This is indeed a dark day. Instagram was my ‘anti-facebook’.

Mark Zuckerburg:

I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.

You mean you ‘get’ to acquire Instagram.

We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building on Instagram’s strengths and features rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook. That’s why we’re committed to building and growing Instagram independently.

I hope so.

Users generate simple, consumable content on Instagram. Photos. Not a mess of Farmville moves and second hand content streams from other mediocre applications.

They also use instagram on one (type) of device. Smartphone. It’s so simple, and I love it.

I don’t want music, video, gifs, tweets, gamification. i just want photos.

Please don’t fuck this up.