Instagram now allows you to see the Reels to which our contacts have liked. Accessing the section is simple: just open the Reel and follow the indications. Staying inside is a little more difficult: the feeling is to enter without permission in another person’s algorithm. Remember some functions of the Meta social networks that had been eliminated some time ago.
In recent weeks Instagram has started distribute a function which has passed a little unnoticed. There have not been Great adsdedicated campaigns or promotions. It has simply arrived, it seems above all in the smartphones that use the Android operating system. Yet it’s interesting and remember one Old function of goal which had been eliminated in recent years. With the new Instagram functions you can see what I like your contacts.
The new section does not work for all content. You can only see i I like it by your contacts on the Reelsthe short videos that are otherwise decided by the Instagram algorithm. These are the steps to reach it:
- Open Instagram
- Open the Reel section
- At the top right there is one series of icons of contacts with a heart below
- Click on this series of icons
- To this inspiration you start a Watch the videos
- At the bottom left you will see which of your contacts have Put like the content
What we would have preferred not to know about our contacts
Scroll all the videos to which our contacts have put like It is not the best for privacy. Of course, in the scrolling sections it can happen to cross a reel To which one of our contacts has put like but so the research becomes all too easy. After a few scrolls The feeling was strange: it seems to sneak without permission in the Algorithms of others.
Instagram launches the button I don’t like: it risks making our social networks even more closed
The functions abandoned from destination to see what others did
In the past Meta had equipped its social networks with tools to see what other users did. On Instagram there was a section called Follow. Once you enter it it was possible to see all the activities of our contacts. You could see i likes to postsfollows to the pages, comments and interactions with other users. The closure of the following section was Announced in 2019.
Facebook also had an internal search engine: Facebook Graph Search. It was discreetly powerful and allowed to do research within the platform also on the activities conducted by our contacts. Facebook Graph Search has been abandoned for more comfortable solutions to use and less powerful.
