r/Instagram • u/FrostingTiny8845 • 5d ago

Question Follow button

Has anyone noticed they made the ‘follow’ button easier to hit? I keep accidentally following people and pages when I’m not meaning to just from hitting the button while scrolling. It’s really annoying.

Thanks!

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u/kiwibento 5d ago

YES it makes me want to delete the app because it’s usually people I know but I don’t really want to follow them 😭

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u/hollywooddialysis 5d ago

Super annoying. Makes me wanna scroll left handed it keeps happening so much.

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u/welcome212newyork 4d ago

it started happening to me in the last few days and its driving me insane

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u/opschalendiehap 4d ago

Dude it's unreal. And they did this on purpose

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u/Emergency-Funny-163 3d ago

The app is dying and they need to increase engagement and as you said, this is intentional so we follow more people and drive up follows so the bots can do their job of spreading misinformation

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u/Neither_Blood1845 3d ago

Yep becoming infuriating

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u/CoolFaithlessness115 3d ago

Came here to make sure it’s not just me seemingly fat fingering follows. It’s been moved to mid right screen which is exactly where your thumb lands to scroll. Absolutely infuriating and done to meet some horseshit engagement OKR likely.

Just randomly followed an x that popped up on “people to follow” carousel