\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Until you own yourself you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be free. Until you own yourself, you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d – JAY Z\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
When you get followers on Instagram, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have direct access to them. You are dependent (enslaved) to Instagram (which is owned by Facebook) and their algorithm to reach your followers.<\/p>\n
It is almost as if you had a phone line to your mom, friends, family, and fans .. yet InstaBook controlled the telephone lines, and would only allow you to put through 10% of the phone calls, unless you paid them money to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Boost\u00e2\u20ac\u009d your signal.<\/p>\n
What if you had 10,000 followers, but every time you uploaded a picture, only 100 of your followers saw it?<\/p>\n
What if you had 10,000 followers, but every time you uploaded a photo, only 10 of your followers saw it \u00e2\u20ac\u201d unless you boosted the post (paid Facebook for access to your fans?)<\/p>\n
That is what is going to happen with Instagram \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as it has already happened to a great degree to Facebook fan pages.<\/p>\n
\n Start your own email newsletter (I recommend mailchimp.com)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And of course, own your own website, FTP, blog platform. Own your own www.yourname.com and your own platform (WordPress.org).<\/p>\n
Digital share cropping slavery<\/h2>\n
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Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a digital slave\u00e2\u20ac\u201d working for Facebook for free. Providing free content and labor (your pictures and life), for nothing in return except some digital hearts, and connection.<\/p>\n
\nInstagram in 2030<\/h2>\n
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You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re probably gonna be alive 10 years from now. Will Instagram still be around? Probably \u00e2\u20ac\u201d except it will become more polluted and (even more) advertisement ridden like Facebook (Facebook owns Instagram, thus they are the same thing).<\/p>\n
Let \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lifestyle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d folks milk Instagram. You as a photographer and visual artist ; fuck the gram. Build up yourself, your own platform, and your own wealth.<\/p>\n
BE BOLD.
\nERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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