Instagram calls for kindness with four new features
Social media platform Instagram today launched four new tools to in an attempt to formulate a kinder, more supportive and positive community.
The new Instagram Together support page
Instagram implemented a new sensitive content screen, a safety centre, wellness InstaMeets and the two-factor authentication tool this morning.
Wellness InstaMeets have been a feature of the American Instagram community where individual users can gather together to share their mutual passions, with Instagram now announcing it will be bringing the initiative to Canberra and Melbourne.
That’s wonderful except that Instagram has locked it’s users out of their accounts. Way to go Instagram! grrrrrr
If they truly want a safer more positive community they could look to modifying or setting restrictions on the search page. To have no control over the content that gets served there seems more problematic to me than content or ads within your feed. Especially if you consider the volume of <18 users. Both Facebook and Instagram really are playing catch-up when it comes to user safety and they're still very far behind the 8-ball.