Week 2 BOC: Instagram

 

As we all know, Facebook is already a high-valued company, created to connect and share with everyone around the globe very easily and fast. Now the popular social networking site has acquired a fast-growing application called Instagram, an app that allows you take photos from your mobile phones and edit them to share instantly.

Instagram is a very new company that was created less than two years ago. It has grown rapidly over the past several months due to it’s popularity and user friendly interface.  More ‘artistic’ users will enjoy it’s easy editing and adding effects to their photos and sharing their work with friends and family for all to enjoy.

"Facebook announcedtheywould purchase popular photo-sharing app Instagram Monday for amind-blowing $1billion. Once the acquisition is complete, people are wonderingwhat will happento the two-year old app that took smartphones by storm."

Although purchasing the app for one billion dollars seems like a lot of money, the real is in the users who have downloaded Instagram. Many users have started a ruckus over the purchase of the company and its app.

“Naysayers have legitimatereasons for concern. Instagram is the most popular product that Facebook haspurchased.”

Instagram users are concerned whether if Facebook will make any changes to the app, and worry it might become something they use less if any major changes are made. Some users have even quit using Instagram in protest to Facebook purchasing the company.

“Instagram, the popularmobile photo-sharing app, has only been available on Android smartphones forone day, but the apphas already garnered over 1 million downloads.”

Whether or not Facebook makes any changes to the userface of Instagram, many people will continue to download and use the app due to it’s easy way to take photos and posting them online for speedy sharing. The purchase of Instagram hopefully will not drive users away as it is continuing to grow.