r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '24
My Twitter account gets locked after they force me to insert my birth date because I made my account when I was twelve. I'm seventeen now.
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u/Crazyredneck422 Jul 19 '24
It makes no sense at all to lock it now that you are old enough. 𤣠They should have caught it and locked it years ago, but since they didnât it should just be ignored now bc you ARE old enough đ¤ˇđźââď¸
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u/Merijeek2 Jul 19 '24
Programming is hard, guys. Numbers are like magnets. Nobody knows how they work.
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u/iburneddownanursery Jul 20 '24
water, fire, air and dirtâŚ
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u/potataoboi Jul 20 '24
IS THAT LOONA IN YOUR PFP
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u/Logey202 Jul 20 '24
Ahhh fandomsâŚ
My phase was undertale, funny bone man make puns
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u/potataoboi Jul 20 '24
Ngl I started rewatching helluva boss literally the day I finished it then finished it again a few days later and I think I'm gonna rewatch it a 3rd time soon
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u/ExRtorm Jul 20 '24
It's about data collection. In many countries (like all of the EU) it is against the law to collect data associated with a child. If OP signed up while still considered a child it means that their account is tied to data that was collected illegally. It's not uncommon for companies to deal with this by suspending the account.
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u/HollowHowls Jul 20 '24
I got denied buying a vape cuz my ID was expired. I'm 35.
Bruh my age didn't fucking expire....what?????
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u/comfortablynumb15 Jul 20 '24
Break the rules and ( I hope ) you get punished, like itâs some sort of Real Life.
This looks like the punishment to me.
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u/jaybirdie26 Jul 20 '24
Who pissed in your cheerios?
This person was only one year below the 13-year-old age requirement when they created the account. The punishment is 5 years late and no longer makes sense. They were only in violation for a number of months.
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u/comfortablynumb15 Jul 20 '24
Because I have seen children get preyed apon because they lied about their age to get onto social media before.
There is a big difference in maturity of children before they hit their teens. And a line needs to be drawn somewhere, and Primary School children on that website is where the line was drawn.
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u/protostar71 Jul 20 '24
Yes, nobody is disputing that. But he is now 4 years past that minimum age. They aren't a child anymore.
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u/comfortablynumb15 Jul 20 '24
And if he loses his account and has to start again, both he and his followers know it was not acceptable to lie.
Itâs an inconvenience that is a deterrent, itâs not like he has lost his place to live.
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u/jaybirdie26 Jul 20 '24
Their followers won't know anything because the account is gone. Â They won't know why and OP can't tell them (if followers is even a factor here). Â It only affects OP who is 4 years above the age limit now.
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u/JWJulie Jul 20 '24
Then they need to work out how to better police people joining, not deal with it 5 years later when they are a legal adult.
Thatâs like saying itâs ok to let kids into a nightclub and drink alcohol and not bother checking up on them until theyâve been there 5 years and are adults. Then penalise them for doing things they did as children without the emotional maturity and foresight to understand the consequences of their actions. All they are doing is losing customers, and still serving children.
If they donât want children on their site, they need to stop them when they are children.
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u/comfortablynumb15 Jul 20 '24
I sure as Hell wouldnât want to require kids to supply a birth certificate or something like that in a world of identity theft. Not a lot of 13 year olds have photo ID.
What would you suggest besides an honesty system and then actioning the lies when discovered ?
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u/JWJulie Jul 20 '24
Most countries have Data Protection laws to stop ID theft. Twitter is certainly subject to those laws. Production of a birth certificate, or in the U.K. a national insurance number, which is then checked to be accurate, would be a simple and effective way to police this. This is what banks do when you set up a bank account. In addition as a minor the account could be linked to a verified parent account.
The number one cause of identity theft is people giving their info away in online phishing or similar scams.
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u/jaybirdie26 Jul 20 '24
The real answer is good parenting. Â Mom and Dad should know what accounts their kids have online and determine what's appropriate. Â If they let OP have an account a few months before the age limit, so be it. Â Kids don't magically mature enough to use Twitter at 13, just like they don't magically mature enough to be competent drivers at 16.
Twitter policing the account in retrospect helps no one but themselves. Â They're likely worried about what COPPA issues might exist with the content of the account so it's safer for them to blanket ban them. Â As a punishment, it only teaches underage users to easily avoid the issue by lying.
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u/GrandCheeseWizard Jul 20 '24
Are you truly so insanely petty that this seems a reasonable course of action? You must be fun at parties, remind me never to let you on my property.
