I hate the way Instagram allows people to sign up and use the service without verifying the email address they used to sign up with. I'm assuming this is the ca

I hate the way Instagram allows people to sign up and use the service without verifying the email address they used to sign up with. I'm assuming this is the case after someone used my email to create a profile on Instagram. I started receiving notification emails from Instagram a few weeks ago, which I ignored at first thinking they were fake. On closer inspection they actually were from Instagram, so I clicked "forgot password" on the Instagram website, reset their password, logged in and deleted all their content and permanently deleted their account. By the looks of it, the profile belonged to some kid - a few family photos and so on. It's quite slack of Instagram that this is possible. They should not be allowing people to create profiles and use the service before first verifying the email address used to sign up with. I guess basic verification is trumped by the need for "active users" to motivate these "stroke of genius" articles.