When Instagram announced it would switch to an algorithmically sorted feed last month, many users freaked out, and some pushed followers to turn on notifications about their posts.
The question remains whether users will freak out about video ads.
Case in point: On Monday, during a CNN segment on how the Academy Award trophy gets made, a plate reading "Academy Award to Leonardo DiCaprio Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role 'Wolf Of Wall Street'" was shown, causing many Twitter users to freak out as actual websites published stories about an "Oscar spoiler".
~MG Siegler, Hunter Walk, Jeremiah Gordon, Narendra Rocherolle, Sujay Jaswa, and Jason Calacanis, Branch Facebook, with 800 million users, was freaked out by a tiny startup.
Facebook briefly supported EXIF data during Timeline's tests, but stopped doing so because users were "freaked out" that Facebook knew when a photo was taken.
Much like its relatively stress-free credit score checks, Credit Karma wants to make its users less freaked out by the idea of identity theft — an unavoidable relative of leading an online existence.
Make sure your users don't freak out in the process.
One of the most interesting apps that is quietly picking up steam is Polar for iOS, and it has done some interesting things to best serve all of its users and not freak out about it being "overrun by kids," much like Instagram has been.
This is not something that users should immediately freak out about, but it may be worthwhile to change your Pandora password if you access Pandora's website on a shared computer or at an Internet cafe, especially if that password is one you use across the web for other sites of a more personal and private nature.
The question remains whether Facebook's users will be freaked out if they notice their personal data is being used to target ads outside of Facebook.
