Facebook started to hide the number of "Like"

The number of "likes" or "likes" is usually (unfortunately) a good reflection
the apparent "quality" of publications. If a photo, a video or
publication receives hundreds of "I like" is that it has succeeded, but if the
The amount received is small, the feeling is quite opposite. And that does not have to
To be necessarily like that. For prevent users from feeling
judged almost constantly, Mark Zuckerberg's company is
Experiment with other solutions. Among them is to eliminate the number of
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One of the first moves in this direction has been the incorporation of
reactions And recently, we saw that Instagram was already starting
hide the tastes in different countries. Now it's Facebook itself that
is experiment with hiding the amount of "likes" from the diet of
publications.

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Jane Manchun Wong, engineer, discovered the change.
subsequently confirmed by Facebook in response to Techcrunch. Instead of
to display the number of tastes, the information will simply appear
about people who reacted to a message but not
the number of times that they have done will appear.

Facebook is also striving to hide as accounts! Https: //t.co/WnUrM12aZg
Trick @Techmeme pic.twitter.com/TdT73wT6A0

– Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) September 2, 2019

The goal would be the equivalent of Instagram, where you want to avoid comparison between those who have a lot of tastes and those who do not have one.

We are currently doing a test that masks the total number of likes and views of videos for some people in the following countries:
✅ Australia
✅ Brazil

✅ Canada
✅ Ireland
✅ Italy
✅ Japan
✅ New Zealand pic.twitter.com/2OdzpIUBka
– Instagram (@instagram) July 17, 2019

Via the Facebook application for Androidthe
engineer detected these changes where some users see as
I do not like the number of "likes" anymore. While they still make the number
of comments and the number of times that the article has been shared.

Facebook has not been informed of these tests or what
country is on trial. Yes, we know that the tests have been activated
officially on Instagram, but we do not know it will be extended to other countries
nor what kind of results did they get from these tests.

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said that with this change he was looking for
Minimize the stress of publishing something online. True stress as
different point of studies.

On the other hand, this movement also involves hiding an essential fact in the
Using Facebook. The use of the social network has continued to grow according to the numbers
official, but the popularity of Facebook among the youngest has decreased.
Hiding the number of tastes is a strategy for to follow
now the appearance that the social network is as used as
always, even though the messages are becoming each
less "likes". Unfortunately, these data are not among those
Facebook shares periodically.