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Instagram now requires birthday
It's not optional but a requirement, even for sites for businesses and pets...
I only use Instagram for my businesses for SEO purposes and traffic generation and I don't want to share birthday info with them. Now obviously, I could just enter a random birthday, but I am willing to bet that in the future they will try to verify this information which If you can't prove you'll lose access to your account. Also, I have to keep track of what birthday I put where for which business... It's ridiculous how much information meta wants from you to sell to companies.
Ok, I'll stop my rant now
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If you have a business or venture of some sort and are using Instagram solely for this purpose, just put in the date of incorporation. If this causes problems later, you always have a way out, although FB might not be amused at this explanation.
I suspect that legally this is the best route, as a corporation is technically an "individual" in most countries.
However, you will still have to lie about the year of incorporation as I think you need to be over 13 to use FB.
What about If it's for a site or forum? Do I put the date the site was created, the date of the first post or entry, the date the domain was created? Do I put the like you said the date of incorporation of the business I use for my sites? It's so darn confusing! I put so much work on these instagram account to generate interest for my sites, and it works, but this is just crazy...
It is, but what If I have an LLC?
please unfriend me on FB if you use Instagram for business .
I don't use FB, never have.
It has said on their when asking for a birthday. If a company just put your birthday.
My guess is just wanting to make sure the actual person posting is of age.
Are you sure the birthday requirement isn't for keeping kids away? I mean instagram has alot of adult related photos after all.
It might be for now. But I know of many sites that started of like that, and then one day you forget the password, and boom, the birthday answer isn't good enough, they ask you for verification and proof of it.
Want an example? ebay. I have been with them for over 20 years (I'm starting to show my age now ). I don't remember what I had put back then for my birthday, as I didn't take the question seriously and thought it's none of their business.
Well, 20 years later and they have made changes including breaking from their reliance on paypal as their main money processing system. They asked for my ID for verification and I obliged. Well guess what? They made a huge deal about the birthday being different that I had to send them 2 extra documents to prove that I am me while in the mean time I was locked out of my account. Over 2 decades later and a 100% positive feedback throughout all those years...
Who's to say Meta wont do the same?
What date do you think Starbucks used? Or McDonald’s?
Birthday is: 12/70/01
Easy to remember.
Address is "localhost"
January 1st, 1970
Good decision... its ruining kids' life... Many hyenas are active on Instagram to trap minor girls...
what if i refuse to be identified by my birthdate, like my gender?
Don’t use Instagram?
If minor girls are getting trapped in Instagram, that's a parent fail.
Have my form birthday: Jan 1, 1980.
Or use Feb 29 in a non Leap Year.
I heard that Genderless is for baby of alien & human.
People mistook it for LGBTQ+
Lay off the crack pipe.
Instagram has an age limit, and they are trying to make it a safer community for kids.
You can read about it here:
https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/continuing-to-make-instagram-safer-for-the-youngest-members-of-our-community
Dosen’t work if the business isn’t very old.
Chappell really needs to spin that character off into his own movie series.
That would be awesome, but I doubt he will.