Instagram takes safety seriously. If someone created an Instagram account pretending to be you, you can report it to us. Make sure to provide all the requested info, including a photo of your government-issued ID.
Impersonation Accounts
If you have an Instagram account, you can report it to us from within the app, or by filling out this form. If you don't have an Instagram account, please fill out this form.
We only respond to reports sent to us from the person who's being impersonated or a representative of the person who's being impersonated (example: a parent). If someone you know is being impersonated, please encourage that person to report it.
Note: If you're having trouble uploading a photo of your ID from a mobile phone, please try submitting this form from a computer.
Only the person who's being impersonated can file a report, but you can:
Keep in mind that if the impostor account is impersonating someone you're authorized to represent (example: your child), you can report the account using this form.
If someone is pretending to be you on Instagram, you can report the account with this form.
US federal law doesn't allow private parties to obtain account content (example: comments, photos and so on) from providers like Instagram.
Instagram may provide reasonably available basic subscriber information (not content), if any, only where the requested information is indispensable to a case and not within a party’s possession upon personal service of a valid subpoena or court order and after notice to affected account holders.
Your subpoena or Court order must be directed to the entity mentioned in the terms of service that are applicable to your use of the Instagram service (i.e. Facebook Ireland or Facebook, Inc., depending on where you are domiciled domiciled meaning if serving the subpoena on Facebook, Inc., the subpoena must be a valid federal, California or California domesticated subpoena, addressed to and served on Facebook, Inc. If serving Facebook Ireland Limited, the subpoena or court order must be addressed to and served on Facebook Ireland Limited.”)
Those seeking non-content information must specifically identify the account at issue by providing the Instagram username, profile URL and relevant date. We can't identify accounts without this information. Usernames and/or profile URLs may be found in the uniform resource locator available in a browser displaying the account in question. For example, in the URL https://help.instagram.com/abc, “abc” is the username.
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If a username you want is being used by someone else, you can choose an available version of the username. You can add periods, numbers, underscores or abbreviations to help you come up with a username that's not already claimed.
To change your username, you can edit your profile.
Fake Instagram accounts, often referred to as “finstas” or “spam accounts”, have become the norm for many teens – but their reasoning for creating these is not as sinister as you think.
I’ve spoken with 50 Australian families – including 118 children aged 1-18 – about technology use, and am currently conducting a follow-up qualitative investigation with a further 25 teens about their social media use. The data for both studies will be published this year.
My investigations show that teens’ use of social media is constantly shifting in new ways in response to changes to social media platforms, the teen’s age and social context. Social media continues to be a significant aspect of adolescence; the right information and guidance will ensure that use is positive and healthy.
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Teens love Instagram
Among my sample, teens often have access to multiple devices that usually include a mobile phone and a laptop. They typically dedicate their laptop use to school work, and their mobile phone use for all other parts of their life – such as socialising, connecting with family, and following interests. Teenagers also use their phones for some aspects of school learning, including accessing school resources, information and connecting with class peers.
Instagram is the most popular social media platform for teens: data from the United States shows that about 76% of this age group use it regularly. My current research shows that on any given day, a teen accesses Instagram around 10-30 times. They check likes, comments, share stories, view their friends’ latest posts, and follow their interests.
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A distinctive trend in Instagram use, something that can go under the radar, is that teens increasingly have more than one account. Teens will often have a “rinsta” – a real Instagram account – and a “finsta”: a fake or second account.
The rise of the finstas (sometimes referred to as “privates” by teens) began in 2017 when for the first time, Instagram allowed users to create and switch between multiple accounts. Unlike other social media platforms such as Facebook, which states “it’s against Facebook Community Standards to maintain more than one personal account”, Instagram has embraced multiple accounts. Since that time teens have also embraced them, with ownership of numerous “alternate” accounts now common for this age group.
Teens do not typically set up finstas in their own name, but instead use a fake name or the name of an entity such as their favourite character. The idea is that the accounts cannot be traced back to them.
Three ways teens use fake Instagram accounts
Adults may be inclined to assume that finstas are created by teens to hide scandalous and/or overtly sexual behaviour. However, that’s not necessarily the case. Growing up in the social media era, members of this age group are acutely aware of the pressures on them to create and maintain the picture-perfect online profile. Finstas are often strategically used by teens to relieve this pressure.
Private, less visible accounts allow teens the opportunity to move away from the carefully cultivated, public persona on their real Instagram account – and present a rawer, “this-is-the-real-me” personality to a smaller group of closer friends.
The friends that teens select for each of their finsta accounts depends on the type of content they want to post on there.
There are at least three reasons why teens create finsta accounts:
1. For their real friends
Teens commonly create finstas as a space to show their silly or more vulnerable side with close friends, without being judged by others. It is not uncommon for teens to have thousands of Instagram followers (many of whom they don’t know personally), and the potential for criticism on such accounts is rife.
A finsta account however may have less than 30 of their close friends. In my own study of teen use of social media, 17-year-old Tommy stated he used his finsta account to post funny pictures just for his friends. He said he would never post those pictures on his real Instagram because he wouldn’t want everyone to see how goofy he can be.
