InstagramReviews 460

/instagram is horrible i posted one thing and I only get one follower un like twitter I have 12 and I haven't posted any thing weird huh?

Very poor customer service! Years ago they use to be very prompt in answering and didn't have copy/paste automated responses. I can't even get an account removed that is not only infringing on my copyrighted work but also pretending to be me & copy/pasting my work. It's been over a week and Instagram has done nothing but sent me back automated responses.

I've sent in reports under copyright infringement & impostor. NOTHING has been done. Their report function is a joke now, they don't care at all about their users. You can't even contact them to talk to an actual person. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if they don't even read any of the reports sent to them.

1.) I try to contact the Instagram staff often with the issues I find. DMs with images will double post constantly, both from sender and receiver, not an internet connection issue.

2.) Notifications are flooded when a single user goes through your account, so it'll spam you and you'll lose *******@mention conversations you're having. Sometimes, there's an update that will group different users who like a recent post, but for some reason, it will disappear and you'll be spammed by Like notifications again.

3.) Apparently, IG has audio calls now. Want to know how I found out? Some random people, who I don't follow, were able to add me to a group, then several of them started calling me for 30 minutes straight to troll me for fun. It was so odd. I had to manually go into my settings to turn off this feature that I had NO IDEA even existed.

4.) Algorithm is trash. I see so many content creators who are phenomenal and yet they struggle to get noticed. They end up leaving IG because they re-post their content to other sites with decent algorithms and will build a following QUICKLY and MORE than their IG accounts. IG needs a wake-up call. Maybe they should enable random people to audio-call them with critiques since they loved allowing calls from total strangers to their users.

There's several other issues here and there, but those are the bigger ones.

The feedback feature seems like it puts your comment right into a digital shredder. You never hear back from anyone.

Do you identify as a Liberal? Instagram is the place for you! They delete accounts that have any other political opinions.

Not only that, users can get innocent accounts taken down easily (just spam report accounts you slightly dislike. And boom.) and once your account get taken down, it's a huge pain to get it back. Hours of talking to Instagram support, you have to send a PHOTO OF YOURSELF, and they'll often ban you from creating an account or logging into one (AND DO NOT REMOVE IT.) (seriously, I've spent 10+ hours on Instagram support trying to get them to unban me and fix my accounts.)

I've had 8 of my political accounts been taken down, simply by people who dislike them.

I've had people raid my account (Getting people to spam it) because they dislike it slightly.

Hell, I got an account taken down that had 27k followers (@pro. Choice) just to see if I could. (they got their account back after 1-2 weeks.)

TLDR: Instagram has awful support and staff, and you constantly get deleted and punished even if you've broken no rules.

I USED to use instagram but NEVER again. My account got hacked and instagram won't do anything about shutting down my account that is now promoting the selling of sex while spamming all my friends half naked pictures of women. IT LITERALLY NOW HAS A LINK TO GET SEXUAL FAVORS OR PORN. I don't know how it was hacked, but Not only have I lost all ability to access my account and pictures of my family are now lost, but my dozens of calls and emails have gone unanswered nothing has been done about this account that many of my friends have blocked and reported. My calls were clearly redirected out of the country and I was met with incomplete employees if they even deserved that title that didn't even take down my account info before saying quickly "I'll fix it" and hanging up. WHAT A JOKE! If you are a parent like me I would not let any of my friends or family use instagram bc they won't protect their users and the won't do anything about people promoting pornagraphic material and don't care to even put a viable help line or email to have these deporable pictures of women taken down. PARENTS, DON'T LET YOUR KIDS BE EXPOSED TO THIS AND BOYCOTT THIS HORRIBLE SOCIAL MEDIA.

Mariana Olguin dob 2/8/81 in Mexico lives in Dallas Texas area. She is known by many for her manipulation of men and her violent nature. She is every dude's worst nightmare. She starts off good and normal. Then she cozies up to your family and friends and starts asking you for money. She starts leaving items at your house, calling constantly, and pressing for marriage. Basically Mariana goes bat$#*! crazy. She throws things across the room when she doesn't get her way. She invited herself on one of my business trips, and threw a coffee maker and it hit me in the head, all because I wouldn't have doggy style sex with her at 2am on a work night. But then my friends call me up and ask why I'm being so mean to Mariana. Here she had turned several good friends against me due to her lies. You won't believe it until it happens to you. And it will. Came across text messages on her phone saying how she basically wants a sugar daddy and mentioned various people I could introduce her to in the Dallas social scene to advance her social status. Mariana crosses everyone eventually. Anyone who is around her can see how she always has drama with other females and can't keep friends very long. Two of her former friends called me and apologized for what they did to me that Mariana put them up to. Her social security number is stolen one as confirmed by police but they can't deport her solely on that. These are the facts folks. Deal with Aida Mariana Olguin Zetina at your own risk.

Suggestions:
- Allow to refine search by newest, popular, most comments, most followed users by genre (singers, actors, politicians, etc).
- Allow to refine search to search for just photos or just videos
- Allow to refine search of videos by a certain length of time (e.g. At least 30 seconds)
- Allow multiple subject searches and ability to refine search criteria (e.g. - you can type in two subjects in search, then refine by stuff like only posts with both subjects, only posts with one subject but do not include any with the other,
- Add these same features and the features already on the app to the website version (you can't even upload a photo by the website version)

I hate companies that force themselves upon us with no recourse. My boss told me to get an Instagram account to use for work, but it linked to the wrong FaceBook account and of course the brilliant nerds did not add an unsubscribe or delete button.
WARNING: It is impossible to delete your Instagram account. There are plenty of offers on line on how to delete, but none of them work, and if Instagram was cool, I wouldn't be spending hours figuring out how to delete it and nobody would have to post methods to do so. You suck! InstaBad! Don't sign up.