A few years ago I quit using fakebook because I loathed it. But being into photos, I still used Instagram and used to think it was pretty cool. But it was owned by fakebook and once I woke up and stopped using fakebook, I had to quit Instagram as well. That was easy because they went and changed the feed and instead of being chronological it became an order determined by them, and I happily quit using it that day - bugger that for a joke.
In April 2012, fakebook acquired Instagram for US$1 billion. As of October 2015, over 40 billion photos had been uploaded to the service. Although praised for its influence, Instagram has been the subject of criticism, most notably for policy and interface changes, and allegations of censorship.
This is my parting message that heads up my Instagram page to this day:
"Thanks for all the fish. Instagram censorship and photo ownership has moved me along to Steemit - I don't play on anything owned by fakebook..."
Back in the old days I used to post hundreds of groovy little square photos - here are five of them:
