Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account

davel , 2 months ago

no thanks xi

It’s coming from inside the Instagram! specter

How much US military-industrial Kool-Aid have you drunk?

lud , 2 months ago

It was a joke. Calm down .ml

davel , 2 months ago

Shrödinger’s joke

frauddogg , 2 months ago

Schrodinger's Douchebag

reverendsteveii , 2 months ago

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/c9618d2e-6df9-4416-ab9b-f5735b8a39ab.webp

Tiltinyall , 2 months ago

A wild tankie appears and minimizes China's surveillance state. Hey there you, have any Chinese immigrant friends? Did you know they are survielled and harassed around the world by the Chinese govenment? Your leaders will always fail you, mine too. I'm not gonna sit here in denial about it.

314xel , 2 months ago

Instead of my ID, I submitted a picture of dolphins and the text "So long and thanks for all the fish!". And never came back.

helenslunch , 2 months ago

Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi).

I mean, I hate Facebook as much as the next guy but...I'm pretty sure your Facebook page probably already has hundreds of photos of you, so it doesn't seem like a big ask, but it also seems like a terrible verification method...

ReversalHatchery , 2 months ago

I've been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently

I doubt that they have uploaded any kind of photos

helenslunch , 2 months ago

They said "for the past 3 years", indicating they were using it previously.

7eter , 2 months ago

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helenslunch , 2 months ago

What is your point? Do you just not realize the world existed prior to 3 years ago?

ReversalHatchery , 2 months ago

You're right, I misunderstood it

TWeaK , 2 months ago

I'm a little gutted that I lost my Facebook account, if only because it was so old I had a username. Instead of my profile only being facebook.com/<number>, my profile was like facebook.com/tweak. People were really surprised by that.

However they blocked my account because I used 3rd party web wrapper apps and once had a poor internet connection in a remote location. It asked me to log in again, I did, then it said "you've done something strange" and demanded government ID. I actually complied (although I taped up most of the info, like it said I could) but it kept automatically rejecting it. I think it was because my profile used the shortened version of my name, which I go by on a day to day basis, while my ID uses the full version.

One of these days I might twist their arm with GDPR and get them to grant me access, however my local ICO has been pretty toothless under the current right wing government. I don't really miss Facebook, but there are friends and family on there I'd like to contact, and I was a member of a particularly good meme group.

BruceLee , 2 months ago

I don't give my picture to social media but in a way the fact that you have to take pictures directly from your app is the proper way to digitalised identifing someone. Back to the time where people phisically register, people will showed up to prove which face they have an match it with an non reproductible identity card. But, now I could easily inpersonnate 5 or 10 of my relative and love-ones from the picture I have from them and image of their id-card or another official document they have give me access to, or they have access from my computer once.

synae , 2 months ago

absolute_win.gif

Blxter , 2 months ago

That's actually crazy.... I have had an Instagram since like the start but have no posts on my account. I guess I have a pfp but that's it. I also don't really get on it.

Templa , 2 months ago

I've had this happen and did upload the selfie but I think it happened because I was blocking some extra stuff that it was flagging my account to be automated

gmtom , 2 months ago

How did you get in contact with them? They locked my account 2 months ago for unknown reasons.