YOU may not think twice about posting a photo wearing a puffer jacket on Instagram but be careful you don’t end up on a ‘down jacket porn’ account.
After posting a photo wearing a puffer jacket I found myself reposted on a seemingly innocent puffer jacket fan page.
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The ‘fan page’ itself didn’t seem problematic.
It had plenty of other pictures of women wearing their coats in cold weather.
However, the repost was soon followed by an influx of more puffer jacket accounts following me and liking and commenting on my posts.
Then, the messages started.
I received multiple messages asking me to post more photos in the coat.
Another said they’d pay me upfront to view my puffer jacket over Zoom.
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This may all sound quite innocent but the bios of some of these accounts told a different story.
One said: “I love girls in shiny nylon down jackets coats overalls and pants and love sex for making pregnant”.
Another account description read: “I am a man who loves women in down clothing, sneakers, buffalos and also women’s feet.
“The pictures on my site are not my property.”
That bio is especially concerning because it highlights how your images could end up on one of these accounts without your knowledge.
If you have a public Instagram profile and you tag a puffer jacket or down jacket account or brand, you may be opening yourself up to this situation.
One puffer jacket account I saw labeled itself as “18+” and featured a link to explicit puffer jacket porn.
The Sun highlighted this content to Instagram.
It responded: “We’re sorry you were made to feel uncomfortable by the messages you received. We’ve investigated and disabled one of the accounts you shared with us.
“While we will take action on anything which violates our community standards, we also wanted to share some information with you on our safety features which we’ve developed to stop people from seeing messages they don’t want to on the app – we hope these are helpful and you can make use of them. These are accessed through your app settings.
“DM controls: You can control who can message you – e.g. you can choose to only receive messages from people you follow.
“Hidden Words: allows you to filter DMs and comments that contain abusive terms, so you never have to see them.”
Instagram also recommended blocking users that make you feel uncomfortable and selecting the option to preemptively block any new accounts they may make.
We’ve rounded up some of the most important Instagram safety tips below.
Instagram safety tips
The best thing you can do to keep yourself safe from strangers on Instagram is set your account to private.
If you can’t do this for work reasons or simply don’t want to, then there are other safety measures you can take.
Make use of Instagram’s “Block” feature.
You can block someone by going on their profile, clicking the three dots in the upper right-hand corner and clicking “Block”.
You should also report any behavior you’re not comfortable with and ask Instagram to take down photos if they’ve been used without your consent.
Click on the three dots in the upper right-hand corner of a photo you’re not happy with and click “Report”.
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