Author: Shivam

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Should you use Two-Factor Authentication on Instagram?

Your Account Has Been Hacked!

It’s one of the worst nightmares that many of the users face at least once in their lifetime throughout their online experiences, and who knows?

“You could be next!”

Instagram has been investing ‘billions of dollar’ on user security every single year to check the amount of fraud and illicit activities happening on the platform. Therefore, in 2018 the gram team launched a security feature named as “Two Factor Authentication” or “2FA” to comply with their promises. Two Factor Authentication added a cushion between user’s account and malicious hackers that made it difficult for them to bypass the code. Although 2FA isn’t a security cure-all, it at least made Instagram hacking much harder than it was before. … →

 
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Instagram Adds Gender Options for Pride Month Campaign #UntoldPride.

The Instagram team, like a few recent years, introduced a kit of all-new innovative tools for Instagram stories and feeds such as pride sticker labels, rainbow brush, etc. to celebrate the pride month this year.

All throughout the pride month, one can make any kind of photo or video into a visual celebration and display their uniformity by using pride stickers in their stories or in the photos and videos that you want to send to friends.

Pride stickers are created by LGBTQ artists from Instagram’s worldwide community, so whenever you see a pride sticker in anyone’s story, tap it so as to figure out who designed it. From there, you can also tap to uncover additional content coming from pride around the globe.

Even though this feature was introduced by Instagram in 2017, the rainbow brush enables one to bring additional color to your stories.

In 2019, everyone is commemorating the vibrant LGBTQ+ community that dials Instagram home using #UntoldPride to celebrate the history, empower queer expressions, and cultivate safety all over. … →

 
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How to Use Instagram Close Friends List Feature in 2019

Instagram has been growing exponentially day in and out.

And with such a rapid increase in the number of accounts in the Instagram community, it was a must thing to add an extra layer of security and bring new features to ensure user’s privacy.

Let’s admit it, not everyone wants to share your personal moment with all your followers.

This lead to the evolution of a trend called “Finstagrams“, where users created a new Instagram account to share select content with a small group of people consisting of their closed ones. It ensured the privacy of user content that was not seen by all their followers on their original account.

But managing multiple accounts is not everyone’s thing, justifying the trend was not for everyone. Hence, it called for a new feature that could power Instagram users to do so.

Referred to as “Close List”, finally Instagram rolled out this new feature globally that added flexibility to share your stories with exclusive viewing permissions.

This segmented list cut down the work of blacklisting people from your stories and share your stories with a select few. … →

 
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3 Instagram Hacks and Tricks You Should Start Using Today

Everyone loves hacks!

I want hacks, so do you.

Who doesn’t???

It is 2019, and our mind is consistently in the vicinity of pressure and workload.

With technology surrounding almost every aspect of our life, I should not be wrong if I say ‘hacks and tricks’ are synonymous to ‘boon’ in today’s technical world.

This aired thought in my mind to write about Instagram hacks and tips that you might not be knowing and should start using today.

Although, there are hundreds of Instagram tips and tricks that I could list down, let’s keep it short and simple for today and learn three Instagram hacks and tips you might not want to miss use of.

So without further ado, let’s get down to the business and learn new hacks:

Hack 1- Story Background Color as You Want

Newbies (sometimes even experienced users) on Instagram often use just a black background for their stories that they create by clicking in dark or clicking pictures of anything by covering the Instagram camera.

People often underestimate the power of stories for growing your brand. But like I said in my earlier posts too that stories, if used properly, can exponentially scale up your Instagram engagement rates that ultimately result in more conversion of sales. … →

 
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How to See Someone’s Instagram Pictures without Accidentally Liking Them?

Yesterday, while I was scrolling through the feeds, in what felt like to check Shayna’s profile.

Shayna was a very good friend of mine during my college days, but it has been more than 4 years now since we even said hello to each other.

I typed in her username and surfed through some of her posts.

Although I was casually seeing her profile, out of the blue(I don’t how) my thumb touched the screen, and? … →