Unwanted Instagram Follow Suggestions

[Khamon]

My Instagram feed has been flooded, flooded, with posts from odd accounts the past couple of weeks. All of the posts include follow buttons. Is this something I can adjust in settings or is it a good reason to abandon the service. Oh wise experts advise this casual user.

 

[Monica Dream]

Are you able to set it as a private account (under settings)? Or do you need it to be open?

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I'll just point out that Instagram is owned by Facebook.....

My instagram isn't even under the same freaking email, and I keep getting suggestions to follow my FB friends [I think its getting worse as people leave FB - I know it seems worse since I stopped paying attention to mine]