<story><title>Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/04/instagram-to-increase-ad-load-as-meta-fights-revenue-decline/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aNoob7000</author><text>Personally, I think the future is in messenger apps.  Why login to Instagram or Facebook to see updates when you can have a family&amp;#x2F;friends group in Whatsapp&amp;#x2F;Telegram&amp;#x2F;Signal (pick your poison).</text></item><item><author>ledauphin</author><text>i check Instagram maybe a couple of times a year and it&amp;#x27;s almost exactly like watching your college friends&amp;#x27; kids age from afar. Each time you see them, the sensation of how much they&amp;#x27;ve grown is so overwhelming that you can hardly resist saying something along the lines of &amp;quot;I can&amp;#x27;t believe how big they&amp;#x27;ve gotten!&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;except with Instagram it&amp;#x27;s, &amp;quot;this is so much less usable than the last time I tried it. Why does anybody put up with it?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bastardoperator</author><text>Why login to anything at all? Why use whatsapp, telegram, or signal when every phone already does this and has been doing this for years? I have all of my friends and family in specific groups devoid of any specific apps.&lt;p&gt;To be fair people were saying the same thing 20 years ago when AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo messenger were the big thing. All messaging platforms will eventually die is my experience thus far.</text></comment>
<story><title>Instagram to increase ad load as Meta fights revenue decline</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/04/instagram-to-increase-ad-load-as-meta-fights-revenue-decline/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>aNoob7000</author><text>Personally, I think the future is in messenger apps.  Why login to Instagram or Facebook to see updates when you can have a family&amp;#x2F;friends group in Whatsapp&amp;#x2F;Telegram&amp;#x2F;Signal (pick your poison).</text></item><item><author>ledauphin</author><text>i check Instagram maybe a couple of times a year and it&amp;#x27;s almost exactly like watching your college friends&amp;#x27; kids age from afar. Each time you see them, the sensation of how much they&amp;#x27;ve grown is so overwhelming that you can hardly resist saying something along the lines of &amp;quot;I can&amp;#x27;t believe how big they&amp;#x27;ve gotten!&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;except with Instagram it&amp;#x27;s, &amp;quot;this is so much less usable than the last time I tried it. Why does anybody put up with it?&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TremendousJudge</author><text>because I want to know what my friends from college are up to? being in a messenger app group represents a much closer social relationship</text></comment>