Instagram Is Hiding Like Counts From Followers In A New Test
Instagram will test hiding the like count from photos, and view counts from videos, in an effort to get users to pay attention to the content itself and not their associated engagement metrics, the Facebook-owned app announced on Tuesday.
In the test, followers won’t see total likes on photos, or views counts on videos, in their Instagram feeds or on when visiting a user’s profile. The account owner will still be able to access their own metrics and see the total likes or view counts for a specific post, although they will need to tap through a post to view those metrics. Instagram said that the “private likes” test would begin later this week for users in Canada at F8, Facebook’s annual developers conference.
Critics of social media companies have said that the public emphasis of such metrics as likes incentivizes negative behavior on platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, leading users to chase engagement to measure their self-worth. Many social media companies use algorithms that take into account a post’s likes or view counts, among other metrics, to determine how to distribute that content to other users.
Likes can also be an inaccurate way of measuring genuine engagement from users. There are online services that offer Instagram users to buy likes or comments, while BuzzFeed News has shown thatMosseri said he wasn’t taking the full removal of like counts or video views “off the table” in the future and noted that he was hoping to learn from this first test.
He also said he would have to think about hiding metrics in Stories, one of Instagram’s most popular features, in the future. Stories, ephemeral photos and videos that are broadcast to a user’s followers or certain groups, allow a post’s author to see how many people viewed that post .Jane Manchun Wong, a technology blogger who reverse engineers popular apps to uncover unreleased features,
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