Soon you will know how much time you spend on Instagram per day
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That we spend all day looking at what's going on on our social networks is a patent and perfectly verifiable fact. But now it will be even more so. Because Instagram has come up with the idea of creating a special tool that will measure the time you spend looking at stories, photos and applying filters As you read it.
The feature has not been officially released yet, but it promises to be available in the very near future. This would be a feature quite similar to the time management controls that Google unveiled last week at its developer conference.
This function has been detected in a hidden code of the Instagram app for Android. It would have been dubbed 'Usage Statistics' and would directly show users how much time they spent on the app.
Exact details of what will be shown are still unknown, because in fact, some information could be absolutely devastating for those most hooked on InstagramThus, we don't know if a cumulative time figure will be given, like "You've spent two years, three months, two days and five hours of your life on Instagram" or if cumulative data will be provided, with intervals of one day, week or month.
Although if many were told in figures the time they spend all day connected to Instagram, it is very likely that they would throw their hands up. And is not for less.
Why do you want to know how much you connect to Instagram?
Well, those who are really hooked can spend hours staring at the screen. It all depends on the activity you carry out on your account, on the number of followers you have and how obligated you feel to post, edit, give the little heart a likeor comment.
In any case, disclosing habits so that users are aware of the time they waste browsing Instagram could, in principle, be detrimental to Instagram. However, experts believe that making users aware of how to adopt he althier habits when accessing social networks can help people feel better. Or rather, to not feel so guilty about wasting so much time on Instagram.
On the other hand, it seems that this feature could also help families to keep a more thorough control over the use that their children make of Instagram.
A tool that will be available on Android
As we said, this same feature – or a similar one – is available on Android. The users of the new version of this operating system will have the possibility to know how much time they have invested in the different applications Likewise, they will also be able to establish time limits on the use they make of each of them. This can be useful for anyone who needs to set limits for themselves. Or for parents who want to control the time their offspring spend on games or social networks.
It is expected, on the other hand, that Apple will also present a similar feature this year, at the annual developer conference (WWDC) . In this way, iOS users would also have the possibility to manage and control the time they spend using their favorite applications.
At the moment, Instagram has not wanted to comment on the discovery. So for now, we will have no choice but to wait to see if this feature is definitively applied.
