I am waiting this to be followed by "premium" tier for consumers that allows them to see "hidden" likes.
Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt that such stigma will be very widespread. There's been a renewed focus within the society to focus on digital well-being, screen time, and general mental wellness connected to the overuse of social media platforms and smartphones. People will try this feature just out of curiosity, and be able to tell their peers about non-social standing related reasons for why it's useful.
The likelihood of that outcome seems likely to be proportional to age.
Or, to be more precise, inversely proportional to age
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found myself fantasizing about social media digicide, so I went for it. Totally worth it. You’ll know when you’re ready for it. I do miss keeping in touch with some older friends via my FB account. There is certainly a cost.
I can see how this could weigh on some people, and everyone's situation is different, but in my case it was just slices of other people's political views and (more often than not) photos of their pets and their lunch. In my case I just figured if I've lost touch with people over the years there's probably a reason. I don't mean that in any ill or dramatic way, and it's equally true from their side too. I'm not sure i…
That last part really hit me. Since deleting Instagram there’s definitely people I haven’t talked too but I wonder if it would’ve been beneficial to talk to them at all. Am I missing out?
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#94Even with positive intentions, I'm not convinced this will solve the problem in any meaningful way. Turning off likes might be perceived as someone being unhappy with their social media status relative to their peers (ie, not getting as many 'likes' as their friends), which signals its own stigma. Users will be forced into a new dilemma: Enable likes and accept the 'social media pressure', or announce to everyone tha…
It's the same thing as YouTube videos with comments disabled. "What are they hiding from?" becomes the question.
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#95Even with positive intentions, I'm not convinced this will solve the problem in any meaningful way. Turning off likes might be perceived as someone being unhappy with their social media status relative to their peers (ie, not getting as many 'likes' as their friends), which signals its own stigma. Users will be forced into a new dilemma: Enable likes and accept the 'social media pressure', or announce to everyone tha…
This is not for positive intentions. Instagram audience is getting old (like happened to FB) and they need to undercut platforms like TikTok. So they need to get into the untapped, and very promising, "children market". To do that they'll need to first correct everything that is wrong with instagram including features that helped it grow but now are seen as a negative influende on its users. But my guess is that they already know how to counter it with other "engagement acceleration" (aka addictive) features.
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#96Even with positive intentions, I'm not convinced this will solve the problem in any meaningful way. Turning off likes might be perceived as someone being unhappy with their social media status relative to their peers (ie, not getting as many 'likes' as their friends), which signals its own stigma. Users will be forced into a new dilemma: Enable likes and accept the 'social media pressure', or announce to everyone tha…
I disagree. I have my strava runs set to private because I've found the dynamic of others liking my runs affecting my thinking. I've also entirely disabled my Facebook wall. I don't have Instagram, but I would enable this immediately if I ever were to join.
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#97what I don't get about this is it seemed to me across multiple accounts that this has been in effect for a year maybe two! Gotten used to it, not news etc. I know, wasn't 'global' -- but when it's rolled out in major markets like US, Canada, probably a bunch of EU, Australia etc..... it's totally a normal thing by now. 2 years!
previous discussion about the roll out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21491648
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#98Or.. and hear me out here.. Just close your account completely? We’ve seen a great many of the people that built these systems come forward to explain that not only do they regret their role but that the harm being caused is worse than most people believe. I’ve also not seen or heard anyone (even people that currently work there) argue that these networks are in any way a net positive for society or the vast majority…
I get a lot of positive experiences an connections out of both Instagram and Facebook. I use them solely for hobby purposes though. I’m part or the largest Danish Blood Bowl 2 league and it’s all organised through Facebook. So is almost all our table top tournaments, and it’s really an wonderful community, even when you branch out into the warhammer general community in Denmark. I use Instagram solely for painting mi…
I can respect this, but then is it the case that SoMe is adding value to the community, or that you've just found a positive community that happens to use that service to communicate?
What I mean by that is, if your community was in touch via some other platform would it still be the same positive community? (My guess is, yes it would - but maybe there's some specific value from these tools that I don't see).
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#99Remember all the way back to 2013 when FB switched to the algo-driven Timeline instead of the Facebook wall newsfeed? A lot of people hated that update, as it fundamentally changed the user experience of FB permanently. But not me.
With Timeline, the wall post counter was no longer displayed on your profile. That had long been a source of embarrassment for me as so few people posted on my wall. It didn't matter IRL, but in college, you do feel that you're not doing something right if your page is so inactive compared to those of your peers. Was I really that uninteresting?
It was a proxy measure of my relative social popularity, and it sucked, because I had no interest in juicing these numbers. So they stayed low for years until the metric was finally hidden from view.
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#100Now we just need Spotify to hide play counts... These have a terrible effect on artists.
Yes, and also need to hide the speedometer in cars because my mother-in-law drives incredibly slowly and being a passenger has a negative effect on my mental health. We also need to abolish the "top apps" features in the various app stores because my apps didn't sell well and it had a terrible effect on me. We also need to ensure that everyone in the Formula 1 finishes at the same time, holding hands, because the "lo…
I thought I'd seen bad analogies before, but I had no idea what was possible.