Founder of “Vkontakte” Pavel Durov has criticized the decision of the management of social networks disable image links in Instagram. According to him, this is a useless solution which shows the fear of a competing service.
“There are two ways to respond to competition. The first is to improve yourself and your project. The second is to try to harm competitors. The first method works long term, but not the second”, – stated in the message frame.
“Once You shift the focus from self to competitors, You are letting yourself in fear of them. You unconsciously bring what you fear. Fear is a self-fulfilling prophecy”, he added.
To your post Durov made inactive link to the publication in his Instagram, which reads: “Fear is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Be fearless”. What can be literally translated: “Fear can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Be fearless”.
Recall, after you start your own Snapster lenses social network “Vkontakte” has decided to refuse the publication of hyperlinks to photos and pages of users in Instagram. Now to go to the service page users must manually copy them and paste into the address bar.
The algorithms of the social network when you insert links to pictures in Instagram continue to automatically load on their own servers, as in the case of the standard icons.
Presents “Vkontakte” service Snapster very similar to Instagram, but it is deeply integrated with the social network. The application allows you to process photos and publish them in the social network, create own filters and send self-destructing messages.
