Opinion: Instagram's latest changes prove it: social media isn’t really about us any more. It’s just a place we get marketed to | msmegwatson
But a much bigger part of the frustration is that these changes represent a fundamental shift in what the app is, especially when compared to what it promised us.
Instagram was supposed to be a living photo album; a place where you could trade snapshots of your life and keep up to date with the people you love and the people you’ve been weirdly stalking since high school. But as the platform pushes more and more “recommended” posts into our feeds to boost engagement, it pushes out the people we actually know and care about.Miss your old feed? You can get a version of it back by hitting the ‘Following’ button under the logo to the top left of your screen.
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