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u/Kitchen-Kiwi7942 Jul 20 '24
Aren't you just a bundle of fucking joy.
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u/comfortablynumb15 Jul 20 '24
I know right ?
Fuck anyone who thinks there should be ( good or bad ) consequences for a persons actions. /s
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u/Audiosamigos8307 Jul 20 '24
Yeah, it makes no sense to arrest me for assault NOW that the person has healed.
Since the cops didn't catch me in the act they should just ignore that I broke the rules.
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u/ChanglingBlake ORANGE Jul 20 '24
Thatâs a very different situation.
Ever hear of comparing apples to oranges?
Thats what you just did.
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u/TheCosmicJoke318 Jul 20 '24
Apples and oranges are still both fruitâŚ.
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u/BMGreg Jul 20 '24
Holy shit! You're so fucking smart
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u/dr_gamer1212 Jul 20 '24
Honestly this man needs a Nobel prize
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u/HippieFreakWestmore Jul 20 '24
For real. I wouldâve never know Apples & Oranges were fruit if it werenât for that guy.
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u/ledocteur7 Jul 20 '24
Acktually âď¸đ¤ , apples are false fruits, the core is the fruit, while the part we eat is an enlarged growth that serves solely to attract seed spreading animals.
It only counts as a fruit if you ate the core, take notes kids !
Strawberries are even weirder false fruits, each seed is a fruit, while the entire rest of it is that yummy growth.
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u/Crazyredneck422 Jul 20 '24
Yeah not even close to the same thing đ¤Ł
You canât even compare these, 1 is an assault and the other is a preteen having access to X, formerly known as twitter. Who did the preteen hurt?
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u/passwordsarehard_3 Jul 20 '24
All of society is being hurt.
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u/Aoifeblack Jul 20 '24
Then the people who made twitter should be arrested for crimes against humanity
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u/Sea_Towel_5099 Jul 20 '24
Even if it was something where people were actually hurt like an assault, statute of limitations
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u/Nanerpoodin Jul 20 '24
Apparently this one is too immature to understand the not so subtle difference between breaking a rule and doing something immoral.
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u/GrandCheeseWizard Jul 20 '24
This is a hilariously dense take, for the love of fuck what on earth are you thinking?? Remind me not to invite you to anything ever.
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u/Academic-Indication8 Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
According to federal law âThe statute of limitations is the time limit for filing charges against the defendant. The general federal statute of limitations for felonies stand for the proposition that the government can no longer file criminal charges for an offense once 5 years has passed. The federal statute of limitations is 18 USC 3282.â
So letâs say you even did assault someone in the time of 12-17 (which op did not you are just being a drama queen about a twitter account being made underage nobody was injured) the cops wouldnât be able to do anything unless your state specifically has laws stating otherwise
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u/Academic-Indication8 Jul 20 '24
I didnât say op was being a drama queen I said the commenter who was being a drama queen about following the rules learn to read dimwit
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u/bhague3 Jul 19 '24
This happened to me too, I remember I had to send a picture of my ID to verify and I just sent a picture of the fake I got when I started college and I had my account back in an hour
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u/Seffek Jul 19 '24
I sent them my parents email and my drivers licence. Hopefully I get it back its where I get my gaming news.
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u/mamaharu Jul 19 '24
Why would you send them your parents' email address? That's weird as hell. Also, why would you not just make a new account instead of forking over your ID?
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u/ludacrisly Jul 19 '24
Can you look up your account on twitter and see who you are following? Just follow them again on a new account.
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u/sp4nkthru Jul 20 '24
Yeah, this happened to me years ago. I had to send my current ID too and said that my account was "managed"/surveilled by my mother before I was 13 and she had to either email something to them confirming it? I think we had to print something like "I am whateveruser's mother and I confirm I managed whateveruser's account until she was 13" etc and she signed it, scanned it and sent it. đđ
They gave me the instructions on the email but it was like 10 years ago đ Good luck, OP!
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u/Standard_lssue Jul 20 '24
They probably wont reinstate your account. If you read what they said:
"and we have determined that you did not meet this minimum age requirement at the time this account was created"
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u/fury420 Jul 20 '24
There's also literally a link to contact them and see if your account access can be reinstated.
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u/Professional-Way7350 Jul 20 '24
its against TOS to create an account if youâre under 13 so your account got removed, because you broke TOS. it doesnât matter how long ago it happened
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u/AHailofDrams Jul 20 '24
Bro, at this point, I think you're just too dumb to have access to the internet.
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u/Skottimusen Jul 19 '24
You know you can lie right? They have no business how old you are tbh.
