Instagram Mute Button: How to Use the New Feature to Secretly Silence Friends
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.