What does the notice that appears in Instagram direct messages mean? This is the reason why you cannot use some functions.
If you live in Spain –or any other country in the European Union– and open direct messages from the Instagram app, it is very likely that you will find a notice like the one in the image that heads this article. In it, it is indicated that some functions of the messaging service have been disabled temporarily.
According explain in The Verge, Facebook has been forced to disable some features of two of its messaging services, Messenger and Instagram Direct, due to the new rules imposed by the European Union regarding instant messaging services.
While the company you have not confirmed which functions this notice refers to, we do know that utilities such as polls are no longer available.
The notice that appears when accessing Instagram direct messages.
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Facebook intends to re-offer the functions in Europe
The message itself indicates that withdrawal of these functions should be temporary, and that the company is working on implementing them again so that they can be used by European users.
The decision to temporarily eliminate these functions was made just a few weeks after making official the great merger between Instagram Direct and Facebook Messenger, which unified the infrastructure of the messaging services in one, so that Messenger users could send messages to those of Instagram, and vice versa.
The standards to which Facebook refers are those imposed by the European Union that are detailed in the document Directive 2002 on privacy and electronic communications,
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