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When users share locations in their stories, they will show up on the location map for 24 hours.

Mosseri added that \"as always with Stories, this only shows the place you tagged to your followers -- it does not share your real-time or live location.\"

Additionally, Meta said Thursday that parents with Instagram supervision set up for their teens \"have control over their location sharing experience on the map.\"

\"You will receive a notification if your teen starts sharing their location, giving you the opportunity to have important conversations about how to safely share with friends,\" the company said. \"You can decide whether your teen has access to location sharing on the map and see who your teen is sharing their location with.\"

Friends tab in Reels

The third new Instagram feature Meta announced Thursday is the so-called \"Friends\" tab in Reels, which the company said will allow users to see \"public content your friends have interacted with, or recommendations from Blends you've started, and easily start conversations about them.\"

The new feature, which Meta said began rolling out \"earlier this year\" before launching globally, can be found at the top of the Reels tab.

\"We're also rolling out controls for what's shown in the Friends tab, including the ability to hide your own likes and comments on reels, and to mute activity bubbles from specific people you follow,\" the company said.

To edit or opt out of the Friends Reels activity feature, users can go to their \"Settings and activity\" page, scroll down to \"Activity in Friends tab\" and select the audience with whom they wish to share their Reels activity, which includes an option to share the activity with \"no one.\"

ABC News' Melanie Schmitz contributed to this report.

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