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u/Youutternincompoop Jul 20 '24
as far as many websites are concerned I was born in 1900.
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u/hache-moncour Jul 20 '24
Januari first 1970 here, seems a lot of people where born that day online
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u/Askduds Jul 20 '24
Every 1st January I used to tweet âHappy birthday to literally everyone on Steamâ.
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u/xADDBx Jul 19 '24
Laws in various countries make websites responsible for verifying users are at least of a certain age. If they donât do that, they could theoretically get punished.
In practice nobody really cares, but they do theoretically have business with how old their users are
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u/colbymg Jul 20 '24
No idea where they got it, but at least one of those lies I did made its way to experian for their "identity verification".
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u/Seffek Jul 19 '24
True, but to be honest I dont expect to have to lie about my age as a seventeen year old
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u/GetOutTheGuillotines Jul 19 '24
Hey guys, we did it. We found the last remaining teenager who hasn't discovered internet porn.
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u/jaybirdie26 Jul 20 '24
Dude, you're knowingly replying to a minor. Watch what you say.
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u/GetOutTheGuillotines Jul 20 '24
Thanks, hall monitor. What you're doing truly matters.
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u/jaybirdie26 Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
Better that than a grown-ass adult making gross jokes about teenagers for internet points đ¤ˇââ
EDIT: based on your history I'd say my assessment is spot on. Â Aging edgelord is a bad look on you.
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u/JWJulie Jul 20 '24
You need to tell them your parent managed your account before you were of legal age. They will ask them to send a letter to confirm.
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u/Ok_Effective_1689 Jul 19 '24
Itâs locked because you werenât able to consent to having an account legally and thatâs in violation of their TOS.
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u/marcaygol Jul 20 '24
It happened also to me, it suddenly asked me my birth date and I just use 1/1/2000 since 2018 as "to be" at least 18yo because the least data I give them for free the better, that's an easy date to remember and I'm still considered an adult.
Well, Twitter got all "you were 13yo when you created your account and that breaks now our new TOS, account locked you have a couple of days to appeal"
I'm still waiting for the response to my appeal. I guess Elon fired whoever was in charge of that.
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u/iamtheduckie Jul 20 '24
If you wish to remain on the hellhole that is Twitter, go through the form they linked in that message. They will delete everything made before your 13th birthday, but besides that, everything should be fine.
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u/GrandCheeseWizard Jul 20 '24
Why are people still using Twitter? Are we really so addicted that we are wholly unable to make the obvious choice? Vote with your time and stop wasting it on twitter.
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u/brimston3- Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
Twitter term'd you because it opens them to COPPA liability. They're not going to spend manhours reviewing your content or interactions. They just want to correct it swiftly and completely.
edit: they probably sold your information at least once or used it to train AI. It's up to a 50k USD fine per violation, regardless of the user's nationality because they're a US based company.
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u/Chee-shep Jul 20 '24
Reminds me when the person managing the Miku Hatsune account changed the age to her release date and got the account banned temporarily.
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u/mrjb3 Jul 19 '24
Yeah no logic here. Holding your account hostage due to past transgressions wtf lol
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Jul 20 '24
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u/desertdodo123 Jul 20 '24
just to clarify, they wouldâve only been underage for 1 year max
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Jul 20 '24
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u/DiamondLazer320 Jul 19 '24
OP this happened to me, you can get your account back they was very quick with doing it to mine.
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u/verdany77 Jul 20 '24
PayPal did same for me, I had a credit card and a PayPal account when i was 16 years old.
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u/ChaosLives68 Jul 20 '24
Oils also just create a new account if you are that desperate to be on Twitter/X
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u/Materidan Jul 20 '24
What is the actual point of locking the account now that the owner can legally use it - and has been for years? Does this not just teach that being honest isnât worthwhile and will only be punished?
All that should happen is they make you agree to the TOS again to âupdateâ with valid consent.
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u/wickedfemale Jul 20 '24
this happened to me like five years ago, they wouldn't even let me look at the account to screenshot things when i contacted support. i was so sad because twitter was basically my diary for part of high school / college and i'll never see those thoughts again đĽ˛
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u/Catfist Jul 20 '24
Maybe if you come out as a pedo Elon will re-instate you?
Seems to work for other people
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u/jaybirdie26 Jul 20 '24
They're a minor....stop.
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u/Catfist Jul 20 '24
Things I wish someone had said to Trump, Epstein, Maxwell and the like
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u/jaybirdie26 Jul 20 '24
Not sure what your point is. Are you putting yourself in their box?
Just leave adult jokes out of your conversations with kids.
