How long before they start making posts and adding likes in your name?
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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This is so fucked up. Why anyone would use meta now is beyond me
Trump and his cronies are gonna try and use social media like Hitler used the radio. He want his voice in the homes of every ~~German~~ American.
Yep. If you control the biggest source(s) of information, then people eventually will only know what you want them to know.
False! Everyone can unfollow. There's just a few more steps to delete your account. I was able to do it without issue.
Good thing i don't have an account on there. I do have a facebook account and checked to see if i I was set follow their pages and Im not. Might have something to so with not following any pages or even really logging in but a fee times a year when my wife pesters about checking my notifications or certain posts from family members
Worth noting that the follow option on your account likely isn’t accurate. That’s a large part of the complaints; I didn’t follow the potus or vp accounts when looking at it on my own page, but my friend saw that I was following them via the “followed by [friend’s name] and [#] other friends” option. Like when you tap that, it allows you to see which of your mutual friends follow the account. And I showed up on that list. On my own account page, it didn’t show that I was following them. The button said “Follow” so I couldn’t unfollow them.
Here is the vp page from my perspective. Notice that I’m not following it, and therefore can’t unfollow it:
Now here’s my friend’s “your mutual friends follow this account” list, which shows me as a follower:
I had to restrict the vp account, which then updated the “Follow” button into an “unfollow” button. But the fact that I had to restrict the account before I was allowed to unfollow it (because I was being forced to shadow-follow the account) is what people have issues with.
Sounds like a good reason to abandon instagram.
If anyone still needs a reason, they’re probably there to stay.
“Some people…” most people I know have been forced to follow POTUS or VP and cannot unfollow. Finally got my wife to delete her accounts
Just kill the account then
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