How important do you have to be to make the leaders of a massive social network change their minds? If this week was any indication, it appears all you have to do is be Kylie Jenner and have 360 million followers on Instagram, writes navalang.
How important do you have to be to make the leaders of a massive social network change their minds?
When Kim Kardashian joined the fray to echo the same complaints — that Instagram had stopped being a place to just see photos of your friends and instead a place more filled with videos and ads and shopping — Instagram had to act. If one is not a frequent user of the service it can all sound a little arcane or unimportant, but in truth, the kerfuffle is simply the result of a large company again pivoting in the face of competitive threats and market conditions — this time from the explosive of growth of short-form video app, TikTok.
Then the platforms “scale up” — that tech term for amassing tens or hundreds of millions of users. The flood of people changes the nature of the platform. You have to use algorithms to sort through all the content and the mix of so many different types of people increases the amount of conflict. Bad actors use easy loopholes in rules to harass or harm people.
Yet, part of the change here is an ever-increasing tilt toward more immediate, temporarily satisfying content — in this case, the short-form video on TikTok. There, clips of comedy, dancing, boasting or preening, politics and more occupy one’s attention. Rather than friends, you see instead content the company’s algorithm thinks you might like. Instagram has followed suit putting videos and clips into people’s feeds. This is in fact the crux of people’s complaints about the service.
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