How to make an instagram account that friends can't see, without being private
11-07-2017, 11:03 PM
Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but here it goes:
I'm trying to make an instagram account as a way to close girls - the problem is that I don't want it to be seen by anyone I know. The reason is just that I don't really want people from the past or whatever digging into my social life, I intend to put all kinds of different pictures up there and I'd just prefer to keep my insta as private from them as possible. Counterintuitively, I don't want to have to make this account private, because I'd like to amass followers for the social value (just not followers that I know, if that makes any sense). If old friends stumble upon me by accident, fine, but I don't want instagram to automatically suggest me to them.
The problem that I'm facing is that no matter how hard I try, I can't fucking get instagram to stop suggesting people I know - I'm assuming that if it knows to suggest them for me, then it's suggesting me to them as well. I logged out of facebook, uninstalled it, cleared my instagram history, deleted instagram and reinstalled it, made a brand new email account, and denied instagram access to my contacts and facebook every time. I did this twice with two different instagram accounts and it still somehow found friends to add - it's actually creepy.
How is it even getting this information - is it pulling my phone number from the device? Is it because my account names were similar to other ones I used? I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this before and can help me to get around it.
I'm trying to make an instagram account as a way to close girls - the problem is that I don't want it to be seen by anyone I know. The reason is just that I don't really want people from the past or whatever digging into my social life, I intend to put all kinds of different pictures up there and I'd just prefer to keep my insta as private from them as possible. Counterintuitively, I don't want to have to make this account private, because I'd like to amass followers for the social value (just not followers that I know, if that makes any sense). If old friends stumble upon me by accident, fine, but I don't want instagram to automatically suggest me to them.
The problem that I'm facing is that no matter how hard I try, I can't fucking get instagram to stop suggesting people I know - I'm assuming that if it knows to suggest them for me, then it's suggesting me to them as well. I logged out of facebook, uninstalled it, cleared my instagram history, deleted instagram and reinstalled it, made a brand new email account, and denied instagram access to my contacts and facebook every time. I did this twice with two different instagram accounts and it still somehow found friends to add - it's actually creepy.
How is it even getting this information - is it pulling my phone number from the device? Is it because my account names were similar to other ones I used? I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this before and can help me to get around it.