How to Know What Instagram Thinks You Are Interested in

Instagram feeds on your actions and, like any other platform today, creates a list of topics that it thinks are the ones that interest you the most. This way, it builds a database with which it can show you different ads that are the ones that allow them to generate income. But, you know that you can know what all these topics are. If you are interested in seeing how, keep reading.

What Instagram thinks you are interested in

This will come as no surprise to anyone, but Instagram generates, like other platforms, a list of interests for each user. The objective is none other than to have more information about possible topics by 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.

What Instagram Thinks You Are Interested in

This, as we say, it does with each and every one of its users. It is true that with some it may be able to collect more information due to the adjustments it may have such as the use of the location, but in general we all have a list of interests that Instagram creates thinking of you and what is the most appropriate to show you.

Now, is this list really accurate? Well, get out of doubt you will have to check it for yourself and assess. I can tell you that mine is a bit strange, although in part I expected it to be more or less like that because the searches I usually do are very different. Although it must also be said that it is not only nourished by this activity on Instagram.

When you use Facebook or other websites with certain cookies you can feed this list. So you shouldn’t be obsessed with certain topics either, but it doesn’t hurt to take a look at it and find out why a certain ad is appearing every few days or even repeatedly when entering the application.

How to see the topics that Instagram thinks interesting for you

If you are curious to know what are 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 comes out so recurrently.

To access this list of interests, do the following:

  1. Open the Instagram application on your mobile device
  2. Tap on the icon with your profile picture to access it
  3. On the three-line icon at the top, tap on it to open a new dropdown
  4. Now hit the Settings option
  5. On the next screen locate and tap on Security
  6. There is less left, tap on Access data
  7. On the next screen you will see a series of accesses to different types of data, the one that interests you is at the end of all in Ad Interests

When you have accessed you will see a list that you can expand just by clicking the See more button . In it you will find all those topics that the platform has been collecting because it thinks they are interesting for you.

If you want to access from the browser version of Instagram you can also. And here it is much faster, because you could go to Profile> Settings> Privacy and Security> Account data> Interests for ads or better click directly on this link to Interests for ads.

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 green from how many times you have changed the password to previous names used (if you changed), links placed in the biography, etc.

It is good that all this data is accessible to keep track of everything that Instagram or any other platform can get to know 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.