Hacking Photography - one Picture at a time
Instagram recently introduced a bunch of new features under “Your Activity.” One of them tracks your time on the app and enables you to set a reminder when you reach your daily time limit.
However, Instagram has quietly changed the minimum time limit you can set. Surprise, surprise – it looks like the app isn’t really eager for you to take a break after all. Or at least not so soon.
Meta has introduced yet another new feature to Instagram. From now on, users will be able to “like” Stories – but the reactions won’t be landing into Inbox anymore.
There is now going to be a separate area for Story likes, and you and your followers won’t be cluttering up each other’s DMs any longer. Finally, right?
After allowing you to delete comments in bulk, Instagram has now expanded this possibility to… well, everything. From now on, you can go back and delete a whole bunch of your photos, videos, reels, stories in just a few clicks.
Can you remember what the world was like before Instagram and Facebook? Well, you might experience it soon, at least if you live in Europe. Due to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Meta might not get permission to transfer, store and process data from its European users on US-based servers. If the solution is not found, the people in Europe might say bye-bye to Facebook and Instagram.
A new Instagram scam seems to be going around, and it’s pretty serious. It’s a good old phishing scam, designed to look just like a message from Instagram. But the scammers behind it will hijack your account and ask for money to give it back to you – and it goes up to $40,000.
A Connecticut woman has filed a lawsuit against Snap and Meta, Facebook and Instagram parent company. The woman claims that Snapchat and Instagram caused a strong addiction in her 11-year-old daughter that eventually led her to take her own life in July 2021.
After some hints of paid Instagram content, now it’s officially a thing. This week, Instagram is launching Subscriptions, a feature for creators that lets them charge for their Stories and live streams and play them only for those who pay the subscription.
I was chatting to a friend who told me a story about how her much younger cousin had escaped on holiday to somewhere tropical as an antidote to this whole pandemic thing. Sounds pretty idyllic, I said. Except apparently, the entire trip was (according to the cousin) “a disaster” because the girl’s poor boyfriend was so terrible at taking photos that she didn’t end up with a “single good photo” of herself for her social media. The photos were so bad apparently, that even a beauty filter couldn’t save them!
Like the holiday, that relationship is probably doomed, and not because of inferior photography skills. That’s apparently where we are at now as a species, with a large number of people obsessing over their looks and not wanting to post anything but perfect-looking, heavily enhanced and filtered images.
Have you ever thought how cool it would be to customize your Instagram grid and rearrange the posts you’ve published so far? Well, you just might be able to do it soon. According to Alessandro Paluzzi’s recent discovery, Instagram is working on a customizable grid.
After announcing the return of chronological feed, Instagram has finally lived up to its promise. The platform has rolled out the global test, so some of you can now choose between three different feeds, including the one that arranges the posts in chronological order.
FIND THIS INTERESTING? SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS!