How to deactivate your Instagram account
If you’re growing tired of photos and videos on Instagram, you can deactivate your account. Here’s how to temporarily disable or permanently delete it.
Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger are back after ‘technical issue’
UPDATE: March 19, 2021, 3:07 p.m. EDT Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger are now back up. “Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have trouble accessing some Facebook services,”…
Facebook is working on an Instagram for kids
Instagram for kids? What could possibly go wrong?! A report from BuzzFeed says that parent company Facebook is working on a new version of Instagram for child and tween users.…
I quit Instagram with meditation, and you can too
March Mindfulness is Mashable’s series that examines the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in the time of coronavirus, March doesn’t have to be madness. At the beginning…
How to make your Instagram Stories more secure
Is your Instagram account private? If so, you’re off to a solid start. If your content is public, however, you might want to take a serious look at your Instagram…
Instagram Lite keeps all the key features in a 2MB package
Instagram is about to become less of a burden for your phone and your data plan. On Wednesday, Instagram Lite, a stripped-down, lightweight version of Instagram started rolling out in…
Instagram Live just got a bit more like Zoom with new, four-person Rooms
Instagram is introducing a new feature today that will allow users to run joint livestreams with three other people, letting you broadcast the group video chat for the world to…
I’m over lifestyle influencers
If you’ve ever watched a daily vlog, a package unboxing, or a clothing haul on YouTube, you may understand the appeal of lifestyle influencers. These manicured, subtly-filtered people — who…
Facebook saves links shared on Messenger and Instagram, and this new detail reveals it’s on purpose
Facebook is storing the links you share on Messenger and in Instagram DMs. No, not just the URL itself, but the entire contents of the page you’re linking to. In…
Facebook says it’ll ban anti-vax content, again
If at first you don’t succeed, keep telling people that you’re trying again. Facebook announced Monday that, over a year into a pandemic that has killed more than 460,000 people…