While there’s not much you can do about data breaches that happen from the services you use, since it’s up to each company to fix these security holes, there are steps you can take to protect your phone from sharing private information with apps.

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Here are 4 ways you can protect yourself from getting hacked, targeted for ads, and exposing your personal data for companies to collect.

Be Vigilant With Your Apps
One of the best ways to protect your data is to audit your apps, which can help you learn which apps are connected to your social media sites. Checking your privacy settings for Facebook, Google, and Twitter can help you see which apps are linked to those accounts.

On Facebook, go to the top-right corner, hit the down arrow, click Settings and check the Apps tab. Here you can choose which apps retain access of your personal information. In Google, go to Settings and hit “Connected apps & sites,” and on Twitter, you go to “Settings and privacy” and hit the Apps page. At that point, you can minimize which apps are linked to each social account.

Delete Old Apps
If there are some old games and apps you’re no longer using that are still hanging around, make sure to delete them. By getting rid of them, these apps will not be able to collect any additional personal information about you, along with all the data stored within them.

Change Your Password Every 6 Months
Another good rule of thumb is to change your password every 6 months to keep passwords fresh and prevent hacking attacks targeted at you. If someone manages to get their hands on your hashed password, they’ll be able to use decryption methods to attain the full password. You could change your passwords more often than every 6 months, but make that the minimum amount of time to update your passwords.

Read Privacy Policies
Some apps may have lengthy privacy policies, but these are worth reading because they give you a solid idea how much data each app shares or guards. If you need to connect your personal data to the app, make sure the app comes from a reliable source and you know exactly how much information it’s gathering.

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A good way to maintain your privacy is by using dfndr security, which has a social guardian feature that lets you create an additional password to keep snoops at bay. Best of all, you get to choose which apps to protect.

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Here are some reasons why you might want to consider specific protection for social media apps:

• Parents and ex-girlfriends/boyfriends: Social media apps such as Facebook share all of your personal and biographical information with anyone who sees your account, especially if you don’t enforce the right privacy protocols. Not everyone needs to see your pics and status updates, especially your parents, colleagues, exes, current partners, or acquaintances. It’s worth considering activating additional security to your account. The good thing about these apps is that you can choose how much of your profile each person gets to see. You can change your security settings by hitting the down arrow on the top-right corner and choosing Settings. You can then choose Privacy and you’ll be given a slew of options regarding the visibility of your timeline,  your public profile, and messaging options.
• Check your privacy settings: If you don’t implement your preferred privacy settings on social media, the default settings may expose you to outsiders. Before you post anything on social media, explore each app’s privacy settings in order to choose who views your status or timeline and who doesn’t — the same is true for your profile and your personal information. You can even protect your birth date, location, or other biographical information on your account.
• Social media security tips: Pick a strong password with numbers, capitalized letters and symbols for maximum security. It’s also important to use different passwords for different accounts that are not easily guessed. Plus, you should avoid accessing social media apps in public, but if you do, log out before you leave. Be wary of any links sent to you, even if they are from friends as these could be phishing scams or malware, and your friends’ accounts could have been hacked.
• Protect yourself from hackers: In addition to ensuring your privacy and choosing a strong password, change your password regularly to keep hackers guessing. You may also get a message that’s not grammatically correct from a friend, which may mean that it’s coming from a hacker or a bot. Social media apps also have help centers, so if you believe you’ve been hacked or your personal information has been compromised, don’t hesitate to contact support.

Taking the above steps to stay on top of social media security can allow you to enjoy them so much more. 

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Even though I had fun times, there were definitely things I would have liked to know before pitching my tent and digging into what the festival has to offer. To help all you newbies out there, here is my ultimate survival guide to making sure you have a Coachella to remember:  

#1 – Bring a hydration backpack! It’s hot in the desert and this will save time on trips to water refill stations and save money from needing to buy water bottles all weekend. Plus, you won’t add negative points to your ecological footprint.

#2 – Pack an EZ-UP for shade on your campsite. The sun is always shining at Coachella and nothing is worse than having your tent turn into an oven from baking in sunlight all day. Or if you’re staying at an Airbnb with a pool, make sure to bring your flamingo, unicorn, or pegasus floaties!

#3 – Take a portable phone charger. Everyone uses their phone at Coachella for videos, photos, and connecting with friends. The public charging stations are super packed and will take time away from you being able to enjoy the event. A portable charger can solve this problem, but in circumstances when your phone is not charging and you need the battery to last, use dfndr battery to combat battery drain. That way you won’t miss a single moment.

#4 – Cover your face. A bandana or facemask is crucial to have for the dust in the air. You don’t want that dust in your lungs. Sunscreen is also important when you’re in the sun for 10 hours or more a day. And don’t forget extra sun coverage like a hat and sunglasses.

#5 – Spring for an air mattress if you’re camping. The campsites are all grass, but the ground is not that comfortable to sleep on all night long (dependent on when you do get to bed). 

