Facebook hides huskies, to save people from envy

As Facebook believes that users are too fixated on the statistics of each other. Because of this, they do not share important and exciting moments of their fear that it will not be popular. That's why social network I decided not to show people the number of likes on foreign stations. The counter will be removed already on September 27 - first in Australia and then, most likely, and in other countries.

Here is the same position until the innovations and following:

As you can see in the screenshot, the button "like" will remain in place. Also, it is not going anywhere counter comments and the most popular response - as well as the names of some people who liked the publication.

After the closed testing the same feature in Instagram Canadian bloggers have expressed concern that the refusal from demonstrations likes harm large accounts: the popularity of the post will now be seen only by comments. But ordinary users this will be useful even if they do not know how popular opinion published, it will be easier to draw their own conclusions, rather than follow the crowd layknuvshih.

Facebook is going through hard times, and the company really need to change something, to stay afloat. If the refusal to take root and likes will become the standard, then the social network has every chance to regain its former popularity. In the end, none of us wants to spend all his life in the pursuit of hearts on the Internet and approval strangers.