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Subject: Instagram to change ToS to sell photo's without consent
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Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification.

Facebook's vice-president of global marketing solutions Carolyn Everson earlier this month had said: "Eventually we'll figure out a way to monetise Instagram."


I don't use instagram myself but I don't like the thought of my pictures being sold to people or any of my information. In a sense the site has just killed itself out of pure greed.

I have seen cases where pictures of people have been taken and used on......NSFW advertisements, I believe this ToS change would make things like that worse.

Would you want your picture and info sold to somebody just to sell you stuff?

[Edited on 12.18.2012 1:02 PM PST]

  • 12.18.2012 1:02 PM PDT

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Well, make sure that you read the terms and conditions of any service you use. If they change to something you don't agree with, then change services. Instagram isn't a right, and they have competitors. Use one of the competitors if this bugs you.

  • 12.18.2012 1:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Well, make sure that you read the terms and conditions of any service you use. If they change to something you don't agree with, then change services. Instagram isn't a right, and they have competitors. Use one of the competitors if this bugs you.

ib4 OP takes it personal.

I dont use Instagram. Pretty useless imo.

  • 12.18.2012 1:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Well, make sure that you read the terms and conditions of any service you use. If they change to something you don't agree with, then change services. Instagram isn't a right, and they have competitors. Use one of the competitors if this bugs you.
You mean like XBL and PSN both having ToS changed that nobody likes and you are forced to accept if you want to play your console??

Seems real fair.

  • 12.18.2012 1:05 PM PDT
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Foman is my favorite moderator. <3

Wall Street demands profitability and revenue growth, especially at the valuation Facebook was given. They still have a hard time figuring out how to monetize social networking. It is why I don't touch the sector with a ten foot pole.

I'd bet Zuckerberg regrets being backed into a corner and practically forced into taking the company public.

  • 12.18.2012 1:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Well, make sure that you read the terms and conditions of any service you use. If they change to something you don't agree with, then change services. Instagram isn't a right, and they have competitors. Use one of the competitors if this bugs you.

  • 12.18.2012 1:07 PM PDT

You better close this sig when your done.

I don't see any problem with Instagram doing this as its completely their decision. I've never used Instagram myself because I don't own an iphone/android but my brother does, so I've told him to stop using it. If I was ever going to use this in the future well then they've lost me as a customer.

  • 12.18.2012 1:07 PM PDT
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I demand compensation if they're going to sell all my mirror pictures and pictures of things I eat throughout the day!!!!

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!

  • 12.18.2012 1:09 PM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

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Posted by: Android Spartan

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Well, make sure that you read the terms and conditions of any service you use. If they change to something you don't agree with, then change services. Instagram isn't a right, and they have competitors. Use one of the competitors if this bugs you.
You mean like XBL and PSN both having ToS changed that nobody likes and you are forced to accept if you want to play your console??

Seems real fair.


Then play PC games. Look, nothing you have posted constitutes a right. You can choose to play, or not to play. You canpost pictures with Instagram or with another service. The choice is yours.

Each of these entities exists to make a profit. If the terms of using their product is unreasonable, then do not use their product. Its that simple.

  • 12.18.2012 1:09 PM PDT

You better close this sig when your done.


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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Well, make sure that you read the terms and conditions of any service you use. If they change to something you don't agree with, then change services. Instagram isn't a right, and they have competitors. Use one of the competitors if this bugs you.
You mean like XBL and PSN both having ToS changed that nobody likes and you are forced to accept if you want to play your console??

Seems real fair.

I'm on the verge of playing PC games exclusively. Better prices, better graphics, better communities, and best of all: Steam.

  • 12.18.2012 1:11 PM PDT

People still use Facebook ?

  • 12.18.2012 1:12 PM PDT

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Posted by: Android Spartan

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Well, make sure that you read the terms and conditions of any service you use. If they change to something you don't agree with, then change services. Instagram isn't a right, and they have competitors. Use one of the competitors if this bugs you.
You mean like XBL and PSN both having ToS changed that nobody likes and you are forced to accept if you want to play your console??

Seems real fair.


Then play PC games. Look, nothing you have posted constitutes a right. You can choose to play, or not to play. You canpost pictures with Instagram or with another service. The choice is yours.

Each of these entities exists to make a profit. If the terms of using their product is unreasonable, then do not use their product. Its that simple.

Plus on top of that! Offline mode.

  • 12.18.2012 1:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie

Posted by: Android Spartan

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Well, make sure that you read the terms and conditions of any service you use. If they change to something you don't agree with, then change services. Instagram isn't a right, and they have competitors. Use one of the competitors if this bugs you.
You mean like XBL and PSN both having ToS changed that nobody likes and you are forced to accept if you want to play your console??

