🚨 Breaking: Social media updates that matter most

First, thank you SO much to everyone who filled out the survey from last week. You’re all stars and I loveyouverymuch. I’m working on a *~refresh~* that’s coming soon and I know you’ll love it!

Second, holy cow, social media news went off this week. Particularly, Meta. They really weren’t messing around this week. From new features to Zuckerberg being one of the most hated people in America to Meta trying (and failing) to make Facebook cool again. Do they get sleep over there? It sure doesn’t seem like it. 

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Instagram knows that the best way to keep users engaged on its platform is through DMs, which is why it keeps releasing new features in the DMs.

Last week, Instagram released so. many. features. So much so that I have to dedicate this whole section to the new features. 

How many times can I say “features”?

It seems like IG is trying to compete and be the #1 messaging app for friends and family (even competing with Meta’s other messaging app, WhatsApp … strange). 

Now, what new tools have been added to make messaging more fun on the app? Let’s dig in:

• Message Translations: Whoop! You can now translate your messages into 99 (!!) different languages. That’s a whole lot of languages. Hold down on the DM and click “translate.”
  
  
• Scheduled Messages: If you know anything about me, you’ll know I love a good scheduled message. You can now schedule all of your texts to be sent at a later time.
  
  
• QR codes: Yes, the pesky QR code won’t ever die. You can now invite friends to your group or Channel by sharing a QR code of that chat.
  
  
• Music Sticker: For those times you want to share new songs with your friends, the Music Sticker lets you easily find songs and share them.

Now, I know I am most excited about translations and scheduling (gimme gimme gimme!), but I need to know which ones you’re most pumped about?!

• Community Notes are coming soon to Meta platforms, and they went into detail on how it’ll work.
  
  

• US users were SO happy to have ByteDance products back in their App Stores as TikTok and CapCut were the top downloaded apps last week.
  
  
• Livestream videos will only last 30 days on your Facebook feed.
  
  
• Facebook really wants you to post, and is sending you notifications on the best time to post.
  
  
• New way to advertise has dropped! Instagram ad testimonials are a new way for creators to cash in.
  
  
• But WHY?! Instagram could soon be adding a dislike button to the feed. Even more ways for people to be haters!
  
  
• TikTok is asking users to turn on Restricted Mode.
  
  
• Oh, cool. More new fonts coming to Instagram Stories and Reels!
  
  
• Okay, I loooove this! You can now add rules to mute users when you go live on TikTok!
  
  
• Honestly? This looks so ugly, ngl. Facebook wants users to create photo dumbs on Stories.
  
  
• Promote is here! YouTube added a Promote button to all YouTube Shorts for creators to quickly put ad money behind a video.
  
  
• Bluesky is dropping new features left and right. The latest feature allows you to limit your comments to followers only.
  
  
• Grok, X’s AI chatbot, is now available to users outside of the US.
  
  
• The dreaded vertical Instagram feed is now available on desktop mode.
  
  
• Apparently, President Trump is talking to China about TikTok. But will that do anything about the ban happening soon?
  
  
• RIP Amazon Inspire. The TikTok-style feed on Amazon has officially been killed.
  
  
• Woof. X’s Premium+ plan is now double the price.
  
  
• Was this not a thing before, or did I make that up? Music stickers are now inside Instagram DMs.
  
  
• Hot dang. These are some numbers! Sales grew 153% on TikTok Shop.
  
  
• New Instagram feeds are coming: “Because you follow” and “Instagram Suggested.”
  
  
• Send newsletters on LinkedIn? Lucky for you, LinkedIn has finally added analytics to the feature!
  
  
• YouTube has expanded its option for creators to leave voice notes as a comment. 
  
  
• Looks like Elon Musk isn’t too happy with some recent Community Notes.

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You know what we all need during these … strange times? A button to say you don’t like something. That’s definitely what we need!

Yes, I know that TikTok and Reddit already have an option to downvote something, but introducing it to Meta’s apps seems to be entering some murky territory. 

People are mean!! Have you seen the anonymous comments people leave just because they can get away with it? And now we’re adding in a thumbs down button to help them hate? Nah, I’m not so sure about this one.

According to the Head of Instagram, Mr. Mosseri himself, 

“This gives people a private way to signal that they don’t feel good about that particular comment. There is no dislike count, nor will anyone know if you tap the button, eventually, we may integrate this signal into comments ranking to move disliked comments lower down.”

Okay, well, if the second part happens, I might be on board. But until then, what’s really the point of disliking something no one will see or know about? Just so you personally feel good about clicking the button? 

It’s not rolled out yet, and the last time Meta tried this (because yes, they have tried a few times) it didn’t go well. Perhaps this newer idea of downgrading the comments that get the most thumbs down could help combat some nasty replies, but until that happens, I’ll remain skeptical.

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