Comments on: Putting a name to the free-floating dread inspired by the Facebook/Instagram acquisition http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 01:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: mark conahan http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1395252 mark conahan Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1395252 I'm thinking the billion is a kind of penance Facebook is having to pay for sucking so bad. I’m thinking the billion is a kind of penance Facebook is having to pay for sucking so bad.

]]> By: Dlo Burns http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1395220 Dlo Burns Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1395220 It's a quick sifting and packing cocaine dispenser. It’s a quick sifting and packing cocaine dispenser.

]]> By: Uthor http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394938 Uthor Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394938 you're "appalled" that people are using a photo hosting site to upload photos that they want to share? Well, I guess I'm sorry that they don't meet your criteria for the proper use of the site. Sounds like you need to make your own service that you curate so only "good" photos matching your high standards are shown. you’re “appalled” that people are using a photo hosting site to upload photos that they want to share? Well, I guess I’m sorry that they don’t meet your criteria for the proper use of the site. Sounds like you need to make your own service that you curate so only “good” photos matching your high standards are shown.

]]> By: benher http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394597 benher Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394597 This. I am one of these users, and I know I'm not alone. Facebook has, since I signed up years ago, become more intrusive, abusive, obtuse and obese. It should surprise no one that FB's complete and total disregard for it's users privacy, let alone their experience, would one day culminate in a mass exodus ala mySpace.  Instagram just became a new place to go - with No Messages to assail you. Just fun photos and for the ADD among us, no boring words to read - doesn't every image have over a thousand of those anyway? Delightfully simple for all those in between times of your day and just as social. I just quit logging into FB altogether after that.  The community of IG is and has been tight and less nebulous than the ever changing face of my "friends." For those of you that still can't fathom why this acquisition bothers IG users, I guess you just weren't ever a part of it.  ...but hey, I'm no spring chicken. Big corporations ruining one more thing in my life is really no surprise - at least it makes searching for the next bastion of fun a bit more exciting! This. I am one of these users, and I know I’m not alone. Facebook has, since I signed up years ago, become more intrusive, abusive, obtuse and obese. It should surprise no one that FB’s complete and total disregard for it’s users privacy, let alone their experience, would one day culminate in a mass exodus ala mySpace. 

Instagram just became a new place to go – with No Messages to assail you. Just fun photos and for the ADD among us, no boring words to read – doesn’t every image have over a thousand of those anyway? Delightfully simple for all those in between times of your day and just as social.
I just quit logging into FB altogether after that. 

The community of IG is and has been tight and less nebulous than the ever changing face of my “friends.” For those of you that still can’t fathom why this acquisition bothers IG users, I guess you just weren’t ever a part of it. 

…but hey, I’m no spring chicken. Big corporations ruining one more thing in my life is really no surprise – at least it makes searching for the next bastion of fun a bit more exciting!

]]> By: ackpht http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394468 ackpht Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394468 There's big money in stupid. There’s big money in stupid.

]]> By: puppybeard http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394453 puppybeard Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394453  You're wrong. Instagram sincerely set out to make money, and they sincerely succeeded. They also succeed at adding an additional layer of homogeneity to some mediocre photographs. Never understood the fascination.  You’re wrong. Instagram sincerely set out to make money, and they sincerely succeeded.

They also succeed at adding an additional layer of homogeneity to some mediocre photographs. Never understood the fascination.

]]> By: puppybeard http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394450 puppybeard Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394450 I can't get over how many people are shocked that a VC company flipped for a big pile of cash.  What else was going to happen? The goal of Instagram, which has been shown to be "make a ton of money", is unlikely to change with Facebook's acquisition. The people who think it had some other reason to exist, they're the naiive ones. It's a nice app and all, but come on, even Premier League football teams have a thinner mercenary streak than the average VC startup, in that VC is all mercenary. I can’t get over how many people are shocked that a VC company flipped for a big pile of cash.  What else was going to happen?

The goal of Instagram, which has been shown to be “make a ton of money”, is unlikely to change with Facebook’s acquisition. The people who think it had some other reason to exist, they’re the naiive ones.

