After Google’s new digital initiative taken to make sure you spend more time with friends and family instead of your screens. Instagram is now planning something similar too!
TechCrunch a Technology based site has found a “Code buried in Instagram’s Android app reveals a “Usage Insights” feature that will show users their “time spent”.
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has confirmed the upcoming feature with a tweet that said, “It’s true.”
It’s true. RT @TechCrunch: Code buried in Instagram’s Android app reveals a “Usage Insights” feature that will show users their “time spent” https://t.co/1Lt3DgIFEj
— Kevin S. (@kevin) May 16, 2018
Systrom continued to explain via two more tweets. “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,” he wrote.
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 S. (@kevin) May 16, 2018
The second noted that time spent online impact people and that his company wants to be honest about it.
Understanding how time online impacts people is important, and it’s the responsibility of all companies to be honest about this. We want to be part of the solution. I take that responsibility seriously.
— Kevin S. (@kevin) May 16, 2018
Whether all this new attention to screen time is genuinely motivated by an interest in people’s actual well being or not, we still hope that our devices don’t nag us too much!
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