A take on Instagram's Self-Policing Time Well Spent Tool

Are you spending a lot of time on Instagram?

Are you not able to keep a track of the time you have spent?

To solve your problems and give you much better insights, Instagram is launching the time
tracker tool for both Android and iOS to get a better understanding whether you are
misusing Instagram.

Even Instagram has also acknowledged this news and remarked that they are bringing quite
better changes so that all the people on the Instagram community can have better
knowledge of how they are spending their time on Instagram. And the company believes
that the time spent should be positive on the platform. So, to make people understand how
they spend their time on Instagram is also the policy of the company.

Let’s check how the usage insights feature works –

While the things discussed might be changed in the official launch of the application, but the
features we have found, we will discuss them in brief.

The new feature Usage Insights which is currently unlaunched now shows the number of
minutes and hours spent using Instagram. Also the Instagram will offer the feature of setting
the daily usage limit of application after which notification is sent to the user. Also there is a
new feature by which you can set the application to send you fewer notifications which
makes the application interruptions less. TO add usage insights, they have introduced a
hamburger button which after clicking will open the usage insights feature for you.
Instagram is not going to take any aggressive measures which interfere with you or lock you
out of the application but only provides insights to the users to help you in becoming much
more aware of how you use the application.

Instagram with the introduction of this feature will be one of the top social networking sites
to take such a step to make users much more aware and they can improve this service by
sending out reminders in every ten to fifteen minutes after the user passes the limit he had
set for daily usage.

Even other social networking websites can follow the shoes of Instagram and start self-
policing service and show users how they are spending time on the websites and when to
stop using them. Instagram had added this quite a while ago with the help of ‘You are all
caught up’ feature which arrives in your notification when you keep on scrolling to remind
you that the end of the feed has reached.

Most websites while rely on how much time the user spend their time to get advertisers to
advertise on their application but for the first time Instagram has taken a revolutionary step
to decrease the time users spend on the application and spend their time much more
valuably so that users can do things much more productively.

So to conclude the post, we have seen how Instagram is going to change our lives in new
feature by helping us spend our time in a much more better way than before.