It’s a nice app and all, but come on, even Premier League football teams have a thinner mercenary streak than the average VC startup, in that VC is all mercenary.

]]> By: robuluz http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394438 robuluz Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394438 What's Instagram? What’s Instagram?

]]> By: professor http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394399 professor Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394399 Just wait till the IPO goes through... then whatever they touch will only ever be about money Just wait till the IPO goes through… then whatever they touch will only ever be about money

]]> By: Fnordius http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394373 Fnordius Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394373 I really don't get the vibe that Facebook was buying anything new with Instagram as much as they were panicking about how many users were jumping ship, only posting through Instagram and no longer logging in to Facebook. I get more of a sense that it was a mix Microsoft style paranoia and Zuckerberg being impulsive with the abstract numbers involved. As for me, I was looking for a replacement anyhow since Instagram had been dragging its feet with G+ integration. Looks like I will now have to step up my hunt a little... I really don’t get the vibe that Facebook was buying anything new with Instagram as much as they were panicking about how many users were jumping ship, only posting through Instagram and no longer logging in to Facebook. I get more of a sense that it was a mix Microsoft style paranoia and Zuckerberg being impulsive with the abstract numbers involved.

As for me, I was looking for a replacement anyhow since Instagram had been dragging its feet with G+ integration. Looks like I will now have to step up my hunt a little…

]]> By: Alisdair Cameron http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394367 Alisdair Cameron Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394367 Look, I do get and understand the 'dread' aspect:a bit like when folk feel pangs when a band they've liked since when they played small clubs get to play arenas etc. But to say, as the author does,that Instagram somehwo represents sincerity is off-kilter. Instagram is all about artifice. What the FB acquisition will do is rob certain Instagram users of a sense of being part of an exclusive clique. It can't rob them of sincerity or authenticity that was never there. Look, I do get and understand the ‘dread’ aspect:a bit like when folk feel pangs when a band they’ve liked since when they played small clubs get to play arenas etc.
But to say, as the author does,that Instagram somehwo represents sincerity is off-kilter. Instagram is all about artifice. What the FB acquisition will do is rob certain Instagram users of a sense of being part of an exclusive clique. It can’t rob them of sincerity or authenticity that was never there.

]]> By: digi_owl http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394354 digi_owl Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394354 As they say, 90% of everything is shit... Reads a bit like a cross between "september that never ended" and some memetic hipster joke, btw. As they say, 90% of everything is shit…

Reads a bit like a cross between “september that never ended” and some memetic hipster joke, btw.

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394336 EH Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394336 Hipstamatic, which preceded Instagram, is still around. Hipstamatic, which preceded Instagram, is still around.

]]> By: Crashproof http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394182 Crashproof Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:29:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394182 I installed Instagram because I wanted to screw around with hipstery camera effects.  I have no interest in yet another "community" or social network or any of that, and little need for yet another place to upload photos to share them. I installed Instagram because I wanted to screw around with hipstery camera effects.  I have no interest in yet another “community” or social network or any of that, and little need for yet another place to upload photos to share them.

]]> By: B E Pratt http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394167 B E Pratt Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:08:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394167  Hum, must check this out. Thanks.  Hum, must check this out. Thanks.

]]> By: connectionfailure http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/putting-a-name-to-the-free-flo.html#comment-1394121 connectionfailure Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=154239#comment-1394121 Although I have an Instagram account, as an amateur iphoneographer I was appalled to discover people were just using Instagram to take shots of their impending meal. Or cat. I found Picplz to be an alternative where most users genuinely wanted to upload good photos. Yes there are a lot of sunsets and cats galore, and teenagers who upload stuff they like rather than shots they took (a la imgfave) but it is still a good community. Although I have an Instagram account, as an amateur iphoneographer I was appalled to discover people were just using Instagram to take shots of their impending meal. Or cat.
I found Picplz to be an alternative where most users genuinely wanted to upload good photos. Yes there are a lot of sunsets and cats galore, and teenagers who upload stuff they like rather than shots they took (a la imgfave) but it is still a good community.

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