Today on social media innovations nobody asked for: the ability to see your friends’ bad financial decisions. Meta announced that from today, some Instagram users will be able to share NFTs that they have created or bought.
Zuckerberg originally told the public that the company was working on bringing NFTs to Instagram in March. The threats continued in May, with Meta announcing the ability to show off your .JPGs on both Facebook and Instagram was in experimentation phase. By June, ‘digital collectables’ could be displayed by a select number of ‘creators’.
Unfortunately, today, Meta updated its blog post from May to reflect the feature was being rolled out to some more Instagram users in the U.S..
“As we continue rolling out digital collectibles on Facebook and Instagram, we’ve started giving people the ability to post digital collectibles that they own across both Facebook and Instagram,” the blog reads.
“This will enable people to connect their digital wallets once to either app in order to share their digital collectibles across both.”
Goodie.
Meta, unlike Twitter, will allow users to share NFTs they’ve created or bought on their profiles for free. The blue bird app unveiled NFT avatars in January, but only for subscribers of its paid Twitter Blue service.
In case you’re remotely interested in this NFT display feature, to use it, you’ll need to connect your Instagram or Facebook to a digital wallet. Once connected, you can then choose which NFTs from your wallet you want to share on Instagram. The NFT/s will be given a ‘shimmer effect’ and can display public information, such as a description of the NFT.
Posts will also be visible on people’s profile so you can screenshot it to essentially own what someone else has potentially paid a ridiculous amount of money for.