{"id":32816,"date":"2019-11-14T22:04:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=32816"},"modified":"2019-11-14T22:04:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T22:04:07","slug":"instagram-hides-likes-in-new-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/instagram-hides-likes-in-new-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram hides \u2018likes\u2019 in new update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social media app has taken away the public view of how many \u2018likes\u2019 a photo has received and replaced it with the word \u2018others\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Only those who own the account will be able to see how many people have interacted with their photo by going on to the like section on the post.<\/p>\n<p>The update was rumoured to happen in previous months and has now been applied, shocking those who doubted it.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter reactions show the update to be a good thing, while others seem distressed by the change.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/brealienxx\/status\/1195097915712131073?s=20<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/escobraa\/status\/1195097841812811777?s=20<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honestly Instagram Taking away Likes Is Genius.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Taylor Bennett (@_TaylorBennett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_TaylorBennett\/status\/1195082013390393351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words: Drew-Alexandra O\u2019Keeffe<\/p>\n<p>Image: Pexels &#8211; Omkar Patyane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social media app has taken away the public view of how many \u2018likes\u2019 a photo has received and replaced it with the word \u2018others\u2019. Only those who own the account will be able to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":32817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,97,114,122],"tags":[3171,3769,4098,4450,5728,6538,6753],"class_list":["post-32816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-photography","category-society","category-tech-news","tag-instagram","tag-london","tag-mental-health","tag-news","tag-society","tag-uk","tag-voice-of-london"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}