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Looking For “Love” In All The Wrong Places
dear platforms — please do a better job of ridding us of scammers
I have been on social media for a long time and have an account on almost every platform. I enjoy the contacts that I have — both friends and business contacts — and I guess I always will — but for now I'm sort of leaving Instagram aside for the following reasons…
Below are some things I have noticed about the over 4000 persons who have pretty recently followed me on Instagram. When I started my account I followed a few friends and their business accounts and they followed me. I think the numbers there are about 200 give or take but now I have over 4100 followers [and counting] who are fake.
It was getting time consuming to keep meandering through them each time to see if they were actually real people so I decided there must be a way to scan these quickly and tell who is real and who is a bot or a scammer.
Below are some of the things that I have noticed, as have many others. I used to get bots and fake accounts asking to befriend me on Facebook and I even had too many of these bots pop up here on Medium — but both of these places did a pretty good job of cleaning them out. Facebook owns Instagram but it has yet to start cleaning out the bots.
