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Let's be honest here. FB bought IG because they were the competition and what was the end result? Those guys at IG got benched for years and haven't done much s

Let's be honest here. FB bought IG because they were the competition and what was the end result? Those guys at IG got benched for years and haven't done much since. So they won, if money was the goal. But if the goal was winning hearts and minds, and making an impact on the industry, they got sidelined. They lost. IG will never reach it's full potential. So yes, a good purchase on FB's part. But for IG? Debatable.

bpicolo 10y ago
How has Instagram not won hearts and minds? It's an absolutely massive social platform used by a ton of teenagers / young folks. Tons of people use it as their primary form of social media consumption.
carlmcqueen 10y ago
while not their main demographic I'm sure my wife and a lot of her friends only post to instragram now because she realized all she cared about on facebook were the pictures and the amount of ads in her feed were getting to her. Her entire network solely posts on instragram and lets it link to facebook. She finds it a lot more uplifting than the endless political stuff shown to her on facebook.
vecter 10y ago
I'm so confused how you came even remotely close to your completely wrong conclusion. IG has won in almost every way imaginable. Now that Snapchat is the new threat, IG has been aggressively copying their features and it's working.
- ianstallings 10y ago
  Which they had years to already work on and leap ahead, but now they're playing catch up. I came to this conclusion by wondering, who sold IG? I can't remember. I can't remember who created it to be honest. Because now they're a footnote. Everything they've done they could've easily done without Facebook and become a serious threat to FB and every other platform. But not now. Now they're on the bench. This is what competitors do. They buy you up and make sure you never work on anything that competes, and everything you do they take credit for.

bpicolo 10y ago

How has Instagram not won hearts and minds? It's an absolutely massive social platform used by a ton of teenagers / young folks. Tons of people use it as their primary form of social media consumption.

carlmcqueen 10y ago

while not their main demographic I'm sure my wife and a lot of her friends only post to instragram now because she realized all she cared about on facebook were the pictures and the amount of ads in her feed were getting to her. Her entire network solely posts on instragram and lets it link to facebook. She finds it a lot more uplifting than the endless political stuff shown to her on facebook.

vecter 10y ago

I'm so confused how you came even remotely close to your completely wrong conclusion. IG has won in almost every way imaginable. Now that Snapchat is the new threat, IG has been aggressively copying their features and it's working.

ianstallings 10y ago
Which they had years to already work on and leap ahead, but now they're playing catch up. I came to this conclusion by wondering, who sold IG? I can't remember. I can't remember who created it to be honest. Because now they're a footnote. Everything they've done they could've easily done without Facebook and become a serious threat to FB and every other platform. But not now. Now they're on the bench. This is what competitors do. They buy you up and make sure you never work on anything that competes, and everything you do they take credit for.