According to the social network, which appeals mainly to the millennial generation, people fail to notice an average of 70% of what happens on their feed because the larger the community of users, the more hard it is to follow all the images and clips posted on the platform.
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This means that Instagram will choose what to show you and when – essentially mirroring Facebook’s news feed. The goal it to ensure you don’t miss out, or tire yourself by endlessly thumbing down through an infinite number of selfies, pictures of brunch, photos of old buildings or other stuff you really don’t care about. If you aren’t ready for this change yet, you could always turn off auto update in the Google Play Store, thus the Instagram app won’t update without your permission.
With the new algorithm, the “best” posts will appear higher in the user’s feed.
A few months ago, much to the dismay of the internet’s content creators, Instagram announced a plan to reorder your timeline with an algorithm similar to Facebook’s news feed. The algorithm is also said to look at your relationship with the poster, and your previous engagement with them. It claims to have initiated the change to help users keep up with the volume of photos shared to their feeds every day.
Over the weekend, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site unleashed a new algorithm that rearranges the order of posts to show you the “best” content first. The change, which Instagram first announced in March, has proved to be controversial among Instagram’s user base, who worry that their followers may not see their posts.
If you search for a certain athlete, like LeBron James, or even a friend, then Instagram has another signal that you’re likely interested in posts from that person or company.
Instagram recently redesigned their logo, changing it from the classic skeuomorphic image of a Polaroid camera everyone had grown to recognize and love into a pretty colorful one.
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It pledged to take the thoughts of users into account.