Seems real fair.


Then play PC games. Look, nothing you have posted constitutes a right. You can choose to play, or not to play. You canpost pictures with Instagram or with another service. The choice is yours.

Each of these entities exists to make a profit. If the terms of using their product is unreasonable, then do not use their product. Its that simple.
Actually its my right to play a console I bought even if its offline.

I do play PC games but I also play Xbox, you also have PSN that pretty much says "You cannot sue us, don't like it? Go away then." after the hacking problem.

I also hate digital downloads because I can just say goodbye to 30+ games if Valve decides to shut down steam, no matter where you turn you get shafted by companies.

You can say buy a disk, I have 2 disked games that won't work without Steam so that option is out as well. So now I can't play PC, Xbox or PSN.

  • 12.18.2012 1:14 PM PDT
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This is pretty because anyone could get ahold of photos you've taken including perverts and stalkers.

  • 12.18.2012 2:22 PM PDT

Currently studying Computer Science & Software engineering. Hope to work on mobile devices of the future! When a certain game's credits roll, look out for my name! ;)

You will -blam!- bricks when you see what game it is! =)

What does instagram do anyway?

  • 12.18.2012 2:23 PM PDT
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You could have your photos used for Ads, without your consent. Photos can be edited to fit the message of the commercial. This is a greedy, and sly move by Facebook.

  • 12.18.2012 2:25 PM PDT

Why don't we just share the hill?

Why do people even use Instagram?

  • 12.18.2012 2:26 PM PDT

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lolinstagram

  • 12.18.2012 2:26 PM PDT

They aren't selling photos

  • 12.18.2012 2:26 PM PDT

Please do not send me group invites.

I don't use Instagram much, but I'll certainly be deleting my account and moving to a different service.

  • 12.18.2012 2:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Well, make sure that you read the terms and conditions of any service you use. If they change to something you don't agree with, then change services. Instagram isn't a right, and they have competitors. Use one of the competitors if this bugs you.
You mean like XBL and PSN both having ToS changed that nobody likes and you are forced to accept if you want to play your console??

Seems real fair.
What's not fair about it? They offer you a deal under certain conditions, and if you want in then you agree to those conditions. If you don't want to agree, then do something else. Why support a business model you disagree with? Because you want the product more than you dislike their practice? Well if you go ahead then and show that you care more about the product than you dislike their methods, then they'll keep on doing it. Even if you don't, if enough people do it won't matter.

The bottom line is that people collectively decide what works and what doesn't. If you have a problem with it, cast your vote with your wallet.

  • 12.18.2012 2:26 PM PDT


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I don't use Instagram much, but I'll certainly be deleting my account and moving to a different service.

  • 12.18.2012 2:28 PM PDT

I r guy who gun to teach u lesson


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I don't use Instagram much, but I'll certainly be deleting my account and moving to a different service.


Yeah I'm going to boycott it now, this is crazy.

  • 12.18.2012 2:32 PM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith


Posted by: Android Spartan

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie

Posted by: Android Spartan

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Well, make sure that you read the terms and conditions of any service you use. If they change to something you don't agree with, then change services. Instagram isn't a right, and they have competitors. Use one of the competitors if this bugs you.
You mean like XBL and PSN both having ToS changed that nobody likes and you are forced to accept if you want to play your console??

Seems real fair.


Then play PC games. Look, nothing you have posted constitutes a right. You can choose to play, or not to play. You canpost pictures with Instagram or with another service. The choice is yours.

Each of these entities exists to make a profit. If the terms of using their product is unreasonable, then do not use their product. Its that simple.
Actually its my right to play a console I bought even if its offline.

I do play PC games but I also play Xbox, you also have PSN that pretty much says "You cannot sue us, don't like it? Go away then." after the hacking problem.

I also hate digital downloads because I can just say goodbye to 30+ games if Valve decides to shut down steam, no matter where you turn you get shafted by companies.

You can say buy a disk, I have 2 disked games that won't work without Steam so that option is out as well. So now I can't play PC, Xbox or PSN.


You missed the point. You don't have a right to favorable terms and conditions. If you don't like the terms associated with a product or service, don't buy it, or stop using it.

You seem to think that you have a say in what the company does, just because you use their service. You do not. The only say you do have is to use it or not.

  • 12.18.2012 2:34 PM PDT

Don't think anybody saw my post earlier.

THEY ARE NOT SELLING PICTURES

  • 12.18.2012 2:36 PM PDT

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