{"id":857,"date":"2019-10-04T18:43:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcavit.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2019-10-04T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:43:17","slug":"instagram-finally-launches-the-much-anticipated-restrict-mode-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcavit.com\/instagram-finally-launches-the-much-anticipated-restrict-mode-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Finally Launches The Much Anticipated \u2018Restrict Mode\u2019 Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just as WhatsApp plans to incorporate<\/a> a \u2018self-destruct\u2019 feature for secret chats, its sister company – Instagram also embeds a new component termed the \u2018Restrict Mode\u2019 to shadow ban Toxic Users. This recent development comes as a result of a 2018 research<\/a> conducted by Pew Research Center indicating that fifty-nine percent (59%) of US teens were been subject to cyberbullying, according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence the company\u2019s Head – Adam Mosseri, disclosed in a statement<\/a> earlier this year establishing that Instagram would \u201clead the fight against online bullying”. Afterward, that statement was eventually confirmed on Wednesday, in a press release<\/a> by the leading social platform. Where it was explicitly stated that;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRestrict is designed to empower you to quietly protect your account while still keeping an eye on a bully.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Head of the social media network also announced the birth of this new tool in a tweet<\/a> earlier today. Having that this new feature has been in the testing phase since July, the \u2018Restrict Mode\u2019 functionality at present provides Users with the options to restrict another User either by simply swiping left on their comment – a similar procedure used to report Users on Facebook, through their \u2018profile page\u2019 or at best from the Subscriber\u2019s settings privacy tab – which is in semblance to \u2018Blocking a Number\u2019 on WhatsApp.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsequently, a \u2018Restricted\u2019 User\u2019s comment on your posts would only be visible to them and nobody else. Additionally, notifications become deactivated whereas direct messages from banned Users enter into a pool of message requests. And in the case where these messages are approved and read, the banned Users won\u2019t be duly notified. Also such Users won’t be able to see the \u2018active status\u2019 of any User that had earlier banned them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the \u2018Restrict Mode\u2019 does not actively block the User thus the phrase \u2018Shadow Ban\u2019. However, it conveniently refrains such Users from certain access to your page or posts without subsequent permissions. The feature extensively borrows Twitter\u2019s \u2018Muted Reply\u2019 approach. And as such comments from banned Users can still be visible but not readable to the general public as it would bear a \u2018Restricted Comment\u2019 tag. Granting the Account Owners the opportunity to either approve, delete or ignore the comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though the introduction of this neoteric tool is intended to inspire teenagers to stand up against online bullying, some experts still fear that this new instrument could turn out to be detrimental instead of its purposed use. As is the argument presented by Jennifer Grygiel – A Social Media Expert and Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and Dr. Sameer Hinduja – Co-director of the Cyberbullying Research Center and a professor at Florida Atlantic University. Both of them called out to Instagram to publish the results of these \u2018anti-bullying\u2019 measures. Dr. Hinduja further postulated that;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We need to see how it plays out at scale, and whether a critical mass of Instagrammers employ the feature.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to another Social media Analyst, Randi Priluck – A Professor and Associate Dean on Social Media and Mobile Marketing at Pace University, Instagram is implementing a great tool, nonetheless, the success of this new development is dependent on a number of factors. In his words;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The fact that Instagram is doing something is better than nothing, But the question is: How much will this help?”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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