Instagram isn't alerting people when you screenshot, you creep

Taking screenshots of Instagram posts is a right of social media passage. We all do it, but a recent update to the app has avid Instagram users on edge.

After news broke that Instagram would be alerting users when friends take a screenshot of their "disappearing messages," many people became extremely paranoid that Instagram is also sending notifications when they take a screenshot of a photograph. 

Before you have a social media-induced panic attack, let us assure you, Instagram is not sending notifications every time you take a screenshot. Notifications only occur when you take a screenshot in the app's new disappearing message feature. Read more...