TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Facebook might start hiding 'Like' counts for posts
Change Size
Such a change could ease pressure to win approval with images, videos or comments and, instead, get people to simply focus on what is in posts. (Shutterstock.com/Bloomua)
F
acebook on Tuesday confirmed it is dabbling with no longer making a public display of how many "likes" are racked up by posts.
Such a change could ease pressure to win approval with images, videos or comments and, instead, get people to simply focus on what is in posts.
Facebook-owned Instagram earlier this year announced it was testing hiding like counts and video view tallies in more than a half-dozen countries, with account holders still able to see the numbers but masking amounts from others.
Read also: The pressure's off: Instagram removes the 'like' count in more countries
"We are considering hiding like counts from Facebook," a spokesman for the leading social network told AFP on Tuesday.
Twitter has also experimented with hiding numbers of times tweets were "liked" or "retweeted," according to product lead Kayvon Beykpour.
Twitter found that people engaged less with tweets when they couldn't see the counts.
"When you remove engagement indicators, people engage less," Beykpour said while briefing journalists at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco last month.
