Welp, 3rd time. IG decided to delete my account. Everyone’s first question is why? Welp the answer is: your guess is as good as mine! No notification of a photo taken down. No explanation why my account was terminated other than to say it violated Terms of Service (TOS). So for all I know there’s someone out there claiming to be me and IG is siding with them; as impersonation is a violation of TOS.
Wait, I should contact IG support, NO SUCH FUCKING THING. They make no effort to support the millions of follows that supper them. IG seems to forget its their users that keep them alive; not the other way around. Most infuriating of all is that IG has clearly adopted a policy of favoritism. Allow me to explain. This photo of mine was deleted a few weeks ago, I posted about it previously (side note it has some 35k notes on IG so clearly people connect with it).
This could be shown on prime time TV as no genitalia or nipples are showing. You can’t see anymore here than you could in most bathing suits. Actually check that. If she were wearing a thong and turned you’d see more. But you could say “well that IGs version of nudity thats there bar and so thats their choice.” Sure I could actually accept that if that were consistent, except:
Now don’t get me wrong. Im not saying IG should take these down. These shots are both awesome, and we are all adults and should be able to be ok with these. What Im saying is that Instagram favorites the celebrities that bring it buzz and keep them alive while deleting the rest of the IG community for posting anything on par. Now I think highly of myself but I can’t image in lil ol me is getting flagged more that Miley. I mean come on here I bet there are teams of people flagging her all day every day. So why delete my account and not Miley’s?
All in all what that means is that if you’re not famous you get to fall in line and be subject to their no questions, no explanations, go fuck yourself deletion policy. If you’re a celebrity or a clothing company, or both:
..nipples are Aye OK! (As they should be).
What I feel like IG is telling their user base is unless you can make IG money, bring them celebrity, or kiss their ass, and you have any interest in pushing the puritanical envelop that IG has social backed stepped into, IG can, and will, delete you.
Fairness, fuck it.
Consistency, double fuck that!
Come what may Instagram, you guys conduct yourself in a shameful manor. Even the most disliked US company AT&T answers their phone. You guys actively deactivated your customer service page and stop responding on your customer service Twitter.
I realize this may fall on deaf ear, and I realize that IG has demonstrated that unless you do something for them they don’t give a fuck about you. But, I would argue that social network thrive soley on their content. If you sterilize the content you neuter the social network. We don’t need another Facebook.
At least the one thing both Instagram and I can agree upon is that they will clearly keep deleting my accounts, and I will keep making new ones.
For those of you that are interested in my new IG account head over to @derekwoodsphotography. Stop on by and say hello.
Derek Woods Photography 