Instagram 12+

This app has made me aware of many things & capable of many things! We are able to communicate with who we appreciate or who we are close to, share to be felt, like to express what we love, post to be seen/be recognized & received, follow because there are mutual interests or family/friends, spread emotions with no filter sadness, happiness, disappointment, neutrality (in love & war) and most commonly, anger! We are able to be friend or foe or none, even in opinion - disagree or agree or none, maybe both! The ability to hate or love! Emotions are so raw & honest, that they will make you feel - especially in the reels! There, it has made me realize too that I may not be the smartest but I’m definitely not the stupidest, but I am just one person of these many users, oh how smart we are in our own ways it’s truly astonishing! Being unwilling to learn is very detrimental to the growth of our self reflection, no matter where we are or who we are, you can be assured to learn things here especially about people’s character, whether it benefits you or the opposite. Coming into this app you have to remember no one can make YOU be you, you are YOUER than you, that’s what YOU choose so don’t choose to be like them! Whether your experience is dissatisfying, relieving or golden, it all counts because all days are not the same, there will be some that make you feel love & some even hate. 😇🤍

I WOULD GIVE ZERO STARS IF POSSIBLE

this app has gotten worse from a user experience for the past 3 years. the main two ill focus on is the comment system and the content, the comment system has slowly been more and more restrictive over the years and is at its worse now. with almost EVERY comment i make it gets taken down for spam without the ability to appeal the decision. the system has clearly been taken over by AI that flags every post from “repeat offenders” yet allows clearly racist comments, content and hatred. going into to content the recommended reels are ALWAYS sexual with this recent update no matter what my explore page looks like and after clicking not interested those reels stay the same. this same system pushes sexual content of both adult and minors without any repercussions, many times my explore has forced these pages of minors in swim suits to the front page, blocking multiple accounts reporting the pages and clicking not interested works but, the fact the system decides whenever it wants to force feed you content that very clearly goes against the terms is weird. the unclear and vague removals of comments has made the app less fun as a user.

I have had troubles with the music feature on instagram for MONTHS now. I am not able to use any music other than the few automatically shown ones that are there when I click the option, and all the songs are in some foreign language or they're instrumentals of some sort. I am not able to search for any song whatsoever as it will just tell me there are no results every time. A couple months ago, i was still at least able to save a song if someone sent it to me, then go to saved music, and use it through that. But now the problem has worsened and I am not even able to save any music nor see/use any of the music i had saved before this was an issue. I have reported this problem to instagram multiple times over the course of about 5 or 6 months and they have yet to respond in any sort of way, let alone fix the problem. I know i'm not the only one dealing with this as i've seen in reviews, as well as on other social medias such as twitter, that there have been a good amount of other people dealing with the same issues. This problem has been aggravating and upsetting, and the fact that i and many others have tried to reach instagram to fix this issue, yet have not even been addressed, only adds to those emotions. The music was one of, if not THE most used feature for me on instagram. I have tried multiple methods on my own to resolve this issue but nothing has worked. Hoping instagram can get to the bottom of this sooner rather than later.