#6 – Beat the crowds before hunger pains hit. Getting food earlier in the day is much better than later. Lines for food can get really long as the night goes on, not to mention popular menu items often sell out each day.  

#7 – Head to Do LaB. If you’re looking for a place to cool off while still enjoying some music, Do LaB is the place to be. Dance up a storm as water guns spray into the crowd to keep you refreshed. Like a sprinkler on a sweltering, summer day!

#8 – Make a plan. Check out the daily lineup ahead of time and talk to your group about which stage you’ll head to and at what time. Then forget about the plan and just live in the moment!

#9 – Capture the antics. After 2 full days of taking photos and videos of your favorites acts, it’s very likely that you might run out of storage on your phone. Use dfndr performance to clean duplicate photos and other junk files so you have more room for epic festival memories.

#10 – Hide the evidence. What happens at Coachella stays at Coachella! Feel free to virtually “lock” your #NSFW photos with a private gallery app, such as dfndr vault. Go ahead, we won’t judge.

Now that you know all the essentials for the most colossal Coachella experience, you should be ready to have the time of your life. The event runs over 2 weekends, April 13-15 and April 20-22. This year is gonna be the best one yet!

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In 2015, Snapchat updated their Terms and Conditions to assert a “worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, use, display, reproduce, modify…and publicly display” all content sent through or uploaded to the app. In short, users relinquished all control of the messages and photos send over Snapchat to the company itself. As the nearly identical Stories features from Instagram and Facebook gain prominence, a look into these competitors’ data policies shows similar privacy dangers. Under the privacy policies of both companies, the photos and videos posted on users’ stories are collected, stored, and potentially used.

Instagram stories

After being acquired by Facebook, Instagram launched its “Stories” feature in August 2016 to accusations of copying. The new tool appeared to be a direct replica of Snapchat’s Story feature. They both shared a time limit, location tags, filters, and other elements. The company also borrowed another tactic from Snapchat: the practice of saving all photos and videos from user’s Stories to the company’s servers. While users can control who will see their story, with the option to set their account to private or hide stories from select followers, they have no control over whether Instagram stores their photos and what the app does with them.

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Facebook Stories

After rolling out stories on the recently acquired Instagram platform, Facebook announced the roll out of its own Snapchat Stories spinoff. This new service, as with Instagram Stories, includes filters, effects, and a time limit. While it is not clear whether Facebook stores all photos and videos on its servers as Instagram and Snapchat do, a quick look at the company’s Data Policy makes it clear that the company is collecting some of this information. Under the policy, Facebook is allowed to collect “things you do and information you provide.” Using the information, the platform is able to “communicate with you,” “provide, improve, and develop services,” and “show and measure ads and services.”

Safety Tips

With these privacy concerns in mind, social media safety becomes more important than ever. Users should keep in mind the community guidelines of each platform. These guidelines typically prohibit material that is intentionally offensive, insulting, or threatening, violates the privacy of another user, displays individuals engaged in dangerous or illegal activity, or potentially threatens anyone’s immediate safety. In short, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram’s privacy policies should make users hyperaware of the permanence of information posted online.

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Before you update the app, make sure that you have enough space on your device for app and software updates, in addition to new apps, files, and photos. Many social networking apps, and messaging apps like WhatsApp, bloat in size over time because of all of the data they collect and store. To prepare for the update, clean out your WhatsApp app with dfndr security’s WhatsApp Cleaner. Doing so will remove old, unwanted files so that you have more space on your device. If you want to keep any old files, though, you can still do so — you can specifically select which files you want to remove from your phone. Click here to remove old, unwanted files from WhatsApp:

Another Way to Keep in Touch With Friends and Family
Unlike Snapchat and Instagram, the feature is only available to your WhatsApp contacts — other WhatsApp users that you don’t know can’t see your status updates. You can share your status updates with select individuals or all of your contacts. Since WhatsApp originally started as a way for you to keep in touch with friends and family — especially if they’re spread out over many countries — this new status feature is a great way to celebrate their birthday. It gives you a more personal way to stay in touch with others.

What Does the Status Update Offer?
Previously, you were only able to add text to your WhatsApp status update. Now, you can add photos, videos, and GIFs to better express yourself. You can share videos up to 45 seconds long — a serious improvement from other video-sharing apps. Similar to Snapchat and Instagram, your status updates only last a certain amount of time. After 24 hours, your WhatsApp status will disappear. This is meant to encourage you to constantly update your status. If anyone responds to your status update, you’ll see it in a private message, not a public comment chain. Further, like the rest of WhatsApp’s offerings, all of your status updates will feature end-to-end encryption.

