Beware of a flaw in Instagram...
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On instagram, you can have a public or private account.
If public, anybody can follow you.
If private, only people who are approved by the account holder can follow that person and see their messages.HOWEVER: If someone has a public account with followers, and then changes their account to private, no new people can follow
that account unless approved... BUT all existing followers can still see the account as though they were approved, but were NOT!I know someone who had a public account, which had his father and various other people he knew following him. He then switched his account to PRIVATE - thinking that only people he approved can see his comments - which in this case, he would not want certain people to see - which is why he made his account private. BUT.. he does not realize that his pre-private followers such as his daddy can still see his posts! oh my!
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This has been a known issue for quite some time.
The official response is that it's up to the account holder to remove people that already follow them if they don't want them to continue to follow them when the account goes private.
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@raphjd you would think that a company like Meta (facebook, instagram, threads, etc) that has holdings of $1.21 trillion (1,210 billion or 1,210,000 million or $1,210,000,000,000 would be able to afford a few programmers to fix their shitty software.
