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The Philip DeFranco Show

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🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0	Sup you beautiful bastards.
0:01.2	Hope you have a fantastic Wednesday.
0:02.8	Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show
0:04.8	and let's just jump into it.
0:06.1	Actually, quick note, for all you beautiful bastards
0:08.2	that are constantly like, man, I love it
0:09.6	when you do the really long videos,
0:11.3	you do not hit the like button on this video. I will throat punch you. Not really. But do not the stress and tears coming from editor James B for nothing. And so with that said, let's just jump into it.
0:20.0	And the first thing we're to talk about today in interesting social media news is we had
0:23.0	Instagram announcing a test. And that test will specifically hide the like count from photos and
0:26.8	videos on Instagram in an effort to get people to focus on content rather than the number of likes.
0:30.7	As far as who is going to be a part of this test, it's going to
0:33.1	begin this week and will only be rolled out in Canada. It's really
0:35.8	interesting because obviously the like feature is a core element of the
0:38.6	platform, but you've also had people arguing that it's actually had a
0:40.8	negative impact on both the quality of the content and users mental health.
0:44.0	The head of Instagram Adam Macarey saying,
0:45.6	we want people to worry a little bit less about how many likes they're getting on Instagram
0:48.8	and spend a bit more time connecting with the people they care about.
0:51.3	The thing is, this new move, this new test,
0:53.0	is not completely out of character for Instagram.
0:55.0	If you don't recall, back in November of last year,
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