Instagram’s About to Make Social-Media Stalking Easier with New Search Feature
There’s a new Instagram feature making it clear that the app not only supports your little social-media-stalking habit but is doing everything possible to empower your creeping. The new feature, which is currently being tested by the photo-sharing platform, lets you search a specific person’s followers and the list of people they’re following by having the ability to simply type their name into a search bar, as opposed to scrolling (and scrolling) to see if two people were following each other.
Mashable first reported on the feature, and it appears Instagram is still only testing the update with a small group of users. (My ’Gram, for example, is still showing up with the old lists and no search function; however, some people are reporting a new search bar appearing under their accounts, like this.)
Unsurprisingly, as soon as users started noticing the search box, they took to Twitter to thank Instagram for making it that much easier to be shady.
Stalking made easy: Instagram testing new feature that allows users to search through somebody’s followers pic.twitter.com/ZiAECQ5rGf
— Joel Franco (@OfficialJoelF) March 28, 2016
shoutout to Instagram for making it easier to stalk someone by having a search in someone’s followers
— jess jess (@thunder_bunniez) March 26, 2016
Being able to search on people’s Instagram followers has made my creeping a whole lot easier 👍🏽😅
— olivia✨ (@livduffyxx) March 25, 2016
There’s a search bar in people’s followers now on Instagram . Lurking just got 100x times easier 😂
— Peruvian Papi ¥ (@KxngMvrcus95) March 28, 2016