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Therefore, if you take a lot of photos on your device, and edit and share them on Instagram and other social networks, then you should regularly back up and organize all of your photos. You’ll want to remove old photos and any photos that you no longer want or need on your device. Use dfndr security’s duplicate photos feature to quickly scan your device for repeated photos. You can then see all of the duplicate photos on your device, and easily remove them with the touch of a button — no need to waste time searching through tiny thumbnails for repeated images. Click here to remove duplicate photos and free up space on your device:

Instagram’s New Photo Feature
Advertisers on Instagram have been able to feature multiple photos in a single post for a while now, but recently, Instagram started testing out this feature on its users. This feature is great for showing a series of photos from a vacation or a birthday party, or a big life event like a wedding or having a baby. In this way it’s similar to an Instagram Story — only these photos don’t disappear after a select amount of time. You can share up to 10 photos and videos with this feature.

How to Share Multiple Photos and Videos
Open the Instagram app and then hit the “+” icon at the bottom of the screen. Click the image that you want to add, and then select “multiple photos.” Then, locate and click the other images that you want to add to the slideshow. You can click a photo again to remove it, or change the sequence of the photos by holding in a photo and dragging it to its desired spot. Once this is complete, you can then edit each photo or choose one filter for all of them. You’ll then be able to add a caption and share your photos. A series of dots will be displayed underneath your first photo to indicate that you have a slideshow.

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Luckily, dfndr vault will help you to keep your private photos for your eyes only.  Encrypt your photos, back them up on a cloud storage of your choice, and use the dfndr vault key to ‘unlock’ them and view them whenever you want.  Click here to hide your private photos in a hidden gallery:

For those photos that you want to share on Instagram, you now have a new way of sharing them, by creating “galleries.” You can share up to ten photos and videos in a post. This new feature is similar to the Instagram Stories feature in that it allows you to group a select number of photos together in one post. Unlike Instagram Stories, your gallery photos won’t disappear after a select amount of time.

How to Create an Instagram Gallery

1. Open the Instagram app. Next, click the “+” icon at the bottom of the screen, as you normally would whenever you want to add a new photo to Instagram.
2. Locate the image that you want to add to the gallery. Click on the image and then select the “multiple photos” option on the screen.
3. Pick which photos you want to be a part of the gallery. Click on the images that you want to add to the gallery. If you want to remove a photo, you can simply click an image again to remove it from your gallery. If you want to change the order of the photos, you can long-press a photo and drag it to where you want it in the gallery.
4. After you have chosen your photos, and the order in which you want them to be displayed, you can edit the photos individually or as a whole by choosing a single filter for all of the photos.
5. Then, create your caption. You can only create one caption for all of the photos; you can’t have a caption for each photo.
6. Now, share your gallery. To show that you have posted a gallery, a series of dots will be displayed under the first photo to indicate that there is a series of photos for your friends to look at.

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If your New Year’s resolution is to be more organized, then this could be the perfect way to achieve your goal. Still confused? Check out some of the following Instagram accounts for further explanation of what a bullet journal is. These accounts serve as great inspiration for not only creating your own bullet journal, but for organizing your life in 2017.

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@bulletjournal

The bullet journal was originally developed by Ryder Carroll, and this is her account. She considers the bullet journal to be an exercise in mindfulness. Her account mainly consists of sharing others’ bullet journals, so you’ll be sure to get a lot of “BuJo” inspiration from this account.

@focusign

This account dominantly focuses on a minimalistic approach to bullet journals. But the journaler also uses her journal to keep track of keepsake items, such as plays she went to, or Christmas cards that she received. If you’re interested in a less-intimidating version of bullet journaling, then this is a good account to look at. She shows that all you really need to make a bullet journal are a few good pens, an organized to-do list, and a splash of color.

@penpapersoul

This bullet journal account is a mix of drawings, watercolor paintings, to-do lists, keepsakes, and travel scrapbooks, among others. It’s also interesting to see how her account evolved over time. This is a great account to follow if you want to make your journal more creative.

@howtobulletjournal

This account is another less-intimidating approach to bullet journaling, depending on how you look at it. Her account focuses on diary entries in addition to to-do lists and goals, which is the easier approach to bullet journaling. But she also includes drawings and monthly themes, to really make her pages stand out.

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Facebook and Messenger

It should come as no surprise that both the Facebook app and its Messenger app were among the most downloaded apps of the year. With over one billion regular users, Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, and Messenger is its instant messaging service. With text, voice, and video messaging capabilities between individuals or groups, as well as the option to call friends around the world, Messenger has become one of the most widely used methods of smartphone communication.

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YouTube

YouTube, the go-to place for video content on the Internet, was also extremely popular. According to the video hub, about 1/3 of the people who use the Internet use YouTube. Every single day people around the world watch hundreds of millions of hours of YouTube content. And the majority of them do so using their smartphones.

Instagram

As of December 2016, the community boasted 600 million Instagrammers; 100 million of them joined in the last six months. It was the year that they introduced Instagram Stories, a feature that lets users post photos and videos that appear as a slideshow and last for 24 hours. The update has been widely embraced, even though it is very similar to Snapchat’s Stories feature.

