Turning off your activity status on Instagram can give you some much-needed breathing room, ensuring that others aren't able to see if you're using the social media app at that moment, or when you ...

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Instagram, a social media platform owned by Meta, had outages early Wednesday morning. Users took their frustrations about the outages to X. Downdectector, a realtime outage monitoring program ...