Hi Yeah, let’s get right to the rundown first. We’re experiencing sticker shock on everything you know that. But airfare maybe the worst. But now we’re getting word when those ticket prices will drop. Then some of the biggest social media apps are making changes to how they look. I’m gonna break down what you’re now seeing and why it’s happening and finally find your friends and family faster with *** new feature on google maps. We’re going to walk you through it first. The price to fly anywhere has surged these last few months and increased travel demand higher jet fuel and staffing shortages all to blame. But now travel experts say all three of those things check, check, check, starting to get better and that means good news for us. Airfares have already fallen 1.8% from May to june according to the latest inflation data, we usually see them go down even more in the fall but forecasters at cheap air dot com say prices will start dropping as early as next month. I want to show you this calendar real quick. This is cool. So the orange colors here means higher Airfare green green means go baby better discounts. They’re seeing flights for under $300 on average for every Tuesday and Wednesday in august but it’s not just during the week. They’re actually seeing better pricing on most of the weekends in august two. So if you’re looking for *** last minute vacation, you should be seeing some relief on tickets. Next let’s talk about the changes happening to our favorite social apps. Things might look different as you scroll through instagram and facebook both owned by the same company. Meta instagram is facing backlash because it’s now showing you more recommended content from accounts you don’t actually follow versus post from your friends. And now meta is doubling down and changing facebook to the home page will have more new content that suggested for you from people and pages you don’t actually follow and now it’s launching *** feeds tab right over here at the bottom. That’s where you’re gonna find posts from your friends and groups that you ran, the stuff you’re used to. So why is this happening? Tech experts say facebook and instagram want to keep up with this guy. Tiktok turns out most of us are spending more time on Tiktok than facebook and instagram. So meta wants to kind of follow suit, show you more content from people you don’t know using an algorithm to show you stuff you may like to keep you scrolling. Finally, google is rolling out *** new maps feature on the app, its location sharing notifications that will alert you when someone has left or arrived at *** specific place. So let’s say you’re going to *** concert with *** group of friends, right? You all choose to share your locations with each other. Then you’re going to receive alerts every time they arrive or leave the concert venue that way you can meet up quicker or see when they leave in case you get split up. So how do you set it? Let me show you. You go to the maps app right over here. You click on your picture in the upper right hand corner, then click over here to location sharing and tap share location. You can pick who you want to share it with and for how long underneath their little profile will be this notifications bar and you can tap add to set the place you want to set alerts for. I’m gonna set this on my kids phones to oh you know when school starts, I want to know where they are, that’s all for today. Back to you.
Video above: “Rossen Reports: Instagram changing your feed”Instagram on Thursday said it will walk back some of its recent feature changes after facing mounting backlash from users, including members of the Kardashian family.In recent days, Instagram has come under fire from users who are frustrated that the photo-sharing app is becoming too much like rival TikTok. Some users have complained that Instagram is now showing a much greater proportion of recommended content from accounts that they don’t follow versus posts from their friends. Instagram has also been testing full-screen posts, similar to how posts appear on TikTok.”Based on our findings and community feedback, we’re pausing the full-screen test on Instagram so we can explore other options, and we’re temporarily decreasing the number of recommendations you see in your feed so we can improve the quality of your experience,” a spokesperson for Meta, Instagram’s parent company, said in a statement Thursday.”We recognize that changes to the app can be an adjustment, and while we believe that Instagram needs to evolve as the world changes, we want to take the time to make sure we get this right,” the statement added.Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri first announced the pullback earlier Thursday in an interview with tech news outlet Platformer.”I’m glad we took a risk — if we’re not failing every once in a while, we’re not thinking big enough or bold enough,” Mosseri told the outlet. “But we definitely need to take a big step back and regroup. we’ve learned a lot, then we come back with some sort of new idea or iteration. So we’re going to work through that.”Video above: Health experts say social media can have negative effects on self-imageReality TV moguls Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, two of the most popular users on the platform, were among the people who publicly criticized the TikTok-ification of Instagram. They each re-shared a viral post calling to “Make Instagram Instagram again.” Jenner, in particular, has previously had a strong influence over the social media sector; after she blasted a Snapchat redesign in 2018, its stock dropped.Like other social platforms, Instagram has increasingly attempted to copy features from TikTok in an effort to compete with its fast-growing rival. In Instagram’s case, however, that has meant shifting from being photo-focused to embracing videos. In 2020, Instagram launched Reels, a short-form video feature similar to TikTok.”We’re going to continue to support photos, they’re part of our heritage,” Mosseri said in a video shared on Instagram Tuesday, in which he defended the various updates to the platform. “That said, I need to be honest: I do believe that more and more of Instagram is going to become video over time.” He acknowledged, however, that the full-screen video feature test is “not yet good” and that it was only rolled out to a small percentage of users.
Video above: “Rossen Reports: Instagram changing your feed”
Instagram on Thursday said it will walk back some of its recent feature changes after facing mounting backlash from users, including members of the Kardashian family.
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In recent days, Instagram has come under fire from users who are frustrated that the photo-sharing app is becoming too much like rival TikTok. Some users have complained that Instagram is now showing a much greater proportion of recommended content from accounts that they don’t follow versus posts from their friends. Instagram has also been testing full-screen posts, similar to how posts appear on TikTok.
“Based on our findings and community feedback, we’re pausing the full-screen test on Instagram so we can explore other options, and we’re temporarily decreasing the number of recommendations you see in your feed so we can improve the quality of your experience,” a spokesperson for Meta, Instagram’s parent company, said in a statement Thursday.
“We recognize that changes to the app can be an adjustment, and while we believe that Instagram needs to evolve as the world changes, we want to take the time to make sure we get this right,” the statement added.
Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri first announced the pullback earlier Thursday in an interview with tech news outlet Platformer.
“I’m glad we took a risk — if we’re not failing every once in a while, we’re not thinking big enough or bold enough,” Mosseri told the outlet. “But we definitely need to take a big step back and regroup. [When] we’ve learned a lot, then we come back with some sort of new idea or iteration. So we’re going to work through that.”
Video above: Health experts say social media can have negative effects on self-image
Reality TV moguls Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, two of the most popular users on the platform, were among the people who publicly criticized the TikTok-ification of Instagram. They each re-shared a viral post calling to “Make Instagram Instagram again.” Jenner, in particular, has previously had a strong influence over the social media sector; after she blasted a Snapchat redesign in 2018, its stock dropped.
Like other social platforms, Instagram has increasingly attempted to copy features from TikTok in an effort to compete with its fast-growing rival. In Instagram’s case, however, that has meant shifting from being photo-focused to embracing videos. In 2020, Instagram launched Reels, a short-form video feature similar to TikTok.
“We’re going to continue to support photos, they’re part of our heritage,” Mosseri said in a video shared on Instagram Tuesday, in which he defended the various updates to the platform. “That said, I need to be honest: I do believe that more and more of Instagram is going to become video over time.” He acknowledged, however, that the full-screen video feature test is “not yet good” and that it was only rolled out to a small percentage of users.