Snapchat

Speaking of Snapchat, the photo and video-sending app was also among the most used apps of the year. The app allows users to share images and short videos that disappear after seconds, as well as slideshows that last a day. In the US, 60% of young smartphone users are on Snapchat. And now, with seemingly endless opportunities to get creative by taking advantage of filters, geotags, stickers, and drawing capabilities, it’s no wonder the app was so popular in 2016.

Pokémon Go

This app exploded onto the digital scene in 2016. Harnessing the popularity of Pokémon over the last two decades, the app uses augmented reality, which connects real-world locations and geography with virtual components. Within days of the app’s release, millions of users were walking the streets of their neighborhoods in search of Pokémon to catch. Although the initial fervor around the app has died down considerably, there’s no doubt that Pokémon Go was one of the most popular apps of the year.

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To close the distance between the initial interest in an item, and the off-app purchase of the item, Instagram has released a new shopping feature that allows you to buy an item listed through the app. With this feature, you won’t have to juggle a separate shopping app or account to view and purchase the Instagrammed items you’re interested in. Everything is done through the app.

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Which Brands Are Involved?

Many different brands, such as Warby Parker, Kate Spade, JackThreads, and Coach, are participating in the trial run of the new shopping feature. Currently, however, the shopping feature is only available for US brands. If this feature is successful during the trial phase, it could prove especially popular for trendy startup companies and international users and businesses.

How to Shop on Instagram

Whenever you view an Instagram photo of an outfit, you can now view all of the shoppable items in a post. Brands can have up to five shoppable items per post. Simply click on an item in the post to find out the price and any additional details. If you want to purchase the item, click “shop now.” You’ll then be directed to the store’s website.

Why This Feature?

Increasingly, consumers are researching, browsing, or purchasing products on their smartphones as opposed to a laptop or PC. Instagram wants to make this process even easier, by allowing you to shop for the items that inspire you directly in the app, instead of through Chrome, for example.

Why This Could Work on Instagram

Of course, this feature is only for select retailers currently, but if it proves to be successful, more retailers may become involved in the future. While other social media networks like Facebook and Twitter have had little success with e-commerce, this feature could work well with Instagram. Many fashion bloggers have turned to Instagram over the years for ease of maintenance. Their Instagrams can often be more popular than their websites. Thus, Instagram’s new shopping feature allows followers to further engage with Instagram and the brand, or blogs, they love.

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Not that long ago, big-name companies like Google, Verizon, Microsoft, Disney, and Salesforce were interested in buying Twitter. However, due to Twitter’s declining stock and reputation as a platform for hate speech, Google, Microsoft, Disney, and Salesforce have all withdrawn their bids. Disney, which had shown heavy interest in purchasing Twitter, ultimately feared that Twitter’s reputation would hurt their “wholesome” family image.

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Freedom of Speech?
For years, Twitter has been seen as a platform for free speech. While encouraging freedom of speech can be considered a noble pursuit, the company has received a lot of criticism for its tolerance of user abuse. As a private company, they can take action against hate speech on their platform. In addition, Twitter doesn’t require users to use their real names or information. The combination of both aspects has allowed for hate speech and abuse to flourish. This has caused many prominent Twitter members, such as celebrities and journalists, to “quit” Twitter.

Increasingly, critics have demanded that Twitter take action against their abusive users. With Twitter’s decrease in popularity and its future unclear, it’s no wonder that Twitter has finally started to address its harassment and abuse problem. Twitter needs to correct its image and negative reputation — especially, if the company wants to survive.

How Twitter Has Responded
Over the past year, Twitter has taken certain measures to address harassment and abuse. They have improved their system for reporting user abuse, and they added a Trust & Safety Council to help monitor behavior and prevent and report harassment. They have also started to ban frequently abusive users and dismantle hate groups. For example, over the summer they banned a prominent radical Twitter user who encouraged his followers to harass other users. Further, they have added quality and notification filters, which allow users to adjust the types of posts and notifications they receive.

While these measures have been important and successful, there are still issues of harassment and abuse, particularly with minority groups and women. Although Twitter’s abuse problem is not necessarily unique to Twitter — Facebook, Instagram, and other social networks also struggle with user harassment — if the company wants to survive, then it needs to find a more effective way to deal with user abuse. Until then, any new features that they add, such as live streaming, will be ineffective at generating new users.

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Likewise, your accounts on social media may only have a finite lifespan as you find new ways to keep in touch with family and friends. Still, even if you can’t remember the last time you used Myspace (if you ever had it) or Tumblr, this doesn’t mean that the accounts themselves are gone as well.

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Abandoned social media accounts can be problematic in this sense, as personal information may still be accessible on those sites in the form of posts, interactions with other people on the sites, and even old login information. Even if you don’t mind strangers browsing the internet to stumble on your music interests and hobbies circa 2006, the fact that your neglected social pages are a gateway that hackers and cybercriminals can use to track down and compromise your other digital properties, like emails, bank accounts, and other social pages, should strike you as troubling. Hence, it is important to ensure that a social media account is completely deleted to the best of your ability before moving on.

