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Instagram Takes Away Likes
There was another argument that I read where they were trying to, like, the community on Instagram is just like clicking a button for a like or watching something or tapping through or whatnot, and it wasn't like this personal connection that you were building. So they were trying to, like, you know, make sure that people were posting content that were making other people feel like they're more part of a community, not just like a like or a tap or something. Like they were trying to change the content or get more content that people could engage with.
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Could you imagine? That doesn't make any sense.
What about Facebook? Does Facebook still have likes? Yeah, but it's crazy because Instagram doesn't. Instagram, Facebook owns Instagram. Why would they do that?
Twitter used to work in a way where you wouldn't be able to see the likes unless you clicked on the tweet. And then it would reveal the favorites, and then they went backwards, and now you can see the likes on every tweet without even clicking on it, while In…
There was another argument that I read where they were trying to, like, the community on Instagram is just like clicking a button for a like or watching something or tapping through or whatnot, and it wasn't like this personal connection that you were building. So they were trying to, like, you know, make sure that people were posting content that were making other people feel like they're more p…
To be fair, though, when you watch a TV show like Friends or anything like that, there's never a viewership count under it, right? There's never an amount of people that are liking it. The show just fucking plays and you watch it.
Television's fucking dead.
Yeah, you're right.