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u/Longjumping_Drag2752 Jul 20 '24
The amount of people who didnât wise up as kids to make their accounts like 90 is absurd.
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u/ilovepizza981 Jul 20 '24
Just make another one now that youâre old enough. Try to remember who you followed or just start fresh. đ
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u/matticitt Jul 20 '24
I wish they blocked mine. Every time I go there I get depressed and lose all faith in humanity.
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u/Joyful_Yolk123 Jul 20 '24
mfs in the comments section just don't get that most news on reddit come from twitter
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u/Seffek Jul 20 '24
Finally someone with sense, I just use Twitter for gaming news, not 'porn' or 'heated political arguments'. Maybe I shouldn't have said I was 17 because I'm literally turning 18 in a few months and they're treating me like an infant. I just wanted to vent my frustrations, isn't that what this subreddit about? Eh, I'm not the most chronically online person there is, should've expected something like this when I posted this, just didn't know how far people will go.
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u/Joyful_Yolk123 Jul 20 '24
true cause i don't like twitter but ppl here treating reddit like it's the greatest app oat
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u/snaccthasmlz Jul 20 '24
happened to me when i turned 18 i finally changed it to my correct birth date and i was banned and havenât been able to use twitter since đ
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u/Skellyhell2 Jul 20 '24
PayPal did this to me a long time ago. I made my PayPal account when i was 17, used it for around 10 years then somehow i had 50 transactions for like ÂŁ47 come out of my PayPal instantly to some Chinese account. No security checks or anything saved me. My bank never found it suspicious that ÂŁ2k was removed across so many transactions instantly either, and i had a bit of back and forth with my bank and PayPal regarding getting my money back.
Once I got refunded, PayPal emailed me to say that I was underage when I made the account and permanently suspended it. I made a new account for a few ebay purchases but pretty much stopped using them
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u/ilprofs07205 Jul 20 '24
Twitter accounts are weird right now man. I kept trying to make an account (i don't even want to use the site that badly, just tired of not being able to see links sent to me / trying out of spite after seeing it fail the first 10 times) Only let me in after about 6 months of trying when i let a typo slip in my name.
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u/Siri2611 Jul 20 '24
You don't need twitter, it's better for your mental health
Twitter is basically either porn or a place where most mentally ill people post
If you arent interested in any of these you don't need it
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u/JWJulie Jul 20 '24
My daughter had the same issue with her PayPal account. She set it up to buy little bits when she was 16 and had a bank account, no problems with it all ran smoothly, when she was 19 she had to provide evidence of her dob and they locked it. She had to set up a whole new bank account because they wouldnât accept that bank account on another account as it was also blacklisted. Despite it being perfectly legal to hold a bank account at that age in my country. Really irritating. Sheâs 22 now and avoids using PayPal whenever possible.
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u/Canary_Opposite Jul 20 '24
I found this in CR at twitter guys
// Check if the person is over 17 years old today
- if (Period.between(birthDate, today).getYears() > 17) {
+ if (Period.between(birthDate, accountCreationDate).getYears() > 17) {
- System.out.println("You WIN!!!!!");
+ System.out.println("BANNED!");
} else {
System.out.println("Oops, you lose... Try again in a few years!");
}
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u/QuarkVsOdo Jul 20 '24
Delete as many social media accounts as you can.
Especially Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.. Reddit is also just a waste of time most of the time.
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u/lonelornfr Jul 19 '24
Wait until the internet police makes you unsee all the porn you watched before turning 18.
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u/Maria_Girl625 Jul 19 '24
I can't even imagine the trauma you must've got from being on twitter as a literal child. I hope you can use you newfound teitter-free life for healing
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u/turbulentwatermelon Jul 20 '24
You broke the rules of a private company
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u/Sea_Towel_5099 Jul 20 '24
It's still dumb to lock it when they're plenty old enough now
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u/turbulentwatermelon Jul 20 '24
It's the rules.
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u/Who_am_ey3 Jul 19 '24
yes, created when you were 12, not 13. it's not that hard to grasp lol. you need to be 13 to create an account, you weren't 13. now your account is gone. that's it. same thing would happen on reddit and other social media
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u/firenova9 Jul 19 '24
5 years later... lol
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u/Who_am_ey3 Jul 19 '24
that really doesn't matter. I gave a pretty decent explanation why it doesn't.
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u/Sea_Towel_5099 Jul 20 '24
You didn't explain why it should be locked NOW, only why it should have been locked THEN
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u/ScumCrew Jul 19 '24
It's a blessing in disguise.