Got my Instagram finally back after 9 months and didn’t notice for a whole nother one
I like a lot of people it seems randomly got my account disabled by meta dumb ai falsely stating I didn’t follow community standards regarding that specific guideline. Besides just being a crazy accusation I thought it was so crazy because other they a birthday post once a year and my graduation photos I really didn’t use my instagram all that much, the last time I used it was just to congratulate my cousin on her engagement so needless to say I was pissed. I spent the next couple of weeks emailing attorneys generals and requesting help on Meta forms online I could find before giving up around middle to late January. Eventually the thought of all the connections I had on there I decided in like very late January to look into ways to get my account back. Eventually my search took me to LegalShield, not gonna lie I highkey thought I was getting scammed 😭 it took until March for the law firm I was set up with to even create and send out my letter. By maybe like March 8 I got a email that meta received my letter, but my lawyer made sure to tell me that even though they responded there’s no guarantee it would result in anything and if I was to every hear something it’d be in the next 4ish weeks. By that point the lawyer did all they could and it was kinda a waiting game. Eventful around May or early June I cancelled my LegalShield account (incredibly annoying and hard process made me further thing the whole thing was just a scam) and gave up any hope completely. By early July I gave in and made a new instagram on my iPad just because I honestly felt so disconnected from so many people that knew me had like 1000+ less followers but it was nice to see what a few people had been up to since I was gone, though obviously it wasn’t the same as having instagram on your phone (I don’t walk around with my iPad everywhere) that was basically my status quo till end of September when I was searching my email for job related content and say an email from instagram that essentially said “look what you’re friend ____ posted…” I had an old art ig with the same email that hadn’t been deleted that I had got emails from time to time on there so I just assumed it was from that until I read the name and saw the picture of my old disabled account. I grabbed my iPad and searched my name on there and sure enough my account was back and I didn’t even notice. I eventually dugged through my email to learn my account has been back since 9/11 even my old LegalShield lawyer just got an email from meta regarding it today so I’m assuming that it was the lawyer thing that finally got it back. I happy to have my account back but I still quite annoyed for not having my account for nearly a year when I didn’t do anything at all. Hopefully something in the post can help someone else or just give them a little bit of hope if they are dealing with something similar right now.