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Instagram will allow you to reset your recommendations


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In social media apps, the recommendation algorithms are uncannily good at discovering what results are of interest. However, if your recommendations run amok, you can always reset it on Instagram.

Instagramā€™s new features are currently being released to enhance the power that users have. Teens in particular are now being offered the ability to control their content and recommended links. The biggest enhancement I see here is the option to ā€˜resetā€™ across Explore, Reels, and Feed. This makes it possible for a user to erase the existing content hence creating a new one with the recommendations getting nearer to the personal preferences successively as indicated by subsequent user behaviors. Anyone who wants to ā€˜unfollowā€™ another user can also revisit the list of accounts they are subscribed to.

This initiative extends the existing tools such as the ā€œInterestedā€ and ā€œNot Interestedā€ selection where a user can control their recommendations while they do not have to leave everything to the algorithm, by using the basic 0/1 base. Also, there is a chronological ā€œFollowing Feedā€ that such teens can choose to follow, or they can opt for creating the ā€œFavoritesā€ which collects the accounts whose updates are preferred.

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The function to reset your algorithm has been available for a while on TikTok. That platform has lots of settings to adjust the For You page, including things like offering every now and then: Do you like this? And, there is an option to adjust For You with generative AI. Ideally, weā€™d like to see more of these options on Instagram as they are pretty helpful if one spends lots of time scrolling through the app.


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