You have undoubtedly encountered a hidden post or ‘photo unavailable’ that your friend sent you through direct message (DM) over Instagram. It was due to the privacy setting of that specific account because it did not want any random user to show its content. And only after adding you in their following list will you see their posts and stories. It is not the case of public accounts, as any random user can view an open account’s content. The oldest accounts related to motivation and meme pages are becoming private from the public, and the reason may vary for each of them. After getting millions of followers, they might be getting issues with their comments or any other disturbing activity. Some people need to protect the originality of their content by keeping it hidden from unknown or shady users.
Few reasons Instagram accounts are getting private might be these:
- More followers: When somebody in your list sends you a post of some page, and sadly, the profile is closed, you get an urge to see that post. It makes the user enticed to send that private account a follow request to view private instagram. Switching to a private account is a great way to achieve more followers.
- Seems mysterious: When a public Instagram account user has gained thousands or millions of followers before going private, it will make the public think that there must be some quality content present in there. That is why the public is following this account. This strategy makes them follow that private account more. A huge jump, i.e., approximately ten times more in the number of followers, has been noticed in case of several meme pages after going private.
- Retain followers: When a user thinks he is following extra pages and plans to un-follow them, the individual accounts gain benefit. The user cannot remove them from his list by clicking on the unfollow button. Instead, he is required to go to the profile of that page, and then it will be done. It sometimes makes the user rethink his decision to un-follow the respected page and benefit that page by retaining it as his follower.
- Less stealing: The primary reason these days’ meme pages are going private is that other new meme pages copy their material. Their effort is getting in disdain. Going private helps in preventing the stealing of the creative content by other parties.
- Limited messages: When a person’s account is public, any random user can ping them easily. But in the case of a private account, it is tough to get into the user’s DMs, providing him more control over the messages. It brings a state of peaceful and quality interaction with only relevant users.
The final lines: Along with these points, a private account user is also somewhat safe from getting reported by any user. Because sometimes the public can be offended due to any content posted by a public account and report it.