http://www.newsweek.com/instagram-mute-button-how-use-new-feature-secretly-silence-your-friends-939319 > Instagram users will soon able to mute accounts without unfollowing them completely, good news for anyone who wants to secretly silence friends and family without them knowing. > The update is intended to give the application’s millions of users greater control over what posts they see while scrolling through their feeds, the firm announced in a blog post today. Instagram stressed that muted accounts will never know they are being shunned, and they can quickly be unmuted.