Sneaky social media stalkers: it's bad news for all those screenshots you've got saved on your photo stream, because from this moment onwards? Instagram users will be able to know when you print screen their photos, and you'll be able to know when they do it to you.
Well, for DMs, anyway.
Thanks to the social platform's latest update, you can now send and receive photos and videos with a time stamp on them (just like Snapchat), meaning they disappear from Direct Messages after a certain number of seconds.
Unless, of course, the person you're sending it to decides to screen shot the DM and save it to their camera roll - in which case, the sender receives a notification saying the person has screenshotted their photo and now has it in hard copy. Again, much like Snapchat.
Users will also be told when their messages have been 'delivered' and 'seen', and when photos have been 'opened', to make being ghosted all the more apparent. JOYS.
While this is certainly not as scary for social media stalkers as if someone got notifications when you screenshot their actual Instagram posts, it's certainly a step in that direction.
Could we start getting notifications if someone screenshots our grid? Our photos? Our Instagram stories? We're scared to even think about it.
