{"id":28445,"date":"2020-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/instagram-co-watching-new\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T00:00:00","slug":"instagram-co-watching-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/instagram-co-watching-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram\u2019s New Feature is Helping Us Be Alone, Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social media has always been a great means of communication. But with Coronavirus, it\u2019s safe to say it has become somewhat kinder. From virtual happy hours to collective yoga classes, the pandemic is bringing the humane side of social media out. And it feels so good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To help us navigate this new way of being \u201calone together\u201d, with us all being stuck at home, Instagram just launched \u201cCo-Watching\u201d, a new feature that allows users to browse the app and share videos and photos over Instagram\u2019s video chat feature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe will continue to prioritize safety, connecting people with accurate information, and encouraging support as the COVID-19 outbreak evolves,\u201d the company also said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On top of Co-Watching, Instagram has also announced plans to expand educational resources to prevent the virus\u2019s escalation and sticker features to promote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/quarantine-things-to-do-at-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social distancing<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coronavirus news might bring on bouts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/meditation-apps-anxiety-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anxiety<\/a> and stress, but one thing is for sure, social media has never been more reliable. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media has always been a great means of communication. But with Coronavirus, it\u2019s safe to say it has become somewhat kinder. From virtual happy hours to collective yoga classes, the pandemic is bringing the humane side of social media out. And it feels so good. To help us navigate this new way of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":28446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4190],"tags":[11266,6158,12231,11866,12232,4318,9324,11997,12143,12132,4328],"primary_tag":[6580],"ppma_author":[4226],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":4226,"user_id":16,"is_guest":0,"slug":"milleteam","display_name":"Mille Team","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3efa852a4a27023eb0b89acfd128ed1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28445"},{"taxonomy":"primary_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_tag?post=28445"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=28445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}