It seems Instagram has been in the news a lot lately (per my last blog post), but on Monday when they changed their terms of service agreement, Instagrammers, both personal accounts and business accounts, seemed to be enraged. Users are now concerned over the fact that Instagram can sell their photos to advertisers. Although Facebook bought out Instagram this year, Instagram currently makes no revenue off the app. National Geographic, ironically enough, posted this message on their account yesterday.

If you’re worried about your photos being sold for advertisement space, there are a few alternatives to consider before you decide to delete your account!

1. Backup your photos from Instagram: Copygram, Instaport.Me, Instarchive and Instabackup all saw higher than average volume this week.

2. Try out a new service until Instagram is more clear on how they will use your photos.  Flickr has a sharing option similar to Instagram and also has the filter effects to add to photos. Google’s Snapseed allows for similar features and enables you to share them to Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

3. Make use of Twitter and Pixlr-O-Matic. After the Twitter and Instagram breakup, Twitter installed filter features into its photo sharing feature. Pixlr-O-Matic is a photo editing app that is available on multiple platforms outside iOS and Android. It’s available on Facebook as well as a stand alone website and users can add special effects, overlays, borders and share with others.

Don’t forget: If you deactivate your Instagram account, there is no way to reactivate it!