Two days ago, popular social network for sharing photos and videos celebrated five years since its founding. Co-founder and head of the social network owned by Facebook Kevin SISTROM said that he had discussed with colleagues the possibility of creating a version for adults.
Posted in this social network image would, in his words, rated R. According to the United States adopted the rating system for films that fall into this category of works, which under 17 years can only watch accompanied by an adult.
SISTROM said that during the discussions of the project’s difficulties began at the stage of deciding who will determine whether a photo to the category of R. He added that Instagram most importantly — do not create resources for hosting pornography, and to give people the opportunity to Express themselves beautifully.
The head of service also explained why Instagram is forbidden to publish images of female nipples without censorship. According to him, the reason is the strict rules of the App Store, and available in the Apple store app may contain images of naked bodies only if it is rated “17+”. I Instagram the rating is “12+” because the company doesn’t want to close access to the social network to teenagers.
According to Systrom, the number of Instagram users has exceeded 400 million people. Russia ranks fifth by the number of active users: 16 million Russians every day upload over 3.5 million pictures and put at least 125 million “likes”. Only Instagram users upload 80 million pictures and put 3.5 billion “likes” daily. In the five years since its founding in Instagram has been downloaded more than 40 billion photos.
