A larger question looms as well: Wow will #ads play into this?

“We’ve been experimenting with Favorites, a way for you to decide whose posts you want to see higher up, and we’re working on another option to see posts from people you follow in chronological order.”īut while that change - which seemingly doesn’t prioritize the all-knowing (often too-knowing) algorithm, hearkens back to early-day Instagram, this change signals a future that’s more customizable, less spontaneous and ultimately will probably encourage us to spend even more time on the app. “We want people to have meaningful control over their experience,” CEO Adam Mosseri said in a statement last month. (It’s all very exhausting.) The new features comes after Instagram launched a transparent and futile attempt at usurping TikTok’s power with “Reels” and announced its going to start exploring bringing back the chronological feed, the later maybe the only good idea to come from the same company that wanted to bring us Instagram Kids has had in years. Gone are the days when you strategically post different photos to create color-coordinated triptychs, and even more gone are the days when you just.posted whatever without thinking about photos in terms of how they interact with other photos. Culturally, the tides are favoring TikTok and Twitter, so the photo-sharing app turned meme graveyard turned marketplace is exploring a shiny, unnecessary new feature for its users: the ability to rearrange grid posts in any order. Instagram, owned by Meta, which was formally known as Facebook, is a company that’s desperate to hold onto its reign over social media.

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