[jilliane]

To do password recovery on facebook, you get images you've never seen of people you know. facebook knows you know them. There is more to this $1 bil acquistion than teen socializing.

Zuckerberg is building a backend library of photos, connecting images across platforms, and enabling a name and facial recognition connectivity map.

[montag813]

Incredible waste of funds. But man what a lottery score for the NINE employees of Instagram, to split $1 billion. The founder alone gets $400 million.

[Hodar]

There are already articles detailing how to cancel and close your Instagram account. When you close, they ask you for a reason (optional); however it should be noted that the first available selection is “Privacy Concerns”.

As for those few lucky folk who worked for Instagram; whatever financial worries they had - they are OVER! Can you imagine going from working stiff, to mulit-millionare? I’m drooling already ....