INFLUENCE AS PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS“We don’t want Instagram to feel like a competition,” Mr Mosseri said at F8. In earlier incarnations, both Twitter and Instagram presented users with simple chronological feeds, and visible metrics also provided secondary sorting mechanics. Instagram without quantified likes might have been nicer, in some way. But it would not have produced the Instagram we know today, and certainly not the Instagram purchased by Facebook for a billion dollars, which became the Instagram of influencers, which is the Instagram of status anxiety, which is the Instagram of more than a billion users. For users, numbers are power.

Source: bd News24 June 01, 2019 05:26 UTC