Since Facebook bought Instagram, the social network of photographs has been attracting the attention of a large number of users and today, is very close to exceeding 1.000 billion active users. This social network has been inspired by Snapchat to gradually add a large number of functions, functions that in most cases have been very well received.
The company is currently testing a new feature, a feature that will allow us to learn about how long do we use the application. At the moment, this function is only available in the beta code available for Android as Techcrunch has discovered, although the company's head of the company Kevin Systrom has acknowledged that they are testing the possibility of adding this function.
We're building tools that will help the IG community know more about the time they spend on Instagram - any time should be positive and intentional.
- Kevin S. (@kevin) May 16, 2018
According to Kevin, they are creating tools that They will help the Instagram community to know the time they spend using it, something that should be positive and deliberate. This function, which is found under the "Usage Ingishts" section, will probably be translated as Usage Statistics and would be found in our profile. According to Techcrunch, currently this new function does not show information, so we do not know what type of statistics it will offer us when this function is enabled, if it is finally carried out.
And I say that we do not know if this function will finally reach the application in future updates, because it may be counterproductive and affect the time users spend in the application or in the web service that Instagram also makes available to us. Companies want us to spend as much time as possible in their applications and services, but this function may not be the most appropriate, since many users may see a problem of addiction to the smartphone and / or social networks the time they spend not only on Instagram, but on all social networks.