Within the last month Facebook threw down $1 billion to acquire the hipster-friendly free photo editing app Instagram. This app is available for both the iPhone and (finally) Android phones...and while this app allows you to edit photos it is also another form of social networking (just what we need!). After editing your photos other users in the Instagram community can view your pictures. With 50 million users, and 5 million additional users each week, it's no wonder why Facebook wants to get in on the action.
Instagram currently has 18 different filters and allows you to instantly upload your newly edited photo onto Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Posterous, Twitter, and Tumblr.
If you haven't used the app before I recommend it. Here's a beginner's guide to Instagram:
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-57414563-233/a-beginners-guide-to-instagram/?tag=mncol;4n
And if you're curious as to WHY Facebook would spend $1 billion on an app that isn't making money this article is interesting too:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57411422-256/facebook-buys-instagram...but-for-what/?tag=featureLead
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