You Need To Calm Down

Peter Rukavina

As part of trying to restore access to my disabled Instagram account, which I do now only for sport, without a sense of urgency, I received this very unusual error message from Facebook (even though, at the time, I wasn’t “on Facebook,” but rather “on Instagram”). I’ve written my fair share of error messages in my day, but I don’t think I’ve ever achieved this surreal height.

See also You Need To Calm Down.

Facebook modal dialog telling me I need to slow down

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Submitted by Dave Hyndman on

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Definitely a weird weird error message. But it makes me wonder if you have some sort of automation running against your account. Any chance you created something at some point and forgot about it?

Submitted by Paul Capewell on

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Whatever happened to "move fast and break things"?!

This is definitely a weird message though... I get the premise, but the wording is so odd!

Submitted by Rob on

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See Teresa Wright's Twitter thread about this at 9:38 AM today. Someone is targeting local IG accounts.

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