I love how everyone just accuses Instagram users of being irrational here. Maybe they just realized that Facebook pulls this same shit over and over and when Facebook bought Instagram and started making changes, people felt they were doing the same thing as Facebook and left. There is a reason you don't shit on your users and then mock them, it makes them stop trusting your brand, which is what happened here. The response would have been different if GOOG, Twitter or even Yahoo had bought Instagram because they seem to communicate with their users in a way other than talking down to them.
One of the things that bothered me the most about this is as an ex-Facebook employee, its pretty obvious when the PR machine gets revved up. The second people pointed out that these terms weren't ideal for the user, I would guess 20 of my facebook friends posted articles basically mocking the idea that these terms were bad and boom, because Facebooks internal PR team says that the terms are good, anyone who disagrees is stupid and naive. Great way to deal with your users, mock and talk down to them because of a mistake you made. I bet the WarZ developers are proud of Facebook today.
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I love how everyone just accuses Instagram users of being irrational here. Maybe they just realized that Facebook pulls this same shit over and over and when Facebook bought Instagram and started making changes, people felt they were doing the same thing as Facebook and left. There is a reason you don't shit on your users and then mock them, it makes them stop trusting your brand, which is what happened here. The response would have been different if GOOG, Twitter or even Yahoo had bought Instagram because they seem to communicate with their users in a way other than talking down to them.
One of the things that bothered me the most about this is as an ex-Facebook employee, its pretty obvious when the PR machine gets revved up. The second people pointed out that these terms weren't ideal for the user, I would guess 20 of my facebook friends posted articles basically mocking the idea that these terms were bad and boom, because Facebooks internal PR team says that the terms are good, anyone who disagrees is stupid and naive. Great way to deal with your users, mock and talk down to them because of a mistake you made. I bet the WarZ developers are proud of Facebook today.