@matthew_d_green: After talking with college students, I’m gobsmacked by how many of them use Instagram as their main person-to-person te…
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The author expresses surprise at the widespread use of Instagram for personal text communication among college students and criticizes Meta's removal of end-to-end encryption from the app.
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