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Instagram is keeping up its push to be a friendlier social network. In a post Tuesday, co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom said the photo-sharing social network will let users turn off comments on any of their posts. The feature, available for only a few accounts right now, will arrive “in the coming weeks,” he said. …

Now playing: Watch this: 4 new Instagram features you may have missed 1:47 You may have noticed Instagram has been rolling out more updates than usual in the last few months. And if you’ve kept your app up-to-date, you now have a few new tools to uncover. Zoom (August 31) After waiting nearly six years for this basic feature, we …

Selena Gomez has nabbed the title of most popular celebrity on Instagram, for the second year in a row. The star accounted for eight of the top 10 most-liked celebrity photos in 2016 and has more than 103 million followers. Only Instagram itself has more. Gomez’s most-liked photo this year was a Coca-Cola ad, with 5.9 million likes. Selena Gomez …

Social Studies looks at what’s trending on social media throughout the day so you don’t have to. One of the greatest things about the emergence of drones is the unique vantage point they have for photography. While people could certainly take photos from airplanes and helicopters before, the affordability of drones has made it possible for anyone to take great …

Instagram has updated its photo-sharing app with two new features that allow users to broadcast live video and send disappearing media in a private message. The new video broadcaster looks similar to Facebook Live and Twitter’s Periscope. You’ll see a small “live” button next to friends who are currently streaming video, and you can comment with text or emojis during …

Facebook, Instagram and Messenger will all be under the umbrella of a single app soon, Facebook has announced. With businesses in mind, Facebook is integrating all three services into its Pages Manager mobile app in the coming weeks, letting you manage messages and comments on all three platforms from one page. Pages Manager is a free app designed to help …

Instagram on Thursday added the ability to call out specific people within its photo story feature. In a move to outdo the functions of competitor Snapchat, Instagram now enables users to share photos and videos they’ve stitched together and tucked inside their app’s personal stories profile. Like many social media tools, you target individual friends and followers by typing an …

An equestrian suing for worker’s compensation in Baltimore thought she had everyone fooled. The woman said in her claim she was injured and couldn’t ride horses anymore, and in the courtroom, she had a convincing act. But online, it was a different story. This was in 2002, when community boards served as social networks. There, private investigator Scott Catron found …

Now playing: Watch this: Getting started with Instagram Stories 1:30 You can now lurk the Instagram Stories of strangers even easier, thanks to a new update. Instagram Stories, a Snapchat-like feature that debuted earlier this year, will be given the spotlight on the Explore tab of the Instagram app. The Explore section displays a range of photos and videos from …

Amazon wants to take on Apple and Spotify, and the Echo speaker is its secret weapon. The online retailing giant on Wednesday launched Music Unlimited, a $10-a-month service that looks a lot like Spotify and Apple Music. The real standout feature is a $4-a-month option that only plays to your Amazon Echo speaker. It’s just another way Amazon wants to …