In the early days of Instagram it was still very difficult to screen off one-off content. If you wanted to prevent your colleagues from seeing a specific photo, for example, you had to block them all manually. Only when you deactivated the blockage per follower did he or she see all your photos and videos again. Very cumbersome!
That’s why Instagram came with the Best Friends option, making it a lot easier to share stories with a limited group of followers. If you have created a list of your best friends, you will be given the option to share stories only with this group of people.
That’s how you do that
How can you add your friends to a favorites list in Instagram? That is very simple:
Open the Instagram app on your Android device or iPhone and click on your profile at the bottom right of the screen. In the iOS app, tap your username at the top and then tap Add good friends. If you use the Android app from Instagram, you can press the three horizontal bars (top right of the screen) from your profile page. In the menu that appears you see Good friends stand. Click on that.
If you have not yet created a favorites list, you will see the To work-button. Tap it and you’ll see a series of suggestions from people you can add to the list. You can also look up friends. Once you have compiled your list, tap Create list.
If you now on Good friends you see the users in the list. The plus at the top right of the screen allows you to add more people.
Share stories with your best friends
Now you can share stories with your best friends. On the home screen, tap the camera at the top left, as you always would, take a photo or video, then tap Best friends to share the content with the selected group of followers.
Send best friends a message
Recently, there was also a separate app for Instagram, called Threads, with which you can keep in touch with your best friends. If one of your friends, who is on your favorite list in Instagram, sends you a message, you will receive that message in Threads instead of Instagram (provided you have downloaded the app, of course).
Threads has some interesting features that you cannot find in Instagram. This allows you to take and send photos directly from the app, similar to the way it works in Snapchat. You can also share your status, location and other real-time information.
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