I’m keeping my Instagram account

Instagram new policy: You are not our customers, you are the cattle we drive to market and auction off to the highest bidder. Enjoy your feed and keep producing the milk.

The guy seems to understand that his just a cattle and he likes that or even if he doesn't like it he chooses to use the service because the feed is good, but not every one likes to be a cattle.

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This is crap.

> I’m not sure what your assumption was all along when you started using this free service. My assumption was that when I posted the information to Instagram’s servers that I was trading utility

> for control (because I pay nothing for this service, I expect that it could go away at any moment.)

Yeah, we did trade utility for control - but now the control part of the bargain has changed, and that is why people are angry. It was predictable, but that doesn't make people's sense of betrayal any less real.

How does this affect Instagram accounts that are set to 'private'? I know a lot of people that only use the app for photo filtering and cropping instead of the sharing aspect.

Nice take on this, I think the outrage is a bit overblown here and seems to have taken on an angry mob with pitchforks mentality.

I think my usage will shift to Flickr as Instagram becomes more integrated with Facebook.