[Smrchy]

As soon as i read that FB was buying Instagram i quit and deleted my Instagram account. It was too predictable that something like this will happen.

Mark Zuckerberg is in a horrible position. I bet he would love to just build a cool and useful product. Instead he is damned to roll out all these awful money making features. And quick. Not only for his investors but also for the staff that owns FB stock.

How smooth could FB move along if their investors trusted them like they trust Jeff Bezos and his very long-term view.

[chris_wot]

Mark Zuckerberg made his own bed. He can't be trusted no matter what you say, just look at how Facebook handles privacy!

[readme]

You say it like they have a reason to!? Amazon had a solid plan.

I think facebook could make quite a bit of money if they charged for their developer API.

[kloncks]

What's the alternative? A cool and useful product that makes revenues how? How do you propose that Instagram actually make money?

Not attacking. Just wanted to hear more specific thoughts.

[richardjs]

Would it be viable to let users opt-in to selling their photos, with users and Instagram splitting the money? That seems to be a system that would appeal to both sides.

[rkwz]

Flickr, deviantART model - Freemium

[artursapek]

How smooth could FB move along if their investors trusted them like they trust Jeff Bezos and his very long-term view.

I never looked at it that way. Great thought.

[wilfra]

Trust is earned. Zuck hasn't earned it yet. Not in the eyes of Wall Street.

Look what Bezos had to go through to get where he is today: http://i.imgur.com/2ie9t.png

[btilly]

It should be noted that Bezos also had significant bond issues that nobody thought they could make payments on. They were down in the junk bond basement. If he had failed to make those payments, Amazon would have become yet another failed dot com, just like eToys. (Which went out of business while making a profit - just not enough profit to make bond payments on excess warehousing purchased because they overestimated growth for 2000 after underestimating it in 1999.)

[uvTwitch]

Sounds like the Eyes of Wall Street will end up sinking Facebook if they're not careful.