2. To enjoy private interests
Some teens use finsta accounts to privately enjoy interests they feel others may judge them by, or bully them about. For example, a teen boy may be an avid fan of a TV series that primarily has a female fan base. Seether discography 320kbps uptobox. The teen may use his finsta account to share his interest with like-minded fans, he may even set it up to give the impression that it is a girl’s account. With this purpose, teens can feel free to enjoy their interest, or try new ones, without being worried that someone will mock them.
3. To boost their own popularity
Teens may also use finstas as a way of boosting their real Instagram accounts, for example using them to likes posts or add flattering comments as is seen with YouTube activity.
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Implications for teens
A benefit of finstas is that they allow the focus of teen’s social media use to shift in a positive way. They can move away from posting perfect photos, and garnering high likes and quick compliments, to a focus on presenting themselves and their ideas in a less edited and more authentic way.
Their use of these accounts can potentially give teens more control over their digital identity, protecting themselves from users viewing and possibly misinterpreting their posts.
It also allows teens to get more perspective on what their friends are doing, especially after combining the information from their “official” accounts and their more authentic finstas.
On the flipside, however, these accounts usually engage with a closed circle of friends, so inappropriate content – such as sexual or highly intimate remarks and posts – can (and does) get posted.
Semi-anonymous and closed-platform posts also bring the potential for bullying, sexting, revenge posting, illegal activity and amplified drama that can easily spill over from finsta into other social media accounts and real life.
Parent-child conversations
Conversations with teens about social media are always important and should be a regular part of digital life.
As finstas are generally set to private mode, teens may feel protected – that what they post is private. However, it’s important to remember that the same rules apply to finstas as to all social media: there is no way to monitor who physically sees a post.
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A private setting does not protect you from a screenshot being taken of the post and distributed – nor does it stop someone that you’re not “friends” with physically looking at content on your account, perhaps on another persons’ phone.
Additionally, you are always trackable online somehow. Even if you are using an alternate username, a screenshot of the post may still be tied to your name in a Google search result.
Whether real or fake accounts, the message to teens about social media should consistently focus on always being in control of your own reputation, sharing things online that reflect the real you, and thinking of the long-term implications of posts. Real or fake accounts – the rules stay the same.
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Okay, so.. before I got the recent update everything was fine. Then I get the stupid update and now my keyboard doesn't work. The keyboard was fine before I got the update. I don't mean to sound rude or anything, I'm just asking if this can possibly be fixed soon? Thank you for your time and patience! I also have a few suggestions if that's okay.. on Facebook it'd be awesome if I could use a tag on it, like when you're tagging someone it'll turn blue.. and with the replies on twitter and Instagram, if you could make them indent sort of, like how it is in the real apps. Besides that I LOVE THIS APP! I would definitely recommend this app to anyone who likes to use fake messages for their stories, of fake tweets and posts. I would DEFINITELY GET THIS APP! ✌️?
Oh, I hate to bother you with this.. But could we also have the choice of whether or not we want to make a group chat or regular chat in the message section? I hope that's not too much ? thank you for reading this if you do ? it means a lot. It’s good but..
Hello! I really enjoy this app and I think it works really well besides a few problems. I frequently use the twitter section and though I went through the tutorial I was still a little confused on how to use it until a while back. I’m not sure if this is an option but is there a way to edit the accounts? I had to recreate them since I couldn’t found out how. Also it took a while to find out how to make tweets appear on profiles but I was just a little dumb. Whenever you go to someone’s profile there’s and option on the top write that lets you write a tweet. I tried to use it many times to make tweets appear on the profile but it never worked. I ended up going to the home page of twitter and making the tweets there. Overall it’s a decent app and it gets what I want done :)
Developer Response,
Thanks for your review.
Just swipe the created post, comment, message etc to the left and can easily edit it. When you go to someone's profile, posts only show for the users they've been assigned to. Please visit http://support.ashleyrichards.co.uk for more info. iMessage Group Chat Avatars aren’t Centered!!!
iMessages Group chat looks weird on bigger iPhones like 6s plus, 7plus, 8plus. Can’t put more than 3 users without group chat looking weird & leaning more towards left of screen. The part where the user icons first come in is too far over to the left. Should be more near the ⓘ symbol to the far right. That way 5 or 6 avatars can show properly in group chat. Otherwise it looks weird to use more than 3 people in group chat iMessages. It used to look more realistic when you could only add up to 8 users in iMessage groups. After the update to 12 users in iMessage group it started looking weird and too moved over to the left of the screen near the < icon on the far left. Please fix this bug because it now looks super fake. Also when you name the group chat it’s too far to the left as well near the < sign on the far left. Doesn’t look right to make the group iMessage at all. It’s disappointing because it used to look more realistic. Please fix this bug ASAP or at least in the next update.
Thank you!! xx Developer Response,
Thanks for your review.
I will look into this for the next update. Information
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