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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 (szmer.info)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I've given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It's unreal how strict the requirements are now.

Give e-mail (ok)
Give phone number (.... eeh, ok)
Use the new account for a while
Account suspended, please upload selfie to continue (no thanks xi). There are also some verification promps where you have to record a video and rotate your face left to right

If this isn't a message to move to indie web I don't know what is

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah. I used to have fake facebook account because i got hooked on one of those mmorpg games. IDK what happened but something did and my account got suspended and FB requested me to upload my face and government ID. Yeah fuck that, uploaded some NSFW images and my account got deleted. Worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I used a fake name on Facebook and one day I similarly got suspended asking for government ID. So I photoshopped some fake ID with the fake name, printed it, put it in a plastic sleeve and took a photo of that, and they accepted it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Many years ago I had a Facebook account under my real name, and they blocked it and told me to verify ... I did everything they asked and they wouldn't accept it... I recreated it under a fake name (very obvious it's fake since it uses a celeb name) and have been using it for messaging a couple of friends for like a decade now with no issue

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Note that the people verifying that picture are not the people who set the policies or systems in place. You abused an innocent who's just trying to earn some bread, you didn't send NSFW materials to Zuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Are there actually people in the loop? Are you sure it's not all bots? It's not like they will communicate with you at all about your ban aside from template emails.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I mean its not like i send some gore pictures or anything. The person on the end probably got some good chuckles about it. Eh, its harmless joke. You dont have to think about it too much.