Confirm that Instagram will stop displaying tastes

He advanced it TN Tecno there is a little over a week: Instagram was testing stop showing the "I like" which receives a publication, so that people stop being so attentive to this number, that it does not measure if a content is interesting or not.

Now the company has confirmed: In Canada, some people will begin to experience this change in the coming days, and it is likely that the novelty will reach the rest of the world in the short term. Users who receive the change in the application will see a notification that will inform "the change in the way you see the likes".

As part of Facebook's F8 conference, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri confirmed this paradigm shift. "We are doing this test because we want the followers of a profile to focus on the photos and videos that they share, not on the number of tastes that they receive," he said. a spokesman for the company. TechCrunch.

Anyway, likes will continue to exist: every user will be able to see how much of his publications I like. What is changing the platform will not show them publicly.

For influencers, who surely need to show "commitment" to their publications to customers, the social network will see the results of a publication, in the same way that it currently offers. Other data, such as the number of clicks, visualizations or access to a site. link in a story.

The best thing about this change is that users they would stop feeling pressured by publishing images that look like them, and they can download what they like the most.