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(Image source: All Things Digital)
BY EVAN THOMAS AND LOGAN TITTLE
In case you forgot, Instagram is making some changes to its terms of service and privacy
policy later this month—again.
The image-sharing site sent a reminder about its scheduled switch in an email earlier this
week. The new terms of service will go into effect on January 19th and will NOT include
the same controversial language that made so many Instagrammers threaten to take their
pictures elsewhere.
(via Washington Post)
And they were serious about their threats — some almost brought a class-action lawsuit
that accused Instagram of nabbing customer property rights.
To keep from upsetting their users again, Instagram is taking a more careful approach
this time around.
According to the Instagram blog—
“Going forward, rather than obtain permission from you to introduce possible advertising
products we have not yet developed, we are going to take the time to complete our plans,
and then come back to our users and explain how we would like for our advertising business
to work.”
So what should we brace ourselves for this time around?
All Things D explains Instagram expects the upcoming changes to help users share data
easier through Facebook—which bought the site last year—as well as prevent the frequent
spam that reportedly floods through comments.
But the site has gotten mixed signals from users since its last update. AppStats—an
analytical tool for Facebook applications and games—shows...
The site’s daily active users have dropped from around 15 million to less than five million
in the past month—but at the same time, the monthly active users has grown by almost
10 million.
As far as what to expect those numbers to look like with the new terms of service agreement
comes around, users will just have to wait and see if they actually agree to them—
Otherwise they’ll be telling Instagram to take a picture of its own site because it’ll
last longer.