In the midst of the conversations around the digital well-being of smartphone users, it seems that since Instagram They will join the trend and are working on new tools in this regard.
Digital well-being, the next battlefront
It is a reality that we spend a lot of time using our cell phones. On the one hand, it is logical that this should happen, since we are talking about the modern Swiss army knife, a tool capable of everything that offers us almost unlimited access to the largest sources of information in the world and that helps us to be much more productive in our day to day life. day. Used well, smartphones can help us bring out the best in ourselves.
However, this can work for and against. As a general rule, apps tend to get too much of our attention, abusing methods that make us enter them every day or notifications so that we can use them again if we have not entered them for a long time. So much that many times we want delete apps like Instagram and free ourselves a little. Companies seem to be already aware of this, and the digital well-being it is beginning to become more important. Google is doing it with Android P and now it seems that in Instagram they add to the game.
Instagram will offer tools to better control the time you spend using its application
The CEO and founder of Instagram reported on the company's intentions for the future with the following tweet:
We're building tools that will help the IG community know more about the time they spend on Instagram - any time should be positive and intentional.
- Kevin Systrom (@kevin) May 16, 2018
We are working on tools that will help the IG community know more about their time on Instagram - any time should be positive and intentional.
It is very interesting to point out the last words of that tweet, which come to say that The time you spend on Instagram should be of your own free will and, above all, of quality. Nothing to waste time: if you are, it is because you want to. And no junk content and abuse: if you go in, have a good time.
Obviously you can't tell which methods it will use Instagram for all this, but it is not difficult to think that he takes inspiration from what he is already doing Google. On the one hand, a Desk where you can see the time you spend with your mobile will help to check how we spend our time. In turn, reminders like those of YouTube Being told from time to time to stop using the app may be another method to consider. Whatever it is, we'll get to know more over the next few months.
Instagram is testing "Usage Insights" to show the amount of time users have spent on the app
Be self-aware or be prepared to be ashamed for Instagram addiction pic.twitter.com/WzyRGWIOgZ
- Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 15, 2018