Here, we’ll talk about how to scrub away the Amaro and Valencia filters, and how you can amicably part ways with your Instagram.

The Process
As you would when deleting any other account online, your first step is to go onto Instagram on a computer or smartphone using the account you want to get rid of.

Next, click on the “Edit Profile” located next to your username, and scroll down. At the bottom, in lieu of a permanent “Delete My Account” button, you’ll be met with a more tepid “I want to temporarily disable my account” button.

Here is where things get somewhat trickier. Since Instagram doesn’t provide you with a way to completely erase any trace of your account on the platform in the form of comments, likes, photos, and direct messages, you may wish to remove all of these yourself manually. Depending on how often you’ve used the account in question, this could be a rather short and simple process, or one that would take weeks to realize. Assuming your account would require the latter, it isn’t necessary unless you don’t fully trust Instagram will keep your information filed even after erasure.

In any event, after you select the “temporary disable” button, you’ll be given further options for permanently deleting your account. All you need to do is follow this link while you’re still logged in, fill out the fields saying why you’ve decided to delete, and presto! Just keep in mind, however, that you can only delete your account while logged in to a computer or a laptop — you will only receive the “temporary disable” prompt if you’re on mobile.

If you ever decide you have buyer’s remorse and want your account restored, have no fear! The username will still be available, although your photos will be wiped if you decide to return.

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Instagram is taking a large bound towards mitigating the cyberbullying crisis that occurs daily in their social media outlet. Instagram has recently launched a setting that allows users to tailor their own profanity filter. Users can now manually enter words they do not want to appear on their page. This is an excellent way to avoid trolls or the other negativity that swarms social media.

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While this new feature is available for celebrities and high profile accounts, standard Instagram accounts won’t get to experience the same privilege for a few weeks. Obviously, swear words are extremely common to ban, especially if it’s a kid-friendly Instagram account. However, several users have chosen to ban political words, such as Trump or Clinton.

Nicky Jackson Colaco, Instagram’s head of Public Policy, said that she wanted to avoid a blanket ban on certain words because she wants users to be able to exercise their right of free expression. On the same page, she wants Instagram to be a safe zone for users who are more sensitive to harsh language.

As a result, this user-friendly filter is an excellent way to bridge the gap between a safe environment and freedom of speech.

It will be interesting to see if other social media networks decide to take this same path. It seems as if Facebook and Twitter would be more prone to implement this type of policy, as their networks are much larger and likely attract much more harassment and vitriol. However, it is nice to see Instagram is taking a step in the right direction in terms of minimizing online harassment.

Instagram has been under some scrutiny lately because of its similarity to Snapchat. Specifically, their new “stories” system is similar to Snapchat’s story system in terms of name and function. Both allow their users to post a photo for their followers to see for 24 hours. Despite this criticism, Instagram is certainly taking a large step in protecting our youth from harmful cyberbullying.

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Follower Stats for Instagram
This is a free app that will provide you with Instagram information that the app itself does not offer. You can also purchase the Premium Pack, which will unlock even more features. Some of the free features include new followers, who’s not following you back, and who unfollowed/blocked you. Some other features in the Premium Pack include your biggest fans, ghost followers, and inactive users.

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Iconosquare
Iconosquare offers a wide variety of Instagram information that would be helpful for businesses or any other account that has a high number of followers. With Iconosquare, you can conveniently see how many accounts follow you and unfollow you on a daily basis. Iconosquare also offers graphs that will help you visualize how your account has grown over time. The app also shows you what filters and hashtags attract the most traffic on your page. Moreover, Iconosquare will show you the best time to post based upon the number of likes, comments, and engagements you get.

InsTrack
InsTrack offers services that are similar to the Follower Stats for the Instagram app mentioned above. The InsTrack app is unique because it can show you a list of who your best Instagram friends are based upon interactions. Plus, the app allows you to track your biggest fans and who followed/unfollowed you. You can also share these findings on other social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.

InstaFollow for Instagram
While this application offers several features listed in many of the apps above, it also allows you to add multiple accounts. You can sort your pictures/videos based upon the most likes, comments, views, and etc. With an optional purchase, you can also gain access to your ghost followers and “secret admirers.” Lastly, the app can show you which of your followers is most popular in terms of activity and likability.

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Create a complex password. Use at least one capital letter, a number, and a symbol. This will make your password nearly impenetrable to hackers. This is because hackers oftentimes use algorithms that can pry into your password. These algorithms run basic English words by your password at an extremely fast rate, and if there is a match, it informs the hacker, making your account vulnerable. On the other hand, utilizing numbers, symbols, and capital letters confuses this algorithm, and it makes your password much stronger.

