Instagram’s new scrolling feature briefly inspires absolute fury

I’m not sure why social platforms constantly feel the urge to evolve. I miss the Facebook that gave me real news stories instead of my uncle’s views about the United States Postal Service, I long for the days of Friendster and MySpace.

Instagram is the latest platform to fall victim to the trend. The platform recently decided to test out a new way of scrolling through a feed — tapping left-to-right, instead of up-and-down.

Predictably, the people of the internet are mad.

The feature, mimics the format of Instagram stories. Both features operate horizontally. Users were forced tap to see the next post.  Read more…

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