Losing all interest in large corporate social media…

Recently I had a really unfortunate thing happen with my main Instagram account. Let me preface by mentioning that the situation was my fault because I reacted in haste, that is what these bad actors are hoping for at the end of it. I was sent a message on my main account and that message indicated that I was in risk of losing my account for a list of things I have seen violations for in the past if I used audio on a reel that wasn’t sanctioned, etc. I followed a link because I was waiting for a client and I wanted to resolve this issue. It was a social engineering scam. They took control of my account and I wasn’t able to recover it. My fault, end of the day.

What is ultimately the kick in the proverbial teeth is that I have seen people lose their accounts at the hands of Meta for seemingly inane behaviors and actions. Yet, when I implored my friends to report and block my account, Meta has refused to close that account down, it remains still sending out the exact same message to my friends and followers. This is what makes me harbor a huge amount of disdain for large social media companies like Meta because they really don’t care about the users that are selling their privacy and personal content in return for what can be described as subpar service at best. Meta doesn’t even have any way of getting ahold of them in the event of a real concern. Not even a “customerservice@meta.com” or something of the sort.

As such, I will probably not be posting much on Instagram in the coming years. I would rather pay for this domain and webpage so I have full control of the content displayed over having to be held hostage by a social media company data mining you and using your images for their AI and algorithms to sell ad directed products.

If you want to see what I am doing with my camera, this will be the place to see it moving forward.