I'd guess the simple answer may be that people don't care/know, but for those that have ditched Facebook for whatever reason, yet still use Instagram, it's a little surprising.

Is it partly a result of it being a more focused/limited form of social media that filters out some of the stuff people didn't like from Facebook?

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[–] 7 points 3 years ago

Because it got popular when it was it's own independent company, and THEN Facebook bought it.

And that purchase happened in 2012, well before Cambridge Anylitica broke as a story.

It's more that people saw no reason to leave, and by the time there were good reasons, Instagram was too large and established to easily dump for most people.

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