Instagram thrives on your actions and, like any other platform these days, creates a list of topics it thinks interest you most. This builds a database that allows it to show you different ads, which is how it generates revenue. But did you know you can find out what all these topics are? If you're interested in learning how, keep reading.
What Instagram thinks you're interested in
This will not come as a surprise to anyone, but Instagram, like other platforms, generates a list of interests for each user. The objective is none other than to have more information about possible topics to which you would be attracted. And so, thanks to this and other data such as sex, age, location, etc., to be able to show ads that fit better and with which they can generate more income.
As we've said, this happens with each and every one of its users. It's true that it might be able to gather more information from some users due to settings like location sharing, but generally speaking, we all have a list of interests that Instagram creates with you in mind , considering what's most relevant to show you.
So, is this list really accurate? Well, to find out for sure, you'll have to check it out for yourself and judge for yourself. I can tell you that mine is a bit strange, although I partly expected it to be more or less like this because the searches I usually do are very different. Although it's also worth mentioning that it doesn't rely solely on this type of Instagram activity.
When you use Facebook or other websites with certain cookies you can feed this list. So you shouldn't obsess over certain topics either, but it doesn't hurt to take a look and find out why a certain ad is appearing every few days or even repeatedly when you enter the application.
How to see the topics that Instagram thinks are interesting for you
If you are curious about the topics that Instagram thinks you are interested in, we are going to show you step by step what you should do. In this way, although you have to delve a little into the most hidden settings of the application, you will be able to know to what extent they are correct or not. Even after seeing them, you understand why some type of advertisement or product appears so recurrently.
To access this list of interests, do the following:
- Open the Instagram application on your mobile device
- Tap on the icon with your profile picture to access it
- On the three lines icon at the top, tap on it to open a new dropdown
- Now go to the Settings option
- On the next screen locate and tap on Security
- There is less left, tap on Access data
- On the next screen you will see a series of accesses to different types of data, the one you are interested in is at the end of the whole in ad interests
Once you've logged in, you'll see a list that you can expand by simply clicking the " See more" button . There you'll find all the topics that the platform has compiled because it believes they'll be of interest to you.
If you prefer to access it from the browser version of Instagram, you can do that too. It's much faster this way, because you can go to Profile > Settings > Privacy and Security > Account Data > Ad Interests, or better yet, click directly on this link to Ad Interests.
The rest of Instagram data
Taking advantage of the fact that you now know how to get to this section of Accessing Instagram data, you are still interested in taking a look at the rest of the information that you can find here and that may be interesting. Because you can see from how many times you have changed the password to previous names used (if you changed), links put in the bio, etc.
It is good that all this data is accessible to be aware of everything that Instagram or any other platform can learn about us as we use it. Because it helps to understand and become aware of whether we want to continue "feeding the monster" or not.