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Some are upset with Instagram — let them

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Seems like, right now, the most popular thing to whinge about on Twitter is that Instagram has hanged there Terms of Use agreement. Letting their users they will do whatever they feel like with the photos their users have uploaded to the [free] service.

There is some truth to the phrase, if you don’t pay for the product, then you are the product. And the keyword here is, some.

To some extent it is true that if you are not paying for the service, you really do not have that much say in what the company decides to do.

However, there is also some expectation that you will be treated as a customer and that you will not feel like you are nothing but a product that provides revenue to a company for free.

So if people want to voice their opinion regarding Instagram, even how little effect that will have, let them. If you are annoyed that someone is unhappy with what they feel is unfair, shut the fuck up!

If you do not care about that some are unhappy with something, the rest of us really do not care about what you have to say about it, so again, shut the fuck up.

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Stasi would love Facebook

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When I first mentioned a few years ago that I wanted to delete my Facebook account, I was met with disbelief. As if I was going against the most important social norm in society.

It didn’t get any better when I said it was mostly because of privacy concerns. Again it was as if I was this tinfoil wearing nutter. Or some criminal with something to hide.

I have nothing to hide, they claimed to me. Like the East Germans had nothing to hide from Stasi – or is it more correct to say they could hide nothing from Stasi?

I had the same experience when I deleted all my photos from Instagram. Hearing I was paranoid and it meant nothing, so I mighty as well stay a user, like everyone else – one of us, one of us…

Which is why so many online services get away with what they do. We don’t question their actions. We assume they will guard our data.

End of the day it boils down to where that data is stored, which country do the servers reside and to what degree do the laws in that country protect our privacy?

Stasi is gone – today. But what about tomorrow?