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Make your password unique. Birthdays, pets, and names as passwords make a hacker’s job easy. A cleverly constructed password will always keep a hacker guessing.

Use separate passwords for all of your social media accounts. If you only use one universal password for all accounts, then all of your accounts will be compromised if one gets hacked. A long, unique password for each account is an excellent safety measure to take to prevent hacking.

Don’t give your password away. Ever. No exceptions. Especially over email. If you get an email from Instagram or another social media account asking for your password, it is likely a phisher posing as the networks to try to hack your password. Don’t fall for this trap — social media networks will never ask for your password via email.

Use PSafe Total’s Vault feature. This component of PSafe Total for Android lets you lock specific apps on your phone. This adds a second layer of protection to important apps, even if you already have a lock screen on your phone. Use Vault to put a second password on your Instagram. This way, if your phone gets lost or stolen, hackers will find that there are multiple barriers protecting your Instagram account.

Use PSafe Total’s Antivirus protection. This feature also has you covered. With PSafe Total’s antivirus protection, you can quickly scan all phone files and your SD card to fix any security breaches. Hackers trying to use malware to gain access to your phone (and, possibly, your Instagram) will be deterred immediately. This feature automatically keeps you protected from all online threats 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Four years ago, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Facebook tried to take over Snapchat, too — they put forth a hefty $3 billion acquisition offer back in 2013. But Snapchat walked away, and now boasts more than 150 million users every day.

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In the years since, Facebook has tried to lure consumers away from the ever-growing Snapchat, which continues to gain substantial amounts of users. However, Facebook’s newest innovation, Instagram Stories, certainly mimics the popular aspects of its major competitor. Could it dethrone Snapchat in the world of disappearing images?

How To Use Instagram Stories
Anyone who is already using Snapchat will easily pick up on how to use the new Instagram Stories feature. Update your Instagram app to reflect the new home screen layout that highlights stories at the top of your feed.

You can easily add your own photo or video by tapping the plus sign in the upper left-hand corner or by swiping right on your phone. This screen looks a whole lot like Snapchat with its full screen view from your camera phone. Choose whether you want the camera to face toward or away from you by pressing the lower right-hand button.

Snap your shot or film that video by pressing down on the shutter button located in the middle of the screen. Need flash? You can find that on the left-hand side.

Once you take a pic, you can add text or draw on it — just like with Snapchat. There are a few tools to choose from, like a slider to adjust the thickness of your line, nine colors to play around with, and a glowing marker for a dash of laser-like fun.

Ready to share your masterpiece? Tap the checkmark at the bottom of your screen to share it to your Story, where it will remain live for twenty-four hours. Tip: you can also save it to your “Camera Roll” if you hit the right-hand download button.

SnapChat Copycat
If you are a fan of Snapchat, you will enjoy this new Instagram addition. It’s just one more option to play around with your images and video and make them your own.

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Remember: if you do regram someone else’s photo, there’s etiquette that should be followed. Always give credit where credit is due.

Read More: How to Repost a Photo or Video on Instagram

Saving Photos on Most Android Phones:

1. First, find the down-volume and the sleep/wake button of the side of your phone. These are the physical buttons, not buttons on your screen.

2. Next, hold both buttons down at the same time.

3. When the screen flashes, you will have taken and saved a screenshot.

4. Once you’ve taken your screenshot, you can view it in the Gallery app. It will likely be saved in an album called “Screenshots.” You can treat it like any other photo, cropping or adjusting the image to your liking.

5. Once the screenshot is saved, opening the Instagram app and navigating to post (a camera icon) will prompt you to upload your recently-snapped screenshot.

If This Doesn’t Work and You Have an Android Phone:

1. If you tried the above method and it didn’t work, check to see if you have a home button. Some Android phones with a home button don’t take screenshots in the way previously described.

2. If you do have a home button, hold it down along with the power button until the screen flashes.

3. Once the screenshot is taken, follow steps four and five described above.

Saving Pictures on a PC:

1. Locate the PrtScn (Print Screen) button on your computer. This button is unusually located in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
2.  Click the button to save whatever is on your screen. Remember, this will save your entire screen, not just the Instagram photo.

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1. Boomerang

Ever seen a GIF on your feed and wished you could create something that cool? Boomerang makes the process easy and fun. All you have to do is record a short video of everyday moments. Boomerang will loop the video and format it so it’s perfect and ready for posting. You can even post the video onto Facebook and Instagram directly from the app. No sign up. No account. No fees. That wave rolling on the shore will look much better with Boomerang.

2. A Color Story

Sometimes the default filters on Instagram can’t quite make your selfie or expresso photos vibrant or distinguished. A Color Story is the perfect solution to those feelings of photo inadequacy. This app takes your photo and focusses on colors that make your photo stand out. It highlights them for you and then offers different filters for additional edits. Unlike the instagram app, A Color Story allows you to combine filters and save previous edits to make sure that you do not lose any effects on the finished project.

