These days, the managers of Instagram are changing the way users access one of the most controversial aspects of the entire social network: the metrics that show how many photos and other content have been viewed and liked. After the new Switch which lets you choose to see or ignore the number of likes obtained from other people’s content, the latest change is currently affecting a still small circle of users, who have disappeared from before their eyes. the number of views for the stories published.
The topicality of stories and tastes
Normally, after posting a story on Instagram, it is possible to track the number of users who saw it directly on the content screen. However, according to some online users, the developers are changing this count in a less accessible place of the application: that relating to the details of the story itself, in an easy-to-access but always separate screen. Similar changes are all superficial, which is why app managers haven’t talked about them and probably won’t, but they add to another well-documented novelty introduced in recent days from a screen. official: the possibility of show or hide the number of likes linked to photos displayed or published.
Hiding the total view count of your stories and doing the same with persistent app content might help. remove some pressure from those who make them. The act of posting content on social media that lives up to the approval of others has been associated by researchers and academics with moods comparable to anxiety, and for quite some time, Instagram has been experimenting in different countries to try to mitigate these aspects of its social network. It’s not yet clear if and when Instagram will make the changes to the count in story views to all users, but the switches for the likes count should already be in the full-scale debut phase. To find them in the app, you have to wait and make sure the app is updated with the latest version available.
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