If you love visuals then you would surely admire the mesmerizing visual experience of Instagram. Aren’t you? With refreshing user experience on the app, comes along slang and acronyms - a norm when it comes to social media. If you don’t educate yourself with these informal terminologies the time you spend on these social platforms will become more boring and less exciting.
Don’t worry, we’ll not let that happen. This blog will explore what CFS means on Instagram, what it is used for, and how you can use it to nurture your relationship with the audience.
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CFS meaning in text is Close Friends Stories. CF stands for Close Friends. CFS was rolled out in 2018 by Instagram as a move towards empowering users to control their privacy in a better manner. You don’t always want to share content with everyone in your followers' list, right? It may be too personal or sensitive to you as an individual, and you feel uncomfortable with everyone seeing it except your close friends.
So, if you go through your followers’ list and manually pick the ones you want to skip from viewing your Stories is a tedious and exhausting job. You’ll burn out yourself, right? There’s some good news for you. The Close Friends (CF) feature allows you to share personal content with only those who you trust or simply like. Close Friend Stories or CFS is an extension of this privacy feature. These are stories that you share only with the people on your Close Friends list.
The next section will explain how you can create a CFS on the app.
Now that you’ve got an understanding of what CFS is, it’s time to learn how to create one for your account.
Here’s the step-by-step process;
Here are some easy steps on how to make a CFS (Close Friends Stories) on Instagram;
Congratulations! You’ve just shared your Story with your close friends.
If you’re using Instagram to market and grow your brand or business, then CFS can be a great asset. You can use it to build and nurture your relationships with the leads and existing customers.
There are many ways you can use CFS to grow your business.
The answer is no. No Instagram users or even the people on your Close Friends list will be able to see who’s in your CF list. Only you can see your CF list and who’s included in that. Everyone else on the app doesn’t know about that.
No, you can’t go Live on Instagram CFS. But considering Instagram’s history of rolling out new and exciting features to the app, it can become to reality.
No, you can’t know how many times someone in your CF list saw your CF Story. Whenever a close friend sees your CF Story, their profile image appears above the “seen by” text at the bottom of your story. To view this, you can open your Story and see the profile images of the users who have seen your CF Stories along with the number (reflecting the total number of people who have viewed your Close Friend Stories).
Unfortunately, there’s no option available as of now to remove yourself from someone’s CFS. If you’re not interested in receiving CF Stories from a user, you can simply block them or just unfollow them. If you want to go to that extent, then you can do something less offensive. You can simply tap on the Story you want to remove and select “Mute Story”. You’ll see their Stories in your Stories feed no more.