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And it’s finally for the better.

If you’re the type of person to get irritated by spambots commenting on your photos, or worse, been victim to online harassment, you’ve probably wondered if you could filter out certain comments on your Instagram page.

 

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Well unlike Twitter’s approach of completely blocking people from using the app, Instagram is looking into allowing users to ban certain words and phrases from appearing in their comments, or to even to disable the comments section altogether!

 

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As of right now, only high traffic profiles (AKA celebs) are testing out the feature, but it’s more than likely it will become an option to us mere mortals very soon!

 

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MARY

 

 

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