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The 'Following' tab on Instagram that lets you see what the people you follow are engaging with has been removed.
Adam Mosseri, CEO, Instagram announced the tab's removal. He mentioned that the dismissal is an effort to stay focussed and keep Instagram simple.
The tab was created to help people discover new posts and accounts their friends engage with. Although, a few confessional tweets suggest that the tab was used to stalk partners apart from learning what people were up to in general.
The user-reactions upon the removal? Splits. According to the Twitter reactions, half of the users are upset about the removal, as they convey the app is 'boring' without it, and how are they going to know what their friends or partners like and a user says "How am I going to know which girls' pictures is he liking?".
Half of the users want the tab back for the above mentioned and many more reasons. There are also many who are 'quite' happy about it. They share that now they can engage with whatever they want and like whatever they 'like' without being judged.
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There is also a small group of people who mention that they don't really care if the tab stays or not, as they never used it.
It is uncertain and highly unlikely that the platform would bring the tab back to appeal to the users asking for it, although the reactions are surely hilarious.
Stalkers After Instagram Removes Activity Tab for Following Account:- pic.twitter.com/QZkpK9yNIq
— Hakuna Matata (@BhardwajDiv9) October 9, 2019
pretty sure it was a man’s idea to delete the following tab on instagram
— luz🥴 (@beltranluz18) October 9, 2019
Instagram got rid of the following tab so you can’t see what your friends like.
— Jay 🦍⚛️ (@jayhall242) October 9, 2019
So if twitter could do that, that would be great.
Instagram removed following activity tab
— Muhammad Rehan🔥🔥 (@rehanm601) October 9, 2019
Stalker: pic.twitter.com/uCrZ1sgVjs
Instagram removes it's following activity tab. Now everybody like and following everything 😁 pic.twitter.com/bdyRC2NKMu
— Phuposays (@Phuposays) October 9, 2019
every girl rn going to stalk their bf and realising instagram took the following tab away pic.twitter.com/OgfczMo60L
— Beginning Boutique (@bboutique) October 10, 2019
i honestly never was in the “following” tab on instagram i never cared about what my followers were liking or who they were following. not my business
— . (@A_Geechi) October 10, 2019
i feel like i’m the only one who’s never used the following tab that instagram got rid of and everyone’s freaking out over. y’all really care about what other people are doing on there that much, huh? that sounds time consuming and nosey. seriously can’t relate.
— jenna (@jenuhh124) October 9, 2019