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Instagram Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company reflects significant dissatisfaction, primarily due to a perceived lack of effective customer support and transparency. Customers frequently express frustration with automated responses and difficulty in resolving account issues, leading to feelings of neglect and confusion. Additionally, concerns about the prevalence of fake accounts and content moderation practices contribute to a toxic user experience. On a positive note, some users appreciate the platform's visual appeal and connectivity features. However, the overarching sentiment indicates a growing discontent with the company's responsiveness and commitment to user well-being, suggesting a need for improved customer engagement strategies.

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Better than facebook
November 11, 2018

I find it better than facebook, even though it is now owned by it. The news feed is more oriented to my needs and it's overall less annoying than FB.

Date of experience: November 9, 2018
Arizona
19 reviews
76 helpful votes
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INSTAGRAM AWFUL
October 29, 2018

Instagram is a social webpage, normally great I cannot get them to contact me or anyone, awful. People are changing passwords, phone numbers and contact, and cannot contact instagram at all. I used to like them, but, there is no way of reaching out even with a phone call, it is terrible. People are hacking on Instagram and no one cares, no one sends or responds to messages. No one seems to care or help at all.

Date of experience: October 29, 2018
GB
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Great
October 19, 2018

I think it has even more potential than facebook because instagram isn't as boring and annoying as the former.

Date of experience: October 18, 2018
India
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Shoes_storez88
October 12, 2018

Please don't trust this account in Instagram. They are thieves.
The person will ask you to transfer money through paytm to this phone number - *******309. But, he will never ship your product or respond to you.

Never ever trust this account. I have raised multiple complaints with respect to this account.

Instagram account is, shoes_storez88
Phone number is, *******309.
There is no response when you call the above number.

Date of experience: October 12, 2018
Australia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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It is now 28th of September and it's been more than 1 week my account is hacked. I submitted a request to Instagram three times but they never get back to me. Then I called their office on Australia and the guy told me that I need to pay 190$ to retrieve back my account. They never value your privacy and they request lots of money for a free app. At least they can block or close the account.

Date of experience: September 27, 2018
Missouri
1 review
10 helpful votes
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The amount of nudity i find on instagram is ungodly. If it's males, then instagram will remove the post. If it's female nudity then instagram rejects your report and says they don't violate the community guideline. It's honestly disappointing. I swear im not lettingg any of my children get this app until they're 18. So many disturbing pictures nowadays. Women posting nudes acting as dogs, women just posting nude in general.

Date of experience: September 24, 2018
GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I booked this lady, the person who runs and operates Dupegele in 2018 to do gele for me and some other ladies. I admit that she is good at tying gele, but because she is good she thinks it is her right to take proper liberties with how she chooses to conduct her business.

You will call, text and WhatsApp Dupegele endlessly and the woman will never get back to you. Employ a Customer Service Representative if you can't be bothered to take calls for goodness sake. It's basic common sense. She also never acknowledges payment or has the decency to say thank you.

Dupegele don't even confirm bookings properly. She just runs her business like a total novice! I find this sort of thing rude and very unprofessional... you're not doing us a favour at the end of the day. We are paying for a service. And this stuff seems to be common with her as I have heard and read other poor reviews about her behaviour. You focus on only only your good reviews, why not learn from all the bad ones instead of deleting or ignoring them like an unserious human being?

On the day of the booking Dupegele arrived extremely late, which had knock-on effects to the day and never even bothered to apologise properly. You would think with all the money she is making, she would drive. But is there taking public transport everywhere. How is that someone to be relied upon realistically?

To be blunt, Dupegele needs to get her $#*! together. There is only so far a business can go with talent alone. If you are good at the service and don't have good business skills, your business can never reach the full potential. This so-called businesswoman don't even have simple website, like seriously?

I would not recommend her at all. Expensive, unprofessional and not good value for money at all considering the extremely crappy customer service you receive. Go elsewhere!

https://www.instagram.com/dupe_gele

Date of experience: September 18, 2018
Connecticut
1 review
10 helpful votes
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The things that are allowed on this site, like Facebook, are unacceptable. Not interested, nor will I support a site that allows the promotion of drug use and young women acting as sex slaves. Although they have guidelines, they are too loose if drug use and what appears to me as pornography, are allowed. Facebook and Instagram should not be allowed!

