I've done it for people who used my email to sign up for Facebook and Instagram. Presumably now they have a more rigorous verification flow but they used to let people use any email without checking. I can't have a potential criminal using a social account connected to me, so password reset and disable the account is the only rational solution. Obviously this is slightly more problematic for an institution.
It's infuriating that Instagram, Facebook, etc send a "Email Verification" that has NO option to say "Nope, not me, don't want it, don't do it".
Worse, I'd like to create my own Instagram now, but cannot, because somebody else tried to use my email a decade ago and now all I get is a very very confused loop.
I'm sure these systems make sense to somebody, there's detail and nuance and practicality I'm horribly ignorant of, but they just seem insanely unprofessional to me as an outsider :-/
> Worse, I'd like to create my own Instagram now, but cannot, because somebody else tried to use my email a decade ago and now all I get is a very very confused loop.
Why not use a different email address? Nothing about that would make it less your “own” Instagram account.
The email is attached and always has been to my personal Facebook account. But it's also now attached to not-mine instagram account. And because two are kind of independent but kind of integrated, it generates a lot of weirdness I'd like to remove by having my own properly owned and integrated and tagged Facebook and instagram accounts.
It'd take 12 seconds for a human being to figure out but of course that's not an option.
