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May 26, 2021 01:00 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/26/22454428/facebook-instagram-hide-like-counts-feature-now-available
You can now hide like counts on Instagram and Facebook
You can now hide like counts on Instagram and Facebook. After years of testing on both platforms, Facebook and Instagram have settled on an opt-in experience for hiding like counts to allow people to disable seeing them across all posts and an option to hide their own public like counts from others.
Instagram is enabling this feature after years of tests and pressure from experts to make changes to its platform. The service was ranked as “the most detrimental to young people’s mental health and wellbeing” in a 2017 study by the Royal Society for Public Health UK. Experts have argued that removing a like button or like counts could help reduce anxiety and social pressures for some Facebook and Instagram users.
“We tested hiding like...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/26/22454428/facebook-instagram-hide-like-counts-feature-now-available
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