You know that one thing you really hate about Instagram? No, we're not talking about how seeing people's perfect #fitspiration photos doesn't actually inspire you to work out but instead inspires you to eat another whole pizza by yourself. We're talking about that other feature that probably drives you bonkers.
Math. UGH. What the hell is math doing in our social media life?! We learned a long time ago that our grade school teachers were lying when they said we would need math for the rest of our life or that we wouldn't have a calculator with us all the time to do the work for us. Smart phones! BOOM.
Anyway, when we are doing some deep scrolling on someone's Instagram account and we see a photo that's marked as being posted "22 weeks ago," we have to count and/or divide to figure out if that was early in 2016 or maybe before that. Sure, it's simple math that doesn't take long to do but any second spent dealing with numbers is a second of pure agony. Also, we're terrible at math.
But behold! It looks like Instagram is fixing that annoying little problem. Users have recently noticed that on the app, it now lists the actual date a photo is shared to Instagram instead of just a days or weeks count.
For example, check out this photo of Taylor Swift's cat Olivia. On the web version, it just says "19 weeks ago":
But on the app, it now reads as "October 29, 2015."
You might be asking: "Why are you looking at photos of Taylor Swift's cat from October?" And to that we say:
"Why aren't you looking at photos of Taylor swift's cat from October? And bless your heart for thinking that's as far back as we scroll on her Instagram feed."
Oh. And we also say:
"MIND. YO. BUSINESS."'
This new feature will only show up on the app, but Instagram confirmed to us that while the new timestamps aren't available on the web version, you can hover over the date and the full time stamp will appear.
Now, let's bask in the glory of an Instagram stalking habit sans math. Mmmm, that's nice.
(Originally published on Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:23 p.m. PT)