Instagram will remove Likes

[benjaminpowell507]

It will take some time to fully implement this kind of update.

 

[nickito]

Honestly, it's a dumb idea....I don't get how the people who run these types of companies agree to implement such features.. So stupid.

 

[sshvps]

Honestly, it's a dumb idea....I don't get how the people who run these types of companies agree to implement such features.. So stupid.

They are just trying to protect their country from the Great Depression 2

 

[ad149]

Outside of communities like this one, for blatantly obvious reasons, this has actually been getting a ton of positive feedback from users. One of the reasons that Facebook claims they decided to implement this, is because of the growing depression epidemic that's tied to social media. Which, depression rates are now astronomical and quite a significant portion of that has been tied to the dopamine effect post "likes."

Everyone from teenage girls, to artist, to businesses, can breathe a sigh of relief if their picture doesn't get over a certain number of likes. And let's not kid ourselves, content isn't necessarily always king. 9 times out of 10, it's just not. No matter how good it is, you have to do something truly unique to stand out.

It's mostly marketing. Which is precisely why we do what we do, and why there is an ungodly amount of money to be made from it. There are so many fantastic content creators out there, such as photographers that take amazing photos, in which no matter how good their stuff is, will never go viral, and will never hit triple digit likes. Removing a public like counter, will take away a lot of that anxiety with posting, thus leading to more content, and more time on the platform from users.

And influencers are going to be totally unfazed by this. They can just share their metrics like webmasters.

You have made a fantastic point.

I believe that it will be a bad and a good thing at the same time for us marketers as well because:
BAD - targeting people who liked a certain post (obviously)

GOOD - with the same method of getting our posts in the explore/feed pages, actual likes number will not matter, thus giving the same advantage to both major corporations and micro accounts.

Content will be KING.
Marketing will be EMPEROR.

Users will not care anymore about number of likes as long as we make a good job at making HQ content and use IG's algorithms in our advantage (hashtags, engagement groups, etc)


To add I believe that the nunber of comments will be the most if only indicator of a post's success

 

[msyaz]

Botting? Experimented it in 2011 and never like it. The money made doesnt substantiate the hard work and the trouble I have to go through (ie consistent banning of accounts).

Real money is made doing things the white hat way. Okay not exactly white, a darker shade of white and some gray hat at most if I want to game the system.

 

[ad149]

Botting? Experimented it in 2011 and never like it. The money made doesnt substantiate the hard work and the trouble I have to go through (ie consistent banning of accounts).

Real money is made doing things the white hat way. Okay not exactly white, a darker shade of white and some gray hat at most if I want to game the system.

Just because you didn't have success doesn't mean it's dead.

With local SIMs and HQ 4g proxies, clean content and accounts hand created there is minimal risk and pretty decent outcome

 

[msyaz]

Just because you didn't have success doesn't mean it's dead.

With local SIMs and HQ 4g proxies, clean content and accounts hand created there is minimal risk and pretty decent outcome

I didn't say its dead. I said the amount of money made from botting social media doesn't substantiate the amount of work and hassle I had to go through.

Prefer doing things white hat + some grey hat tactics because I can make more money with less work as compared to doing things purely blackhat.

 

[RK]

Post would look weird without Likes Count

 

[rebornasnoob]

can't see likes being removed from fb and ig. how are they going to feed the algo?