3. Font Studio

Sometimes when posting a photo, you might feel like a caption would look better on top instead of at the bottom. Font Studio allows you to add typography directly onto your image. The app has over 120 fonts, with even more available to download based on your location! You can rotate, shrink and enlarge the text directly on the screen, and can add multiple layers and designs. It even comes with photo editing tools like contrast, blur and saturation to allow you to choose the focus of your photo. Writing is not your thing? The app also includes over 400 stickers, specifically word art and cartoons.

4. A Beautiful Mess

Like doodling? If so, A Beautiful Mess is the app for you. This program allows you to add popular doodles from Elsie and Emma, the two founders of the award winning blog “A Beautiful Mess”, directly onto your photos. In addition, the app is perfect for collaging and layering, and allows for direct publication on Facebook or Instagram.

5. SKRWT

The SKRWT app has been gaining a lot of publicity, and it’s easy to see why. Do you have photos taken in landscape formatting unfit for the Instagram app? SKRWT corrects all distortions with one swipe. Are blurry lenses an issue for you? SKRWT can fix that with its lens correction tool. These features have made SKRWT one of the “Best Apps in 2014,” declared by the App Store as well as the 5 Can’t-Miss iPhone Apps by Time.Com.

These apps will push your Instagram over the edge. Happy snapping!

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Facebook
The same rules that you’d follow when running a business/brand account apply here as well, although there are fewer requirements. Posting one to three times a day is a surefire way to maintain a balance between being engaging and being annoying. As long as you put up some photos and avoid getting too deep or personal on a daily basis, you can post what’d you’d like to. Just don’t post song lyrics — it’s not 2007 anymore!

Instagram
There are many ways to build a respectable personal presence on Instagram, but you have to make sure that you aren’t cataloging every moment of your life. That said, you can’t check your account once a year and expect your followers to stick with you. Posting once every two or three days is a good way to maintain a balance if you don’t want to commit to posting every day.

However, posting more than once a day might cause you to lose likes and followers. As far as what to post, make sure you mix it up between photos of people (including yourself), cute viewpoints, and some artsy-looking food occasionally, along with some other engaging, interesting stuff that reflects who you are.

Twitter
As we mentioned in our article about social media habits for brands, Twitter posts tend to get lost amongst the masses of other posts in less than an hour, so you’re good to post a little bit more without enraging your following. To be more specific, four or five posts a day is plenty for the average person, and the basic rules for what to post on Facebook and Instagram apply here as well, although memes are perfectly acceptable and encouraged every now and then.

LinkedIn
People aren’t going to be reading LinkedIn posts on the weekend unless they have absolutely nothing to do besides read LinkedIn posts. To make sure that your posts reach the highest number of people possible, stick to posting during the business week, and keep it (relatively) quiet — once a week should be fine if you’re employed. If you’re looking for work, however, you can ramp it up to one per weekday to show that you’re active and enthusiastic about your industry.

However, make sure that you’re participating in discussions and helping out your peers with questions they have about the industry rather than just sharing articles and expecting people to care about news they could find on the Forbes or Time websites.

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1. PhotoRepost

Formerly known as InstaRepost, this free app lets you repost photos and videos in seconds. The photos and videos will appear in a single column on the app, or in a grid view. Once you’ve found the photo/video you want to share, tap “repost” underneath it. You will then be able to place a watermark of the original user’s name in any corner of the picture, and can choose between three transparency levels.

If you’d like to remove the app’s logo from the picture, download the upgraded version. Then, open the photo in Instagram as either a direct repost, or a quote repost (the quote repost will include the original photo/video’s caption while the former will let you write one of your own). Videos, on the other hand, will be downloaded to your camera roll where you can then upload it directly to Instagram.

2. RepostWhiz

Yet another free photo/video sharing app! On RepostWhiz, the photos and videos will again show up in a single column or grid view. Search for the specific photo/video you want to share, or find a photo/video worth sharing by using likes, hashtags or usernames to search. Once you have selected your photo/video, press “repost” right underneath it. If you’d rather post it later, you can always save it to your camera. All reposts will appear with the app’s name on it.

Read More: 5 Stunning Behind-the-Scenes Instagram Accounts

3. Repost for Instagram

Another free photo/video sharing app—how lucky are we? Open the app, view your feed, and tap on the photo or video you’d like to repost on your own account. The original user’s account, and profile image will appear as a black or white bar on your reposted image. It can be rotated to all four sides, depending on what you like best. Press “Repost” to open, and share the photo or video on your Instagram account. An upgraded, ad-free version is also available.

Sharing Greatness

And there you have it. Simple, no? Just a few quick downloads, and you’re ready to go. Have you used any of these apps before? Let us know your favorites in the comments below!

