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Recommendations are either something you love or hate on social media.
If you don't mind your account being public, it can be fun to check out
other users and see what they post. Some of them you might decide to
follow but others you won't. However, these recommendations can get a
little annoying. If you want to add someone on Facebook you don't need
them recommended to them but on Instagram, it's actually difficult to
say.
Stories is not Snapchat. Yes, you can send semi-private pictures to your friends but it was also built to be a product that can stand up on its own.
You can just spam everyone with a lot of pictures that aren't good
enough to stay on your profile or you can let your followers have a
sneaky peak what you're doing if you're in a hurry and won't post
anything complete until later. Snapchat, on the other hand, feels more like a messenger, just one that focuses on images and video
rather than text and conversation, though you can do that too. This
means that just because recommendations would weird people out on
Snapchat it doesn't mean that they won't work on Instagram. The explore tab on Instagram is used by a lot of users for extended periods of time each day.
People on Instagram want to find new images to like and people to
follow, recommending people to follow on Stories is likely going to work
in that section. There is still the aspect of privacy that means
some users might not want to use Stories like they do the rest of
Instagram but until this feature rolls out to everyone, we won't know
for certain.
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