If you opened Instagram during the past few hours, you might have noticed a flood of people asking their followers to #TurnMeOn, and while that sounds like an interesting proposal, after a couple of seconds you’ll be disappointed when you find out that they’re only encouraging you to turn on their post notifications so that you get notified every time they post something.
Earlier this month, Instagram announced that they’ll be doing what probably is the biggest change in the application yet which is changing the timeline posts order from chronological to sorting posts based on “the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content, your relationship with the person posting, and the timeliness of the post”, just like Facebook did years ago in an attempt basically to make more money by pushing brands to sponsor their posts to be able to be seen and get reach.
With that announcement, the internet turned into a social media apocalypse with people having heart attacks, meltdowns and freaking out about their content never appearing on their followers timelines ever again as they fear people’s timelines will probably be a never ending cycle of Kardashians and Fifi Abdo posts so everyone started posting claiming that to ensure that you to see their posts, you’ll have to turn on the post notifications for their profile.
Now Instagram officials haven’t said anything regarding this and they haven’t released any statement about a correlation between the algorithm that sorts the posts and the posts notifications and we highly doubt it’s true. We honestly believe that this is fake and that some guy started it as a way to get a ton of people to basically subscribe to his Instagram and after this “troll” is over, people will just be left getting tons of notifications every single time someone they “turned on” posts something.
Instagram will be rolling out the new timeline gradually and it’s not going to be some drastic change and people probably won’t miss your posts. So just a quick piece of advice; Instead of asking people to “Turn You On”, just make sure that your posts are fresh, relevant and that people will like and engage with them so that Instagram deems them worthy for people to see.
What do you think? Do you agree that this is probably just a troll or do you think that it’s true?