BIG Changes Coming To Instagram And Facebook This Year

Facebook Developers Conference held at the end of April/early May (0:28)

An experiment was run to Get rid of like counts on Instagram (2:37)

Instagram announced at its F8 developer conference today that it’ll start testing a new feature later this week that’ll hide users’ public like counts on videos and photos. (2:55)

Likes are a currency on social; devalue the currency - upend the culture (3:22)

Problem #1: Do it for the gram - Iceland/Scotland trip research - the performative nature of IG (3:59)

Problem #2: Like for like (6:48)

New Facebook app design Is called FB5 - it’s cleaner, faster, and isn’t blue anymore (13:23)

For the longest time, I’ve said ”The only reason I use Facebook is because of groups” - both as a consumer AND a publisher (14:08)

Good #1: Less emphasis on news stories generating outrage (16:05)

Good #2: Focus on communities (16:48)

Why is this important? Americans are very unhappy "Happiness and life satisfaction among United Stated adolescents which increases between 1991 and 2011, suddenly declined after 2012" (19:05)

Correlation does not equal causation (19:25)

The responsibility falls on the social platforms, the parents/leaders, and the church (22:05)