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Instagram definitely wants to become your new favorite messaging app. And it is that it is implementing different characteristics of this kind of tools. The last thing has been to place a green dot next to the profile image of all those users who are active in the application. A good way to find out if they are available to talk to through Instagram Direct. Or, to find out if they are making us a vacuum and do not want to answer us voluntarily.Of course there's also a way around this whole system.
Instagram has also thought about the paths that having this signaling beacon can mean for users and their privacy. That's why they have decided to make this function optional and voluntary Of course, activating it by default for all users, both on Android and iPhone. That's why you have to follow these steps if you want to avoid drawing attention like a beacon in the middle of the night with the green dot next to your profile picture. Just do the following.
Step by Step
The first thing to do is jump to the tab of your Instagram user profile. You know, the one on the far right.
Here click on the button in the upper right corner, the one with the three dots. With this you access your account settings, which is exactly what we are looking for.
In the list of functions we go down to the section Activity status. This is the feature that shows if a user is active or not on Instagram.
There are two characteristics to take into account if we want to mark our activity or not on Instagram. On the one hand there is the Activity status, with which the last time of the active status on Instagram is indicated for the accounts that are followed and to whom a direct message has been sent. The other option is more specific, and focuses the action on the chats, where it is possible to show a notice indicating if you are active in the conversation, if you are writing or if you are using the camera to reply with a photo.
You just have to deactivate the option you prefer, the first being the characteristic green dot that now appears everywhere next to your profile image.However, as with the rest of the Facebook applications (the owner of Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.), by deactivating this option you will not see the activity status of the rest of the contacts eitherSomething that maintains the balance in the application to ensure that no one takes advantage of this function to gossip or overreach in communication.
If we deactivate both options, Instagram will remain as it was a couple of weeks ago, looking more like a social network than a messaging tool. We will avoid informing our contacts and people with whom we have written privately about our activity in the application. Questions that can save us more than one discussion if we decide to read a message and answer it later. Or even ignore it completely if necessary. Never again will our activity be reflected minute by minute on the photography social network, whatever the underlying reason.
It is clear, then, that Instagram continues to make progress to gain ground from other communication tools, even if they are its first cousins. We are talking about WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, which have also copied other Instagram functions. Now it seems that the photography social network aspires to be a communication tool Something that shouldn't call our attention too much given the overtones of flirting and chat that it has been gaining in the last years.
