Facebook is all set to sell your Instagram photos to advertisers

Facebook is keen to make profit out of its 1 billion dollar acquisition of Instagram.

It is planning to do so by selling your Instagram photos to advertisers.

An extract from Instagram's blog post:

To provide context, we envision a future where both users and brands alike may promote their photos & accounts to increase engagement and to build a more meaningful following. Let’s say a business wanted to promote their account to gain more followers and Instagram was able to feature them in some way. In order to help make a more relevant and useful promotion, it would be helpful to see which of the people you follow also follow this business. In this way, some of the data you produce — like the actions you take (eg, following the account) and your profile photo — might show up if you are following this business.
You can read about this more at:http://blog.instagram.com/post/38252135408/thank-you-and-were-listening .