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VIDEO: San Francisco police shoot and kill stabbing suspect

By Joshua Barajas

Five San Francisco police officers fatally shot a man Wednesday, a scene that was apparently captured by an eyewitness and uploaded to Instagram, the San Francisco Examiner reported.

Facebook is changing how parents raise their kids

By Laura Santhanam

Most parents who use social media today find information about raising children through their networking sites and care little about what information friends and family share on social media about their kids, a new study finds.

Teens often turn to smartphones as gateway to social media

By Laura Santhanam

Thanks largely to the proliferation of smartphones, about one-quarter of all teenagers today spend nearly every waking moment of their lives online, often using social media, according to new research that should come as no surprise to many parents.

iPhone cases featuring stolen, grisly war photos appear for sale on Amazon

By Joshua Barajas

"Who wants to buy a picture with a dead child on it," said Tomas van Houtryve, a National Geographic photographer, who recently surfaced several unauthorized Amazon phone case sales in a series of posts on Instagram.

Photographers use Instagram to paint more complete picture of life in Africa

By PBS News Hour

Instead of focusing on only hardships, a group of photographers living and working in Africa have started an Instagram campaign to show the rest of the world what life in Africa is really like. Saskia de Melker reports.

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Slogging through the Met, one Instagram post at a time

By Hannah Yi

"Museum Hack" aims to recruit a new wave of millennial visitors to museums in New York City. NewsHour Weekend tagged along at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to learn more. Here's our behind-the-scenes look at the highly-"Instagramable" tour.

Poll: What do you think of millennial-friendly museum tours?

By PBS News Hour

NewsHour Weekend asks: How do you feel about the idea of making museums more appealing to millennials with unconventional museum tours?…

Instagram reaches 200 million users, passes Twitter in U.S. mobile use

By Colleen Shalby

Mashable reported Wednesday that during a phone conference about Facebook’s purchase of virtual reality company Oculus VR, Mark Zuckerberg casually dropped the fact that Instagram now has two million users.

Circumventing the Turkish Twitter crackdown

By Hari Sreenivasan

After the government in Turkey attempted to ban Twitter on Friday, social media savvy youth in the country almost immediately found ways around the block.