socialnetworks

folks seem to be irked re: the instagram terms of service. i don’t know what they were expecting. it’s free, polished app which requires serious ergs in terms of engineering efforts expended. instagram’s a prodigious consumer of network bandwidth and storage (those pictures aren’t trivial to store at massive scale) and folks haven’t exactly been shouldering the burden for this delivery by opening their wallets. but seriously, “awful” or as someone couched it, “shameful”?...

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. – abraham lincoln increasingly, i think that this statement holds true in the social networking domain. for the first time in history folks have a real-time broadcast mechanism at their disposal to broadcast the mundane and the potentially deeply poignant to all manner of folks.

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