Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enable its users to take photos and videos and share to their friends and followers. Nowadays, this app is very popular among people, especially teenagers. Not surprisingly, I am one of those users and I like it. Instagram was bought by Facebook in September 2012 for $715 million in cash and stocks.

On October 3, 2013, the company announced that the advertisements are going to be involved in Instagram. Users will be able to see the ads in their photo streams. However, if they are not interested in these ads, they can hide those and give feedbacks as well. I personally hate seeing ads when I’m using the apps. It’s annoying. However, in my point of view, Instagram is making a great decision. Most people who are using Instagram are following the celebrities and some brands. They would like to follow these informations. Therefore, the ads which are posted on Instagram will be valuable. The companies can get more customers by posting these ads and Instagram can make more profit. Furthermore, this action won’t have a negative influence on Instagram cause users can decide to keep the ads or not.

http://business.time.com/2013/10/03/instagram-will-usher-in-ads/

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