How to Hide Like and View Counts on Instagram Posts

[steevn]

Snowflakes demand "safe spaces" in places they know are likely hostile to them. The snowflake move here is turning on the ability to hide the Likes/Comments while continuing to frequent the platform. Deleting/Abstaining from the thing causing you hard is the more reasonable choice here.

I believe the vast majority of people using social media know the harm it can cause, especially those who do need these filters. Obviously this is my own experience, but I’ve never met one person who didn’t know the damage that can be caused by social media.

Your definition of snowflake is not only incorrect but highly specific to how one political party likes to describe those who disagree with them.

The term snowflake is stupid and pointless, but a snowflake will quite literally avoid and pretend something doesn’t exist, so deleting the app because they don’t like they way it makes them feel is much more snowflake than using added features of an app.

My whole point is how so many are unwilling to learn and adapt to changes in daily life and culture/everything, and just choose to take the easy route instead of learning anything new to make it better for themselves and possibly inform others.

 

[amartinez1660]

These are nice additions and options available. I’m sure most people will say to delete these apps, but the simple fact is that just isn’t going to happen for most and isn’t even solving anything really.

I don’t understand people’s unwillingness to learn and adapt to new things and the only “cure” is to delete and pretend it doesn’t exist at all. This applies to much more than just apps.

Man really good points. Many people will continue using social media, period. Some for business, quick news briefing and others for fun. And those are all valid choices.

And regarding the option I am glad it exists, it won’t have a personal impact on me but I have young people in my family that seem to be concerned about how much their content is liked or not, so I welcome it.

but there isn't a way to disable this for future posts altogether?

Yes, good that there are these options, but like alexandr’s post is implying a bit... I think I find these options a bit backwards and gimped, somewhat incomplete?

I think it could have been enough to have a “hide the display and notifications of likes, tags, comments, etc” option. Let everybody else display their things however they see fit, let them like or not my own posts or their own posts; but show me, the user, an interface with none of that for my own and other’s posts.

But instead they spent several years testing “going post by post to hide the likes of them” and “disable likes for new posts”... maybe it’s a carefully psychologically researched thing. I use Instagram and Facebook maybe once a year, so I actually got no clue on this.

 

[alexandr]

Yes, good that there are these options, but like alexandr’s post is implying a bit... I think I find these options a bit backwards and gimped, somewhat incomplete?

I think it could have been enough to have a “hide the display and notifications of likes, tags, comments, etc” option. Let everybody else display their things however they see fit, let them like or not my own posts or their own posts; but show me, the user, an interface with none of that for my own and other’s posts.

But instead they spent several years testing “going post by post to hide the likes of them” and “disable likes for new posts”... maybe it’s a carefully psychologically researched thing. I use Instagram and Facebook maybe once a year, so I actually got no clue on this.

exactly. it would be much easier to have the option to hide, and potentially a second option to hide for all of the previous posts. who wants to retroactively go from post to post and edit them — that could take days ))

 

[TrowaNY]

They could also just adjust the algorithm so that your posts are seen by more of your real followers 🤷🏽‍♂️

 

[CarpalMac]

Interesting how any article relating to Google and you are guaranteed a torrent of the comments (certainly the most liked ones...) declaring how "Google isn't cashing in on my valuable data" and how evil they are, despite them at least offering a wealth of time and money saving services.

The likes of Facebook however seem to get a free pass on such criticism, despite being significantly worse through their actively collecting and selling of their users data, whilst only offering limited services, services that can actually have a negative impact on people's mental wellbeing.

Study shows Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn share the most data with third parties

According to pCloud study, Instagram exchanges 79 percent of the data it gathers with third parties.

www.digitalinformationworld.com

Not that I am a huge Google fan, their capricious approach to killing off services and half baked hardware frustrates me, but I guess despite Apple's and some forums members here's attempts to say otherwise, privacy just isn't all that important. Just so long as it isn't Google or Amazon benefitting.

 

[k1121j]

Is it just me or are they turning on a feature they turned off months ago? ……Introducing the all new old like counts!!!

if you ask me Facebook had been trying to kill IG until what seems like new privacy restrictions on iPhone.

 

[GeoStructural]

Interesting how any article relating to Google and you are guaranteed a torrent of the comments (certainly the most liked ones...) declaring how "Google isn't cashing in on my valuable data" and how evil they are, despite them at least offering a wealth of time and money saving services.

The likes of Facebook however seem to get a free pass on such criticism, despite being significantly worse through their actively collecting and selling of their users data, whilst only offering limited services, services that can actually have a negative impact on people's mental wellbeing.

Study shows Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn share the most data with third parties

According to pCloud study, Instagram exchanges 79 percent of the data it gathers with third parties.

www.digitalinformationworld.com

Not that I am a huge Google fan, their capricious approach to killing off services and half baked hardware frustrates me, but I guess despite Apple's and some forums members here's attempts to say otherwise, privacy just isn't all that important. Just so long as it isn't Google or Amazon benefitting.

LinkedIn is the worst data hoarder, I truly despise them, the fact that I have an account I never created is infuriating to begin with, then they send you tons of emails and even unsubscribing or blocking them they get their way in through a slightly different sender.

Many people call on Google for privacy concerns but at least Google does need some user data for functionality, LinkedIn doesn't, and yet they send these requests to access your location, Bluetooth, contacts, etc. for no good reason.

 

[CarpalMac]

LinkedIn is the worst data hoarder, I truly despise them, the fact that I have an account I never created is infuriating to begin with, then they send you tons of emails and even unsubscribing or blocking them they get their way in through a slightly different sender.

Many people call on Google for privacy concerns but at least Google does need some user data for functionality, LinkedIn doesn't, and yet they send these requests to access your location, Bluetooth, contacts, etc. for no good reason.

I have heard of that before, something along the lines of a partial registration (e.g. received an invite) or possibly someone mistyped an email address and ended up setting up a preliminary account with yours. I've had that with quite a few sites. You should be able to log in though and permanently delete your address off the system.

LinkedIn in too full of Muppets to be useful. Lots of made up stories, humblebrags and Pointless "agree?" posts. It's trash.

 

[return2sendai]

This feature has been available for 10 years. Just delete Instagram.