Instagram is launching a new button to report the contents that we don’t like and that we want to disappear from our feed. The risk is that it goes to feed ideological isolation by definitively closing us in our Echo Chamber.
If you have nothing good to say, it is better to keep silentsays an old adage. And on the basis of this principle of wisdom, most of the social networks have built their empire. Reason why there is a button “I like“And there is no” I don’t like the button “. So far. In fact. Instagram has announced that soon on the platform it will be possible”disloc“. The new pulsane is in the test phase and will be a way, explains the company, to allow you to report a content or a comment that is not satisfaction or that users do not consider relevant.
Instagram is not the first, for example YouTube had the “I don’t like” button but then he hid the public leaving the sparks visible only to the authors, but also Reddit, X have a system to report the contents that do not interest. The declared objective of the button is to help users a filter the contentstherefore report it is what you want to see but also what you prefer to avoid. Not only that, in addition to customized customization (even more), the key will allow, according to destination, to Reduce the number of negative comments Under the posts.
If even the final purpose seems noble, the side effects may not be as much. The risk of an invisible key that simply Delete what we don’t like is to close us more and more a bubble ideology. The Echo Chamber effect (ecosystem in which information and beliefs are amplified or strengthened by communication and repetition within a defined system) is already rooted on social media. The key I don’t like it could isolate us even more by putting others Two slices of ham above our eyes.
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The Instagram manager Adam Mosseri He explained in a post on Threads that the company will not show the count of the I don’t like and nobody will know who he put it. “We are testing the new button that will appear next to Comments on Instagram: will offer people a private way for report that they do not feel good about that particular comment. I want to be clear: This is a testthere is no one I don’t like a count, nor will nobody know if you touch the button. In the end, we could integrate this signal in the comments ranking to move the comments I don’t like it lower. Our hope is that this can help Make the comments more friendly on Instagram“.
“We are working on ways to help people control Better their experience on Instagram And what they see on the app, “added the company spokesman.” We are testing a new button next to any comment on a post by Reel or Feed to allow people to report privately not to feel comfortable with that particular comment or find it relevant. We are testing this with a group very small of people to start“. It is not yet clear the weight that Instagram will give to these votes, much more defined instead Directorate taken from the platform: a country of toys with cascades of hearts. Under the carpet instead, like dust, Everything we don’t like.
