Instagram is undoubtedly one of the most widely used social media platforms in the world, with an impressive user base of over one billion people. This platform primarily serves as a hub for sharing captivating images and engaging videos, and its ...

To pull in Instagram likes, the biggest rules are obvious: Be a name brand, or just have a ton of followers—and include witty accompanying text. But a group of researchers at North Carolina State University wondered what would happen if they ignored ...

Many psychologists have observed with alarm that Instagram encourages unrealistic beauty standards and distorts our impression of our peers’ lives (and of our owns). Indeed, the social media giant has a filter effect — literally and figuratively — on ...

Facebook’s own researchers have found that Instagram barrages teen girls who have anorexia and other eating disorders with photos and videos of other afflicted girls — a practice that experts say has been shown to worsen the disorders, The Post has ...