Among the most popular and most used social networks today we find Instagram, which has a mobile application to make it much easier to take advantage of all its functions. The same platform helps you meet more people and stay in touch with your friends and family from anywhere in the world.
How to Discover People on Instagram? – Suggested and Specific Users
It is normal when using Instagram, that the platform gives you suggested or specific users, a person you know or such; That’s why we’ll show you what factors influence ‘Discover people’. On the other hand, in this development we want to show you how to discover people on Instagram by doing it from the application on your mobile.
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- How do you get into settings on an Instagram profile?
- Where is the ‘Discover People’ option?
- How else can you find people on Instagram?
- Suggestions in the followers profile
- Find accounts
- What factors influence the integration of the ‘Discover People’ list?
How do you get into settings on an Instagram profile?
To be able to enter the configuration of a profile on Instagram it is only possible if it is your own profile; in that case, entering your profile settings is very simple. Once you have logged in to your Instagram account go to the icon of a person or your profile picture in the bottom right corner .
This way you will see your profile on the screen, and in the upper right corner click on the 3 horizontal lines to display new options. Among those , select the gear icon to go to ‘Settings’ , where you will find what you need to adjust your account to your liking.
Where is the ‘Discover People’ option?
This ‘Discover People’ option is very useful for those who just want to create an Instagram account or for new users with few followers and followers. To access the discover new people option, you must go to your Instagram profile to be able to select the 3 horizontal lines icon in the upper right corner.
In the options that are displayed from the bottom you will find ‘Discover people’, in which you will have to select the ‘Connect contacts’ option . That way, you give Instagram permission to access all of your contacts so you can follow people you already know.
Although, this option, with the latest updates that the application had , the option to find people is from the configuration in the first option of “Follow and invite friends”.
How else can you find people on Instagram?
Within the Instagram platform you can find other people through other options that the application itself gives you, such as suggestions or the search option.
Suggestions in the followers profile
When you follow a person on Instagram from their profile, several suggestions of people you can follow from that profile you are on will automatically appear on the screen. Generally, these suggestions that appear there are people you know who are followed by the followers you already have.
Find accounts
On the other hand, the other option that we find on Instagram is the most used by users, from the magnifying glass icon that is in the bottom bar of the platform. Selecting this icon, you will see at the top a bar with the ‘Search’ option in which you can place the name of the person or the account.
What factors influence the integration of the ‘Discover People’ list?
This is a function of Instagram that is based on the algorithm of the application, which is drawn depending on the interest you have as a user in conjunction with others. For Instagram to make this list of suggestions to discover new people, certain things are taken into account that we are going to explain below.
First of all, the suggestions that Instagram shows you are often from users that you have added as contacts on other social networks, such as Facebook, for example. So, it is very easy for you to find or find you on Instagram the users you have added as friends on Facebook.
Also, the same activity that you or those accounts have on Instagram, such as the likes they give, the accounts they follow or the hashtags they use are part of this algorithm. One last case that we want to explain for the follow suggestions that Instagram gives you is of accounts that follow you but that you do not follow and are recommended.
