- Facebook Inc’s FB unit, Instagram, has added the option to hide the number of likes on user’s feeds and their posts, which will also be incorporated in Facebook subsequently, Instagram wrote in a blog.
- The feature was targeted to relieve the pressure of users whose posts did not receive enough likes, TechCrunch reports.
- However, the feature has received mixed responses.
- Both content consumers and content producers can enable or disable Like, and View counts on Instagram posts. The feature will be allowed in the backdated posts too.
- Earlier this month, 44 attorney generals opposed the Instagram Youth launch targeted at the preteen group.
- Instagram will also consider hiding the like counts by default for users below eighteen.
- Price action: FB shares traded lower by 0.05% at $327.97 on the last check Wednesday.
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