INSTAGRAM IS CHANGING;ARE YOU AFFECTED?
I was going through Facebook today and came across a friend’s lamenting
about Instagram, It made me to search and see for myself what’s actually
happening.
How?
Instagram recently dropped the news that it will be adapting a non-chronological
newsfeed order, similar to its big brother, Facebook. Instead of sorting
posts in a familiar linear order, the new algorithm will weigh in a variety of
social signals, such as a number of post engagements.
It will also consider
content you liked before in an attempt to sort images in the order of
“relevancy,” or as what Instagram perceives to be of most interest to you.I read a friends update on Facebook
today,as they were lamenting the changes that the popular social media
platform-Instagram has done is affecting them. i kept asking how.
They complained that their
links are no longer visible and it seemed that Instagram wanted users to pay
before they could post live links.Maybe that was their understanding but i needed to get to the roots of the issue.Here it is.
Many Instagram users are furious about the
company's new update. Here's why they shouldn't be Since inception, the
massively popular photo-sharing app served up users’ friends’ images in
chronological order.
But Instagram will soon begin using an algorithm to
predict which photos its users are mostly likely to like. Those pictures will
then appear higher in their feeds. (The system doesn’t have a release date but
is being selectively tested.)
This may sounds like relatively a minor shift, but many diehard Instagram
users are upset by the idea. Emotions, as they are want to do online, range
from annoyance to outrage: Some prolific Instagrammers are going so far as to
ask their followers to be notified every time they upload a new image: Will the
change actually hurt Instagram? Probably not.
Facebook, the world’s biggest
social network (and Instagram’s owner since 2012), has long used an algorithm
to serve up content it thinks users will be more interested in. Changes to
Facebook’s newsfeed—what users see when they log in—used to illicit similarly
strong objections but, lately, fewer seem to mind. And the change hasn’t dinged
Facebook’s growth—a billion people check the site every day.
The same will betrue of Instagram’s update. Some of the app’s 400 million users will
undoubtedly be annoyed by the “new Instagram.” But it’s likely they will accept
the shift, if begrudgingly. There is just too much good content on the platform
to give up on it. Instagram’s change is still in what a spokesperson
characterized as a “testing period.” The company will not offer an opt-out
during that period, which he added will last “weeks, or even months.”
Instagram’s claim that the average user misses 70 percent of their friends’
photos rings true to me. That’s unfortunate. I would rather see all of my
friends’ posts, even if out of order, rather than miss them entirely.
I suspect many other Instagram users feel the same—even if they’re not being
quite as loud about the change.
For me ,I think we just have to watch out and see how it all goes.Instagram
is a cool platform already loved by millions and they know it.Any review of the
app,I’m certain would be to enhance user satisfaction.
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Additions sources:Entrepreneur, Times
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