Here's some information you need to spread far
and wide with immediate effect: Instagram users can now see when their followers screenshot their disappearing photos.
I repeat: THEY CAN NOW SEE WHEN YOU SCREENSHOT THEIR DISAPPEARING PHOTOS.
Don't mind me, just having a mini meltdown
here.
Earlier this week, Instagram announced that it was going all Facebook on us by
allowing users to live stream from the app, and that it was going all Snapchat
on us by allowing users to send private disappearing photos. To be fair,
they're all just amalgamating into one now.
But what has also been discovered is that,
along with these new features comes a screenshot notification function, just
like Snapchat's. So now, when somebody DMs you a private disappearing photo and
you screenshot it to show all your friends, the sender will now very much be
able to see you've taken a picture of their picture.
Thankfully, this feature only applies to the
private disappearing photos function, and doesn't appear to send notifications
when users screenshot Instagram stories or normal Instagram pictures. PHEW.
As you can see in this picture released by
Instagram to illustrate its new disappearing photos feature, along the top bar
underneath one of the icons representing a user's sent photograph, it says the
word 'screenshot'. That's how it'll display if anyone screenshots one of your
privately sent disappearing photos.
As you can imagine, this new development has
been met by a lot of fear, stress, and uncertainty from users who'd believed
their screenshotting habits would remain private.
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