BIG Changes Coming To Instagram And Facebook This Year

Social media is constantly changing and it can sometimes feel like an impossible task trying to keep up. But that’s why this channel exists! And so by the end of this episode, you’ll know all about the big changes coming to Facebook and Instagram right now and what it means for your church online.

 

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What's In This Session?

Facebook Developers Conference held at the end of April/early May (0:28) An experiment was run to Get rid of like counts on Instagram (2:37) Instagram announced at its F8 developer conference today that it’ll start testing a new feature later this week that’ll hide users’ public like counts on videos and photos. (2:55) Likes are a currency on social; devalue the currency - upend the culture (3:22) Problem #1: Do it for the gram - Iceland/Scotland trip research - the performative nature of IG (3:59) Problem #2: Like for like (6:48) New Facebook app design Is called FB5 - it’s cleaner, faster, and isn’t blue anymore (13:23) For the longest time, I’ve said ”The only reason I use Facebook is because of groups” - both as a consumer AND a publisher (14:08) Good #1: Less emphasis on news stories generating outrage (16:05) Good #2: Focus on communities (16:48) Why is this important? Americans are very unhappy "Happiness and life satisfaction among United Stated adolescents which increases between 1991 and 2011, suddenly declined after 2012" (19:05) Correlation does not equal causation (19:25) The responsibility falls on the social platforms, the parents/leaders, and the church (22:05)

 

Show Notes & Resources Mentioned:

Instagram Will Test Hiding Public Like Counts World Happiness Report Pro Church Tools Pro Church Tools on Facebook Pro Church Tools on YouTube Brady Shearer on Instagram Brady Shearer on Twitter Alex Mills on Instagram