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Instagram is allowing new features to help people manage what they see and how much time they spend on the app. Instagram is adding the option to mute people from appearing in your feed. With an update rolling out “over the coming weeks,” you’ll be able to choose to remove someone’s posts, or both their posts and their stories, from appearing on Instagram’s main screen.

You’ll still be able to view a muted person’s profile; you can unmute them any time you want; and the person won’t be told that they’ve been muted.



While you can always unfollow someone, that often isn’t a realistic option — you can’t unfollow a close relative just because they post 12 times a day, for instance, even if they really deserve it.

 

Social media networks are often slow to add mute features, presumably because they’d rather have as much content to display to you as possible.

 

But as networks get older and older, and people add more and more friends on them, their feeds start to get clogged up.

 

Adding a mute button is far more respectful of our actual relationships, so it’s about time that Instagram added one.

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