Instagram wasn’t designed to make you feel bad.

It also wasn’t designed to show you how great other people’s lives are compared to yours.

Instagram is a social web connection that helps you stay in touch with people you like and admire.

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There are ways to customize your Instagram experience to only see what you want to see.

You might find something worth learning, or you could get wrapped up in a good digital book.

All you have to do is:

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Go to yourInstagram profile.

Click onHashtags, Creators, and Businesses.

Choose the hashtag you no longer care about andclickon it.

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You’ll be taken to its page where you canselect the three dotsin the top right-hand corner.

Choose what you want to do with the hashtag.

Instagram is full of ads and some of them are relevant to you, whereas others are not.

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Instagram advertising is determined by an algorithm that is designed to recommend things you “might like”.

If you don’t like it, hide it from your news feed.

Hiding an ad might even save you the headache of seeing something over and over again.

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Instagram following settings home screen

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Instagram ads screenshot

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Instagram ad settings home screen

Instagram ad settings home screen

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Instagram setting home screen sensitive content control

Instagram setting home screen sensitive content control