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Share Your Live Location, Get Creative with 300+ New Stickers and  Personalized Nicknames in Instagram Direct Messages

Instagram has made direct messaging (DM) much more interactive with interesting updates aiming to enhance how users connect with their followers. The most thought-of among the updates is live location sharing. Users are now allowed to share their real-time location for up to one hour within a chat.

This feature is a great one for coordinating meetings and finding friends at concerts or festivals. The live location is only visible to the people in the chat, and it auto-expires after an hour, so the user can also stop sharing location anytime.

The company is now adding fun nicknames for personalized Instagram DMs

With the feature of location sharing and the ability to give nicknames in Instagram DMs, users can personalize their conversations. Whether it is a playful nickname or just shortening a long username for brevity's sake, it adds a fun twist to chats.

Nicknames are only seen in your DMs, so they don't alter a user's real Instagram profile name, and users have the greatest amount of control over their nicknames. Users can choose who can change them in the context of the chat, giving them flexibility and making their messaging experience feel much more personalized.

Instagram Adds 17 New Sticker Packs for Fun Chats!

In addition, Instagram releases 17 new sticker packs bearing over 300 unique stickers. These feature many different emotions, reactions, and situations to give the chats a much more personal flavor. Users can also mark their favorite stickers for later use in their conversations. This makes the chats much more vibrant and exciting.

These updates follow on the heels of recent efforts by Instagram to improve the DM experience, such as better message sorting and more control over message requests. It is part of a broader strategy to make Instagram DMs an even more expressive and user-friendly space, where users can connect with friends and family in new ways.