{"id":1024,"date":"2019-10-24T14:59:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2019-10-24T14:59:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:59:33","slug":"facebook-instagram-likely-hide-like-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/facebook-instagram-likely-hide-like-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM LIKELY TO HIDE LIKE COUNTS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Social networking platforms Facebook and Instagram, both are considering removing the like counts from their posts. Starting from Australia, they will expand to other countries depending on how things go. As reported in Techcrunch, users posting the content will be able to view their like counts but it won\u2019t be displayed publicly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are running a limited test where like, reaction and video view counts are made private across Facebook\u201d, a Facebook spokesperson says. \u201cWe will gather feedback to understand whether this change will improve people\u2019s experiences.\u201d If this test improves people\u2019s sense of well-being without affecting user engagement, it could expand to more countries or even roll out to everyone. However, no further tests are currently scheduled.<\/p>\n

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Our Takeaway:<\/strong> Whether users are happy with this change or not, only time will tell.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social networking platforms Facebook and Instagram, both are considering removing the like counts from their posts. Starting from Australia, they will expand to other countries depending on how things go. As reported in Techcrunch, users posting the content will be able to view their like counts but it won\u2019t be displayed publicly. \u201cWe are running […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[96,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}