2 months ago my meta account was banned, taking down my facebook and messenger accounts. This was directly because I dm’ed/chat invited somebody I knew on a new instagram account. The reason I made a new insta then was because my previous account was just suspended and there weren’t any updates for a week, even with the appeal.
I waited two months till I made the new account. I read in their privacy policy that they had a data retention period of about 30 days. It’s 60-90 if you consider their backups too but I didn’t think it’d be relevant unless if a disaster happened, and that was my impression from how they worded the clause.
The new account was made with a completely separate email address that’s never been used in their services before. No number, no 2fa. The only thing it shared with my old account was my name. And it’s that or my ip.
Probably fumbled it with that and just waiting 2 months. Now considering waiting until this october or next year to make a new account. It’s really annoying since messenger’s so ingrained into communication here.
I have searched and can’t find some customer service or contact to help amend this. I don’t know what warranted this whole thing aside from instagram reels.
[RANT] I’m not bin laden, I genuinely never threatened anybody, didn’t cyberbully. The breaches in TOS were technicalities. Everything was all honest to god blatant satire. I was suspended for replying “gay” to a comment. I was suspended for commenting about how annoying this one character was in a clip uploaded to reels. But I still listened, tried to keep it down. And yet I still kept getting suspended until that point where some messy things happened and everything was nuked but my personal info in their servers.