Facebook-owned Instagram is now introducing a new recommendations feature. Based on a user’s activity, the app will offer recommendations based on the people you follow and photos and videos you like.
Facebook-owned Instagram is now introducing a new recommendations feature. Based on a user’s activity, the app will offer recommendations based on the people you follow and photos and videos you like.
Instagram mentioned in a blog post, “Our goal is to make Feed the best place to share and connect with the people and interests that matter most to you. Now with recommended posts, you can see even more of what’s being shared by our community. This test will be rolling out over the next few days. We’ll be making product revisions based on your feedback and hope to bring this to more people in the coming weeks.”
Users will see recommended posts at the end of the Feed, after they have seen everything new from people they follow. When you see the “Recommended For You” message, you will have the option to view your past posts or keep scrolling for your recommendations.
Both, Facebook and Instagram are coming up with a new dashboard that will show you the total time you have spent on the app. The new feature will also allow you to temporarily mute the push notifications.
According to a report by The Verge, the new features called 'Your time on Facebook' (Facebook) and 'Your activity' (Instagram), are designed to deal with the issue of addiction. While the feature will be launched worldwide after a couple of weeks, it has been made available, for a dry run, to 1 percent of the users. A screenshot of this feature leaked last month.
On facebook, the feature will be listed under the hamburger menu (three vertical lines in the bottom-right corner of the app) while on Instagram it will be a part of the setting menu. The dashboard will present a bar chart that will show you the time you have spent on the app in the past seven days. It will also allow you to set the length of time you want to spend on that particular app and will send you a reminder once you reach that limit.
Ameet Ranadive, leader of the Intagram team devoted to users well-being, said, "We want these tools to be widely available to the whole community and to anyone that would benefit from using them. It's really important for people that use Instagram and Facebook to feel like the time that they spend with us is time well spent. That's the whole purpose of this release."
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