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Just recently, GIFs started gaining popularity in the world of social media. However, the fact that they are not-quite-pictures, but not-quite-videos can make the process of inserting them into different venues complicated. Here is a quick guide on how you can use GIFs on all of your favorite social media platforms:

Instagram
 To use a GIF on Instagram, you must save, and select the file from your device. If you find the GIF online, save it as a link instead of an image. You can then download the GIF onto your phone, via the link, and it will be saved to your camera roll. When you enter Instagram, click on the button to the left of the shutter to open your photo gallery, and select the desired GIF.

 Facebook
To post a GIF in a Facebook status update, or on someone’s wall, simply paste the URL of the GIF into the “Update status” option. This will upload the GIF in a visual format to the status.

To post a GIF in a Facebook comment, you must go to the far right corner of the “Add a comment” option. There you’ll see a button labeled “GIF.” When you click on this button, you can upload a link of the GIF as a comment.

 Read More: How To Find Hidden Facebook Messages

Twitter
GIFs can be uploaded to Twitter via the photo gallery after downloading the link to your device. Using the same process described for Instagram, download the link from a website, and the GIF will be saved to your camera roll. Once the GIF is downloaded, tap the camera icon on Twitter, and select the desired GIF from your photo gallery.

To use a GIF from the GIF library, tap the button labeled “GIF” on Twitter, and you will have access to Twitter’s GIF database. Keep in mind that you can only include one GIF per Tweet, but they will be posted in full size.

Post in a Giphy!
GIFs are not the only fun, high tech option available for your social media outlets. If you’re interested in upping your Facebook game in other ways, check out our blog post on the latest Facebook features, and download PSafe TOTAL so your GIFs will never lag on you again

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1. Walt Disney Studios (@disneystudios)

Are you counting down the days until the premiere of Finding Dory? If you want the inside scoop on Disney’s latest releases, look no further than the Walt Disney Studios account! Followers are treated to adorable animations, character sketches, and exclusive sneak peeks into movies in the making (Have you heard about Moana?). With everything from artwork to previews, this account has enough exclusive content to impress even the famous mouse himself.

2. Spotify Design Team (@spotifydesign)

You may know Spotify as a music streaming service, but have you ever taken a moment to appreciate the stunning visual design of the site? The creative geniuses responsible are members of the Spotify design team, and lucky for us, they operate their own Instagram account. By following this account, users can get a glimpse into the quirky Spotify office, and the eccentric and incredibly talented designers who work there.

Read More: How to Use and Connect with the Instagram App

3. Science Channel (@sciencechannel)

Do you ever wonder how your favorite products are made? If so, the Science Channel Instagram account has you covered! Check out posts featuring the hashtag #howitsmade to get an inside look at the science behind everything from ice cream cones to football stadiums.

4. IKEA Today (@ikeatoday)

IKEA furniture is known for its Swedish design, and by following the IKEA Today account, followers get an exclusive look at the design process for IKEA’s newest collections. Featuring preliminary sketches, designer testimonials, and product prototypes, this account will leave you inspired to redecorate a room or two.

5. NBC Olympics (@nbcolympics)

Don’t wait for the games to begin to get connected to the Olympics through social media! While NBC is known for its up-to-date coverage of every game, the NBC Olympics Instagram account gives followers an inside look into the lives of athletes competing in those games, and the construction of the stadiums in which it all takes place. With the Rio games only months away, followers can get an inside glance at Rio 2016 merchandise, the Olympic torch relay, and breathtaking photos of the host city.

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Connectivity
Since the incoming of the millennial generation, people are accustomed to, and obsessed with, knowing what all the people in their social network are doing. Apps like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter rely on news feeds to keep you up-to-date on your friends’ daily lives, and major events. The ability to scroll through a string of posts, and get immediate information about what is happening to those around you, is appealing to a generation increasingly obsessed with having a hold on their social group’s whereabouts.

Comparison
People in the technology age are inherently nosy. We love knowing exactly what other people are doing, wearing, and even thinking. News feeds give us quick details that satisfy this nosiness, though many of us use them for comparison’s sake. You can easily scroll through a list of posts, and compare your beach vacation to your coworker’s, or the cuteness of your dog to your aunt’s new puppy. A news feed gives us the ability to fulfill our need for comparison, and get immediate affirmation about just how good our lives are.

Convenience
Ultimately, gathering information from this format is just easy. By scrolling through a newsfeed, a viewer gets a new bit of information every few seconds, appealing to the ever-shortening attention span. Quickly checking the news, and seeing what the people in our area, and social network are up to, involves minimal finger movement, minimal time, and minimal attention. In a population increasingly interested in being more efficient, and more productive, a news feed is the quickest option for satisfying our need for information.

Keep on Scrolling
Ultimately, all the news feeds you’re seeing on your Android apps reflect a demand for constant information, updates, and access. It’s what people are looking for! In the age of staying connected, there couldn’t be more options, and yet, more and more social networks arrive every year.

If you are looking to have a few more news feeds in your life, check out our blog posts on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and more.

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