In May this year, Facebook-owned Instagram announced it was giving users the option of hiding the “Likes” count. Prior to that, it had experimented for about 2 years with the same.
What Instagram really learned from hiding like counts – the verge.com
In April 2019, amid growing questions about the effects of social networks on mental health, Instagram announced it would test a feed without likes. The person posting an image on the network would still see how many people had sent it a heart, but the total number of hearts would remain…
Link: What Instagram really learned from hiding like counts
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