New Flickr app better than Instagram

Now that Instagram has suddenly angered so many of its millions of loyal users with a sneaky terms of service change, Yahoo's newly released Flickr app actually has a chance to win over legions of new photo sharers, the Atlantic Wire reported.

Instagram's champions have been agitated with the app ever since it got all buddy-buddy with Facebook, but now that Instagram can sell your pictures without telling you — or letting you opt out — many users have threatened to leave.


Instagram has the benefits of the network effect: by now, all friends are there. But there was a time not long ago when it was an
app far, far away from anyone but the earliest of adopters. That was thought to be part of the beauty of Instagram: users could rebuild a more intimate social network than your legions of followers on Twitter or friends on Facebook. The site has been around for almost nine years, and a lot of people are on it from way back when. Which means not only that those pre-iPhone photos from a 2008 trip to South America show up pre-loaded on the new Flickr app, but you have a lot of old friends to choose from — and only old friends. For some that might mean a ton of accidental Flickr friends who happen to be great photographers, but for others it could result in the slim pickings below.