quarter of Facebook's total, he wrote to investors. And cross-posting could help Facebook's video ambitions.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck ALL social media. The core principal itself is unhealthy. While humans are social creatures, people forget that needing to switch off and spend time alone is equally as important. We're not built to be connected to each other all day, every day, we're not a hive-mind. The whole concept of social media runs counter to our biological need to spend time away from other people and recharge. Sure you can log out and do other things for a bit, but that social media tendril keeps you lassoed in. Each post, a

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[lucasnate1]

I really think that gun control, public health, welfare for cripples and elders, are all more important than limiting access to social networks.

Ruining them both

[alvinrod]

Hopefully their attempts at integration result in them ruining both services to the point that people go elsewhere. I recall a fairly large revolt when Google tried to shackle YouTube users with their own social network, although I don't think anyone really used that social network.

However, I suspect that it doesn't really matter what they do. The next generation is going to want to find a new social network precisely so they can get the fuck away from their parents, teachers, and relatives. It doesn't matter if it's better or worse, every new generation doesn't want to keep listening to their father's rock and roll.

Re:Ruining them both

[Excelcia]

Hopefully their attempts at integration result in them ruining both services

How much more intrinsically awful do they have to be to make people go elsewhere?

I created a Facebook account a month or so ago in order to advertise a found stray cat. I adjusted my settings at least a half a dozen times to try and stem the flood of emails and notifications. Come see what the lost and found pet group is doing. We bet you know this person, friend them. Look at this photo, tag yourself in it. On and on and on. The longer you don't log in, the more desperate they get. Every time I get my settings changed to preclude that type of contact, something "new" shows up for the first time.

In a way you have to admire the creativity of their programmers to find ways to justify contacting you, to find ways to just get you to drink the kool-aid. It was with some great relief that I actually found the cat's owners and could get myself back off Facebook.

I tried to come up with some redeeming aspect of Facebook during my stint there. In the end, it was an ad on Kijiji that located the cat's owners, so there wasn't even that in Facebook's favour. I honestly tried, but I can't think of anything good to come out of the platform that isn't available more safely and less invsasively somewhere else.

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[KiloByte]

I tried to come up with some redeeming aspect of Facebook

Well, their engineers created ZSTD and a bunch other brilliant tools. But then, without Werner von Braun we wouldn't have spaceflight, and his compatriots made some good advances in chemistry and so on...

How exactly did they move on them?

[Gravis Zero]

"... like a bitch." ;)

Instagram hates me

[MpVpRb]

..because I use a desktop computer

To me, it's totally useless

I don't understand why it's so popular

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[antdude]

Eh? It works fine for me, but I can't upload images. I even asked in https://www.reddit.com/r/Insta... [reddit.com] ... :(

Weird.

[antdude]

I don't have Facebook, but use Instagram's account to log in.

I've seen these for a while now..

[Vegan Cyclist]

FWIW, I've been seeing the 'Friend Posted A Facebook Photo' notification on the 'heart' page for at least a few weeks now. Funny since I refuse to load the app on mobile devices (only ever visiting it in my desktop browser.)

I will keep saying it

[WindowsStar]

Facebook and Twitter are dead. I no longer see them on job applications, and no links to them on LinkedIn and if you look up and view many of these applicants accounts you see no new content for a year or longer. Effectively these accounts are dead. I had about 1000 friends, family, etc on FB and Twitter and now-a-days I only have about 150 everyone had deleted or suspended their accounts. No wonder FB wants people on Instagram to look at FB.

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[Opportunist]

I actually don't remember seeing FB mentioned in any job applications. Then again, in security it's a KO-criterion if you use it since you basically admit that don't know jack about security or at the very least don't give a fuck, so...

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[WindowsStar]

I think you meant the applicants don't give a f. I never put FB on my application. Just telling you what I have seen and has changed over time.