Digital Wellbeing- Instagram & Soundscapes

I'm interested in how social media influences our lives. How design affects our behaviour and attention. Recently, Instagram has requested an acess to link user's spotify account. How does Instagram's algorithnm would affect by the inclusion of user's music listening information? Currently, the app is designed to get you hooked to the application by various cues. One of the many cues I noticed-

The Deceptive Like Counts and Cues-
Every time you open the app, you get a notifciation with a micro seconds of lag.
The no. of likes shown everytime we open the app is always low compared to the no. of people liked it.
There's no linear reporting of the counts or action. If a friend likes it two days ago. After two days, we get a notification that a certain person has liked it. 

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