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<blockquote data-quote="Marko :)" data-source="post: 1123939" data-attributes="member: 39702">I registered to Instagram once just to see what&#039;s the fuss about (as pretty much all my friends and acquaintances have it). So... just finished the registration process and entered the homepage which recommended me to follow some profiles. It didn&#039;t take five seconds before I was greeted with an error message asking me to refresh the page. After refresh, I immediately got the message my account was suspended for violating terms of use and asked me to verify my profile. Sure... it happens.First asked me for my e-mail address (reasonable), my phone number (reasonable, though I didn&#039;t give it; instead used those online SMS verification sites), but when it asked for my photo, photo of ID and short video this is where they crossed the line and where they lost me as a user forever.And I wasn&#039;t the only one. My colleague from work did the same; she never had Instagram, registered to follow her friends and was immediately suspended. She lost the desire to join the social network as she felt like she was opening a bank account and not a social media one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marko :), post: 1123939, member: 39702"] I registered to Instagram once just to see what's the fuss about (as pretty much all my friends and acquaintances have it). So... just finished the registration process and entered the homepage which recommended me to follow some profiles. It didn't take five seconds before I was greeted with an error message asking me to refresh the page. After refresh, I immediately got the message my account was suspended for violating terms of use and asked me to verify my profile. Sure... it happens. First asked me for my e-mail address (reasonable), my phone number (reasonable, though I didn't give it; instead used those online SMS verification sites), but when it asked for my photo, photo of ID and short video this is where they crossed the line and where they lost me as a user forever. And I wasn't the only one. My colleague from work did the same; she never had Instagram, registered to follow her friends and was immediately suspended. She lost the desire to join the social network as she felt like she was opening a bank account and not a social media one. [/QUOTE]

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