As you possibly can see in these photos, posted by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram is presently testing a brand new ‘Prime 3’ sticker choice for Tales, which might allow individuals to focus on their prime 3 favourite accounts, tracks, locations, and so forth.

Which instantly jogged my memory of this:

Sure, for these sufficiently old to recollect, that is the infamous MySpace ‘Prime 8’, which turned a degree of competition for a lot of customers in deciding on your favourite buddies to show in your prime itemizing.

The Prime 8 was a trigger for a lot angst and argument – and now, an entire new era will get to expertise the identical, once they begin posting their prime 3 buddies on IG, and angering everybody who’s not included within the showcase.

Which ought to spark engagement, which might be what Meta desires, and once more – it’s attention-grabbing to see Zuck and Co. proceed to mine present and former tendencies for brand spanking new inspiration and choices.

I imply, it’s not precisely the identical, and it’s a reasonably fundamental choice. However nonetheless, you possibly can see it resulting in disputes amongst teen customers, which could have dad and mom recalling the times of Tom and his MySpace empire.

It was the perfect of occasions, it was the worst of occasions. And slowly, little by little, by songs on profiles, Prime 3 shows – slowly, the perfect/worst components of MySpace are step by step coming again.

The whole lot outdated is new once more, even when the outdated stuff wasn’t that nice.

No phrase from IG as as to whether this can really be examined, or it’s simply an inner prototype at this stage.