Facebook started hiding number of likes, The largest social network on the planet began experimenting with turning off the likes of posts with the desire to reduce the envy of users.
According to Tech Crunch, this feature has been implemented since dawn on September 27 in Australia. The number of likes on the post will be hidden, showing only the name of the user who liked it.
The author still sees the number of likes on his own posts, but other users can only see who has liked and responded. If you receive positive feedback and users feel happier, Facebook will apply widely to many other areas.
“We are experimenting with hiding likes, reactions and watching videos on Facebook. We will probe users’ feedback to see if this provides a better experience,” a Facebook spokesperson talked to Tech Crunch.
How Facebook started hiding number of likes
In early September, Facebook confirmed it was considering turning off the likes of posts after mobile app researcher Jane Manchun Wong discovered a hidden feature in the Android app’s source code.
According to her, people can still press to see the full list of people who like and respond to the post (and manually count), but the number of likes will no longer be displayed on the News Feed.
Removing this counter helps reduce anxiety and depression associated with social media use. Facebook users are still jealous of each other based on the number of likes.
Turning off the likes also helps users focus on the content of the article rather than pay too much attention to the number of likes. From there they boldly share their lives.
Instagram – the Facebook-owned photo social network, experimented with turning off the likes of this year in Canada and expanded to other areas when it found users responded positively to this.
However, The Verge said that all of Facebook and Instagram’s experiments aim to maintain the number of users as large as possible, instead of helping them improve the quality of life. So, turning off the like count is only widely applied if it makes people prefer to use Facebook.
Nguyen Hieu
* Source: Zing News