{"id":12092,"date":"2021-04-16T11:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T11:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12092"},"modified":"2021-04-16T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T11:28:53","slug":"instagram-and-facebook-allowed-hiding-likes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=12092","title":{"rendered":"Instagram and Facebook Allowed Hiding Likes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and Instagram are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/articles\/the-world-community-celebrates-the-day-of-environmental-knowledge\/\">thinking<\/a> about introducing the option to hide &#8220;likes&#8221;. The new feature is already being actively tested by users of the second of these social networks. The tests are carried out all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 16, 2021 \u2013 Technology<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Testing of the option to hide &#8220;likes&#8221; started at the end of the year before last. Then only Instagram users who were especially close to the developers could take part in the tests.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, the testing area spread to the whole world in general and Facebook in particular. If the tests are considered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/technology\/nasa-helicopter-successfully-landed-on-mars\/\">successful<\/a>, the regulars of both social networks will be able to choose the following modes of &#8220;like&#8221;, namely:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>leave the current content rating mode;<\/p>\n<p>not see the number of &#8220;likes&#8221; received by unauthorized users;<\/p>\n<p>to close the number of collected &#8220;likes&#8221; from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/ukraine-news\/a-pregnancy-test-for-blind-women\/\">outsiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of both social networks selected to participate in trials of the new opportunity will receive written invitations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/ukraine-news\/in-2020-21-investment-projects-were-implemented-in-vinnytsia-region\/\">implement<\/a> the option to hide &#8220;likes&#8221; in Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s company is explained by the desire to &#8220;focus users on the quality of the information provided.&#8221; This, allegedly, will allow not to be distracted by studying the popularity of posts and will relieve the temptation to artificially wind up &#8220;likes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/education\/the-popularity-of-construction-professions\/\">The Popularity of Construction Professions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and Instagram are thinking about introducing the option to hide &#8220;likes&#8221;. The new feature is already being actively tested by users of the second of these social networks. The tests are carried out all over the world. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; April 16, 2021 \u2013 Technology \u00a0 Testing of the option to hide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[393,5755,3546,5756,4509],"class_list":["post-12092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-hide","tag-instagram","tag-likes","tag-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}