Date of experience: September 2, 2018
California
76 reviews
124 helpful votes
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I love Instagram because I can see what my classmates do outside of school or celebrity's are doing. Only problem is, is that Instagram doesn't show what everyone's posted

Date of experience: August 5, 2018
Malaysia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Instagram has practically zero customer support. I got locked out and no explanation was given. To add to that I couldn't get any help. I haven't even started posting and just started to follow a few people. If only they manage their policies better rather than just for making money, since Instagram is part of Facebook...

Date of experience: August 5, 2018
Delaware
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I tried to set up an account on Instagram and an automatic pop-up told me someone was already using my email on Instagram. I emailed them about it 3 times and they have completely ignored me. The person using my email has an name written in Arabic script and is a male. I am a female with an American name. Instagram does not care to correct this situation,

Date of experience: July 18, 2018
Washington
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Love It
June 19, 2018

Best of all social media application I had on my phone. All moments captured looks amazing. So happy to download this.

Date of experience: June 18, 2018
Georgia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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My personal account was "compromised" over a week ago. The person changed all of my login information and unlinked it from my Facebook account (I still get notifications of what I posted on Instagram "on this day" in the past.) I can not get a response from any person in the company let alone support. I have been reporting every day, multiple times a day, through the steps in the app, online through the website, on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. I even have friends reporting the issue for me on my behalf. If anyone at Instagram is reading this, please, I understand you are busy, but I would greatly appreciate some help. (*******@aol.com)

Date of experience: April 23, 2018
Canada
3 reviews
9 helpful votes
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It could be better...
April 20, 2018

Instagram is great and all when you are taking photos and sharing them online but there should be a button that says "will you hurt anyone with this post?". A lot of bullying happens because of instagram I have had an experience myself "your username is too long" oh my gosh you look like garbage in this photo" "just stop trying..." Instagram should be for pictures not for bullying...

Date of experience: April 19, 2018
Luxembourg
3 reviews
6 helpful votes
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I've been trying to contact them nultiple times bc my profile was hacked. Got no respond, nth! I tried to contact them on Twitter, via their stupid forms, via emails, nothing is working, they just don't care about your personal data! I have never had such a terrible experience with customer support as with Instagram.

Date of experience: March 27, 2018
Texas
4 reviews
45 helpful votes
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Instant Gratification
March 20, 2018

What else can be said of Instagram? Great place to post photos, great place to promote business, great place to join community, great place to share your thoughts,... Powerful tool. Powerful communication.

Date of experience: March 19, 2018
Maryland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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As stated in many reviews very poor or I should say zero support, no way to contact and I have a business a hair salon and really need to use Instagram. Tried to sign in won't accept my info tried changing my password and doesn't recognize anything. Tried everything for a solid hour I have a business to run no time for this so I have not been using Instagram... No thanks Victoria Nagy AT Vikki's Hair Studio Millersville MD *******

Date of experience: March 8, 2018
Czechia
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
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For kicks
January 30, 2018

Love insta, who doesnt! I do a lot of insta traveling, its much better than facebook in my opinion. Go Instagram!

Date of experience: January 30, 2018
Sri Lanka
1 review
1 helpful vote
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More features
November 24, 2017

Instagram app is amazing. But the website version lacks many key features like the ability to DM, reply to stories, upload posts etc. Hope we could see those soon!

Thank You,

Date of experience: November 23, 2017
China
4 reviews
17 helpful votes
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Instagram is definitely not for anyone. If you are more picture-oriented type of social media person, than this is the right type of app for you. I particularly like it because of the filtered content pictures with captions and nothing more. By choosing which account you want to follow, many other suggestions appear, based on your taste of course. What I dont like are the ads, I constantly press Hide Content. I liked Instagram better when it was ads free. It has some bugs, of course, like any other app, like when it slows while you scroll. What I miss is the part when you can add and create your own location. They used to have it, but removed it. The Stories they introduced while ago with all those stickers are funny and entertaining. Instagram is one of the most popular social media, and overall I like it. I post pictures whenever I like, collect likes or comments and that is enough for me. The filters might need an update and upgrade, because I find the Snapseed app far better than the Instagram filters. However, they can improve few things but I know that it will be done in the near future it is just the market competition they are having in mind and the right time. Instagram, you have my support but you need to improve the app.

Date of experience: November 23, 2017