What Makes Instagram's 'Recommended' Posts So Awful?

Gizmodo ----------- Social feeds are getting cluttered with posts no one asked for, and unfortunately, Instagram is following suit. No one I’ve spoken to about Instagram’s recently announced feature of “recommended” posts from complete strangers appearing in feeds is excited about the change. Admittedly, that group of people is a relatively small sample size, composed largely of other tech journalists. I don’t love it. But I can’t quite put my finger on why. On the hierarchy of nuisance posts, I’d put Instagram’s recommendations below Twitter’s “in case you missed it” notifications (oh my god, please stop) and Facebook’s incessant need to tell me when events are being attended by people I’ve met once or twice, but slightly above promoted posts from advertisers. As far as anyone knows, Instagram won’t be pushing notifications about these posts you didn’t ask for but also won’t provide an option to turn them off. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.