Platforms built to connect people, for better or for worse, are now for doing the opposite.

Learn about the recent Instagram outage affecting over 2800 users and what it means for the platform's reliability.

Do you care about your follower-to-following ratio? Well, get ready to care about how many "friends" you have.

Instagram has rolled out Your Algorithm, a new feature that lets users control the kind of content they see on Reels by adding or removing topics, giving people more say over what shows up in their feed.

More than half of all ads on Meta's Instagram ran in the service's short-form video Reels product in 2025, up from 35% in 2024, according to Sensor Tower.

Want to hide someone's activity on Instagram without blocking them? Now you can. National attention on mental health has put pressure on social media giants like Instagram to address safety and security on their platforms. What is Instagram doing in response?

You can see what Instagram thinks you're interested in by going into the app's deeper settings options. The list of interests is, of course, related to ads and ad data. Instagram says your ad interests are based on a combination of who you follow, what ...

Have you ever scrolled through your phone, looking at a picture of a perfectly sun-drenched living room with a strategically draped throw blanket, and then looked up at your own living room, which currently features a half-eaten bag of chips and a dog sleeping on the “good” pillows?