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Video: Does Instagram reveal who’s stalking your feed?

#Facebook #Instagram #socialmedia #SocialNetworking #stalking By  Ashley Carman   @ashleyrcarman     Jul 20, 2018 Instagram knows all of our secrets, particularly the people we love to stalk. Some people think the company outs our habits to other users in their story. These users believe that the people who populate at the top of your story viewers are the ones who stalk you the most. Maybe your crush is always at the top or maybe it’s your nemesis. It doesn’t matter who. We visited Instagram to speak with Julian Gutman, product lead for Instagram Home, which includes Stories and the Feed to figure out whether there’s any truth to this idea. Also while we were there, Julian and I chatted about the algorithm and the company’s switch to the algorithmic feed. Watch the video above if you want to know how people end up at the top of your viewer's list or the top of your Feed in general.

Proof That No One Really Cares About Our Social Media Posts

#SocialMedia #Twitter #SnapChat  #Instagram We sure like social media, don't we? Facebook alone has over 2 billion monthly active users, with a billion of those being daily active users. The average user spends about 35 minutes per day on Facebook. Just to give perspective, that's 350 billion minutes or about 66,000 years worth of human time spent per day...just on Facebook!   Probably most of us are using multiple social media platforms these days. Instagram, which was acquired by Facebook in 2012, has over 700 million active users, Twitter has 328 million, and Snapchat has 255 million. So, perhaps an aggregate amount of time we spend on social media these days is probably closer to 50-60 minutes per day, with many of us averaging well above that number.  A Few Caveats My "proof" that your (and my!) social media posts don't really matter is to mean that they don't matter significantly. We can all think of posts and social media connections that are m