The steady expansion of the coronavirus pandemic has brought to the fore a nontrivial task: how to convince people to stay farther apart? One conviction and logical arguments are not enough, because without society and lively communication, the majority quickly becomes uncomfortable.
In such circumstances, we must pay tribute to the Instagram administration, which added a new function to encourage social distance (albeit forced).
The novelty is called “Co-Watching” (joint viewing) and allows you to view content in group mode, via video chat. To immediately discuss what you’ve seen, maintain conversation and save traffic without sending tons of content to each other. In addition, a new sticker “Stay at home” has appeared – the materials marked by it fall into the general group, where people share life hacks about how they spend time locked up.
Earlier, Facebook, which owns Instagram, canceled participation in several conferences, including the holding of its own F8. The company paid $ 1,000 each to its employees to solve the financial problems caused by the epidemic and donated $ 100 million to help small businesses.
Facebook also agreed to temporarily reduce the resolution of visual content in order to reduce the size of the transferred files and the overall load on the system. communication.
