The tech site TechCrunch has discovered that Facebook is considering removing the count of likes – the “likes” – from user posts, as it is already doing experimentally on Instagram, a social network controlled by Facebook. Jane Manchun Wong, a Hong Kong engineer who specializes in identifying new features of this kind before they go public, originally discovered the Facebook experiment, which then confirmed it to TechCrunch: it is not yet operational for any users, however. , and no further details were provided. As for Instagram, where the “likes” for some users began to be hidden in July, the reasons behind Facebook's decision are related to the so-called “social network envy”, the social anxiety that depends on the comparison with popularity others on the internet.
