Sven Solitude
Well-Known Member
Always trying my best to be positive, so take it with humor what I say now. :'D
So, there is this really weird website called "Instagram". Never planned to make an account there, but some lovely people are there and I want to support them. <3 At first it was possible to look at images without an account, just the way it should be. I was happily scrolling down, until a new window popped up, trying to force me to create an account. "Not with me!", I said, and refreshed the site, HA! But those sneaky little rats... (Not the cute furry ones.) Now, when I clicked on images, it would always show me the account creation window. As a smart and logical person, it was obvious it had to be an error, right? When you click on a thumbnail of an image, it should show the actual image in all its glory. It's common sense. But I refreshed like crazy and it wouldn't work anymore. DeviantArt and Fur Affinity must be far ahead of its time, that they let me actually look at art and images. I took it as granted, so it was my mistake. I'm the one at fault here, that's what I realized. Instagram is a journey of self-reflection. I refreshed so many times, that Instagram would now immediately show me the account creation window as soon as I visit the page, the site lost its patience with me and wouldn't even treat me the little thumbnails anymore.
After my self-reflection, I decided to create an actual account, yes. It requires only an email address, a full name and a user name. I'm fine with that, at least they don't ask for my private phone number or similar! Since they didn't ask for a real full name, I just made one up. Always protect your data!
Something really strange happened after the creation. They detected strange behaviour or something of the sort and blocked me immediately from accessing the site. Okay, weird. I don't know what could have been so strange. It was always Instagram who was strange, not me. I only want to look at images. But then I felt something really weird in my face that felt like a fist. They asked for my phone number. That was so sudden and unexpected. Since I didn't feel like yet another self-reflection, I just grabbed my phone and put in my number. They said they sent me a code, but...I never received one.
Ugh...
Okay, I checked my phone number again and again, tried to let them resend the code to me. Nothing worked, even though I did everything right.
After some research I discovered that I'm not the only one with those struggles. At least! No need to take it personally anymore. It was recommended to use a fake online phone number. And it immediately worked! Okay! I mean...I don't mind. Whatever makes them happy, I guess.
But the strangeness doesn't end here! I didn't receive a message from Instagram... No, it was a message from Facebook!!! Facebook gave me the code! Again: they had to ask Facebook to send me the code. And the code didn't even work! 3 numbers, space, 3 numbers. I typed it in correctly. After doing some math, I decided to just use the numbers without the space and it worked.
*sigh*
And now... Now I have to wait up to 24 hours until my account gets (hopefully!) activated. They will check my informations. I don't see why it shouldn't work, because I only did what they asked for. And tomorrow I can finally look at that one cute little drawing of a puppy.
If I don't leave another message here, assume my account got activated and that I live happily ever after.
So, there is this really weird website called "Instagram". Never planned to make an account there, but some lovely people are there and I want to support them. <3 At first it was possible to look at images without an account, just the way it should be. I was happily scrolling down, until a new window popped up, trying to force me to create an account. "Not with me!", I said, and refreshed the site, HA! But those sneaky little rats... (Not the cute furry ones.) Now, when I clicked on images, it would always show me the account creation window. As a smart and logical person, it was obvious it had to be an error, right? When you click on a thumbnail of an image, it should show the actual image in all its glory. It's common sense. But I refreshed like crazy and it wouldn't work anymore. DeviantArt and Fur Affinity must be far ahead of its time, that they let me actually look at art and images. I took it as granted, so it was my mistake. I'm the one at fault here, that's what I realized. Instagram is a journey of self-reflection. I refreshed so many times, that Instagram would now immediately show me the account creation window as soon as I visit the page, the site lost its patience with me and wouldn't even treat me the little thumbnails anymore.
After my self-reflection, I decided to create an actual account, yes. It requires only an email address, a full name and a user name. I'm fine with that, at least they don't ask for my private phone number or similar! Since they didn't ask for a real full name, I just made one up. Always protect your data!
Something really strange happened after the creation. They detected strange behaviour or something of the sort and blocked me immediately from accessing the site. Okay, weird. I don't know what could have been so strange. It was always Instagram who was strange, not me. I only want to look at images. But then I felt something really weird in my face that felt like a fist. They asked for my phone number. That was so sudden and unexpected. Since I didn't feel like yet another self-reflection, I just grabbed my phone and put in my number. They said they sent me a code, but...I never received one.
Ugh...
Okay, I checked my phone number again and again, tried to let them resend the code to me. Nothing worked, even though I did everything right.
After some research I discovered that I'm not the only one with those struggles. At least! No need to take it personally anymore. It was recommended to use a fake online phone number. And it immediately worked! Okay! I mean...I don't mind. Whatever makes them happy, I guess.
But the strangeness doesn't end here! I didn't receive a message from Instagram... No, it was a message from Facebook!!! Facebook gave me the code! Again: they had to ask Facebook to send me the code. And the code didn't even work! 3 numbers, space, 3 numbers. I typed it in correctly. After doing some math, I decided to just use the numbers without the space and it worked.
*sigh*
And now... Now I have to wait up to 24 hours until my account gets (hopefully!) activated. They will check my informations. I don't see why it shouldn't work, because I only did what they asked for. And tomorrow I can finally look at that one cute little drawing of a puppy.
If I don't leave another message here, assume my account got activated and that I live happily ever after.