At this time of the year, most social media platforms generally give you feedback on how you behaved on the platform over the year. Like a mirror, it gives you a chance to reflect a bit.
Not Instagram, though. The Meta-owned social media platform will let you carry creating your own reality with your choice of filters and narration templates included.
YouTube and Spotify recently gave users a recap of their year on the platforms.
An Instagram of unreality
Using a new Reel recap template, Instagram users will be able to create a 2022 Reel with their choice of at least three photos or videos. Users can select up to fourteen content pieces from 2022 using a customisable template. It will then automatically stitch the content together with a narration template from famous people including music executive DJ Khaled, rapper Bad Bunny, and actress Priah Ferguson.
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The template is available from this week and it will stay on into early 2023.
Last year, Instagram called its recap feature Playback. It selected ten of the user’s posts from the past year based on the interaction on those posts. Users were then able to define what to post by selecting from the provided suggestions.
This is as Meta continues to focus on Reels – a similar feature to TikTok’s videos. The company says over 140 billion Reels are played across Instagram and Facebook every day.