Instagram 12+

Recently, Instagram has decided to copy half of tik tok’s features - this includes their ‘reels’, which are just incredibly annoying and out of sync with the rest of the app. I preferred instagram’s old saving method where you could hold down the save option icon and add a video to multiple save section folders, OVER the new way of saving, which is to press the three dots at the top of the video and select save and THEN add to a collection, meaning you can only add the video to one collection, unless you want to spend the time going all the way to the other collections you wanted the post in and going into its settings and adding the post manually. Tik tok actually has (imo) a worse saving system anyways, so Instagram copying it is a very strange and annoying move. Also, Instagram is forcing every video posted to be a reel, unless of-course it’s a multiple media post - which in turn people often feel forced to post, instead of a one picture/video post, as to avoid the post being a reel. This can be annoying in itself as Instagram doesn’t show the amount of views on a multi image/video post, only the amount of likes. Instagram, please stop trying to copy tik tok and listen to what your users actually want. It’s not reels.

So, I noticed that instagram’s community is terribly toxic and problematic all the time. People are always rude to each other and are always starting arguments in comments over the most stupidest things. The service is absolutely terrible! When you try to report someone who has been cyber bullying you or your friend, Instagram comes up with this lame excuse to not take that account down because of ‘too many reports’ of that account which just sounds lazy to me. Another thing, Instagram doesn’t take posts down that goes to Community guidelines but when it comes to my posts they do take it down even though it doesn’t even go towards the community guidelines? And the algorithm is absolutely terrible! Please fix this app, I’ve used it for 3 years now and saying this with experience, the app is extremely toxic whatsoever. It doesn’t even let you comment the word ‘gay’ as a joke because that word goes to the community guidelines which is homophobic and unbelievable. Not only that, you literally banned me from using the ‘add yours’ stickers and the option to react to messages and reply to them. Please fix this! My Instagram is up to date and it still does not work!

It also does not let me use the most recent updates features either. This app is not fair. I do not recommend downloading if you don’t want your mental health messed up. My mental health has been so messed up because of INSTAGRAM! This app is a complete joke and it’s fake as anything.

I always enjoyed using Instagram, for me it was a good platform to express my creativity until Instagram became bias and stopped giving everyone the same user experience. On my account, both personal and business I’m not able to edit my reels anymore, rearrange clips. I had this option for maybe a month and then it miraculously disappeared. I got excited thinking that’s a new feature I was always missing until I found out that some users / accounts were able to do that all along. It’s not giving every user equal opportunities so to speak. I don’t mind it becoming more of a video platform but the problem is that I can’t even edit my clips. I feel very limited and I think it’s just discrimination. Perhaps based on how many followers you have and etc. Why some users are able to have additional options and others don’t? It’s not a bug, or a phone and etc. I’ve updated my app, installed and uninstalled it, nothing’s changed. It all started with this whole ‘likes’ experiment. Some accounts were able to see likes some not and etc. Now they’re experimenting on people with reels. It’s beyond disappointing. If you want people to keep using it, more engagement then give everyone same tools. Otherwise everyone will move on to different apps and Instagram will be left with a limited amount of users and demographics.