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Photos are Facebook's achilles heel. A few of my friends have deleted their FB account, most of them returned a few months later, when I asked why, they said th
by davycro 14y ago
Photos are Facebook's achilles heel. A few of my friends have deleted their FB account, most of them returned a few months later, when I asked why, they said they missed the photos.
Facebooks core design, social networking, restricts them from making a great photo service. I think there is space for an app that provides people with a way to share hiqh quality photos. Not just mobile photos, but photos from SLRs. Like when 10 people go on a ski vacation and want to make a group photo album. Or 4 college students living in a party house want an album where people who attend their parties can upload their photos. An app like Divvyshot.
Divvyshot, Instagram, now Lightbox. Any app that has the slightest potential of disrupting the photo-space is a threat to Facebook. They are smart to buy them out.
- joshuahedlund 14y agoThere were many potential reasons for Facebook to buy Instagram, and while "buy out potential competitors" was a good one I wondered how much that really had to do with it. I think this new buy-out increases the evidence for that theory, though, and I wonder how that affects the future longevity of social networks. MySpace never had the money to buy out Facebook.