If you haven’t heard the news yet, Instagram is planning on rolling out with yet another change. We finally started getting over the new algorithm and annoying questions in Instagram stories, but now we’re struggling to cope with the fact that Instagram might soon remove the like count on our posts. Now before you freak out (Influencers, I’m mainly talking about you here) let us all take a moment to remember that Instagram was once a platform to share visual updates with your family and friends, a visual diary of sorts. Now it has evolved into a popularity contest where your attractiveness and fame are measured by the often-fake number of likes below our pictures.
In order to help ease the pain of what this potential change may bring, we’re listing several things that we believe will make you happier than Instagram likes.
- Your baby’s first steps
- The smell of coffee in the morning
- The sound of crashing waves
- Satisfying your chocolate cravings
- True friendships
- Romance and everything that follows
- Landing your dream job
- Iced lattes
- Traveling
- The feeling you get after an intense workout
- Pay day
- Pizza
- Getting a text back from a crush
- Sunsets
- Curling up on a rainy day with a good book and a hot cup of tea
- Crossing the finish line
- Finally going to sleep after pulling an all-nighter
- Catching up with an old friend
- Moving on to the next level of your favorite video game
- Taking a dip in a cold pool on a hot summer day
- Waking up before your alarm to find you still have time to sleep
- Random acts of kindness
- Friday afternoon at 5.59pm
