How to Lose Your Instagram Account in 10 Seconds

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Имаше едно филмче How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days… Е, моята история е за това как изгубих моят Instagram акаунт за броени секунди. Накратко:

Купих си нов смартфон, инсталирах си Instagram, заедно с още десетки приложения. Логнах се, получих потвърждение по мейл, кликнах линка…

О, не!!! Кликнах линка…

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А се мислех за опитен потребител… Едва след като го щракнах видях, че пишело „If this is not your account you can remove your email…“

Никакъв въпрос „Are you sure“, директно ми махна мейла и никаква възможност за възстановяване. Три месеца писане със support и в крайна сметка нищо:

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„If you’ve forgotten your password and lost access to your email account, we’re unable to release the Instagram account to you. This includes accounts registered with mistyped email addresses.

We understand this can be frustrating, but this policy is meant to make sure Instagram accounts don’t fall into the wrong hands.“

Ето защо няма да ползвам Instagram повече. Още се чудя как е възможно да имаш една от най-големите социални мрежи и да си направиш процеса така, че да е възможно да изгубиш цял потребителски акаунт с един-единствен click, при това на мейл като този горе…

Ето ви чудесен пример за лошо usability, лошо тестване и отвратителен UX. И понеже вярвам, че трябва да я има и на английски…

ENGLISH:

There was a movie title How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days… Well, here is my story about how I lost my Instagram account in less than 10 seconds. In short, I bought a new smartphone, installed Instagram along with dozens of other applications. Started the app, login, confirmation email, click on the link …

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Oh, no, I clicked on the link… And I thought of myself as of an experienced user.

Soon after I clicked it and I got message that my email address is removed from my account name, I saw that the link actually read „If this is not your account you can remove your email …“

No questions „Are you sure?“, it directly removed the email from my account and any possibility of recovery. Three months writing to their support lead to ultimately nothing:

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„If you’ve forgotten your password and lost access to your email account, we’re unable to release the Instagram account to you. This includes accounts registered with mistyped email addresses.

We understand this can be frustrating, but this policy is meant to make sure Instagram accounts don’t fall into the wrong hands.“

So here is a reason why I am not using Instagram anymore. I still wonder how it is possible to have one of the largest social networks in the world and to make the process so dumb that it is possible to lose your entire user account with a single click, from a notification mail like the one on the picture above…

So, here it is – a great example of bad usability, bad testing and disgusting UX!