Instagram is one of the most popular Social Media websites where you can share different photos and videos. Now, owned by Facebook, Instagram mainly follows Facebook’s rules and regulations regarding content.
Recently, Instagram has been on a spree of improving privacy features, battling “like-bots” and fake accounts. In many studies, it has been discussed how social media and Likes specifically affect our mood and general well-being. Instagram, in pursue to combat that, recently has implemented a test version of their application where you would not be able to see a total number of likes/views on photos/videos that were posted to the Feed, unless they are your own. As of now, this privacy feature is limited to some regions and not every user has access to it. Yet, they are planning to release a global update in the upcoming days.
Instagram has gathered feedback from Brazil, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Japan. So far, the results have been positive. As they state themselves, it is a fundamental change to Instagram environment. That is why they are taking it relatively slow to learn their global community as, they would think, that no everyone would be on good terms with the new feature.
Moreover, Instagram claims to understand that the View and Like counts can be extremely important for many people, including creators and artists. There have been several concerns regarding the feature and overall a global feedback has not been as nice as they claim it to be. Yet, Instagram seems to be really adamant about the feature and, personally, I really doubt that they would drop this idea. Truly speaking, this isn’t for the users’ benefit as it forces people to pay to use more of Instagram’s advertisement system. Yep, the things have not been too transparent here.
Another concern is that while Instagram tries to tackle users buying Likes, it does not tackle the problem of bot/fake accounts at all as prior to the feature, users who would buy followers on Instagram would not have the accompanied amount of likes. Therefore, creators who would use such services would not get sponsorships or deals from businesses and organizations. Now, when the Views and Likes count is gone and someone looks up an account with many followers, no one would know if those are paid for or genuine.
That’s it for today folks!
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Sources:
- https://twitter.com/instagram/status/1195009164470181888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1195009164470181888&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.onliner.by%2F2019%2F11%2F15%2Finstagram-35
- https://tech.onliner.by/2019/11/15/instagram-35
- https://about.instagram.com/
- https://instagram-press.com/
Oh! I forgot to mention! The real cool people use MySpace.
I think it can turn out in either good or bad way depending on people attitude and is it truly going to be without any likes, because I heard that they are still not sure about this change
it definitely helps to reduce social media anxiety and “perfect lives” that are depicted on the internet