I kept getting FB/IG accounts checkpointed. The problem was not luck, it was my setup.
A few years ago, I was trying to grow multiple Facebook and Instagram accounts for online business stuff.
Selling, affiliate, testing pages, that kind of thing.
And I kept running into the same problem:
- New account
- A few actions
- Then checkpoint
Sometimes phone verification.
Sometimes the account just became useless.
At first I thought I was unlucky.
Then I realized I was doing almost everything wrong.
I was using the same device environment for different accounts.
I did not understand browser fingerprints.
I used cheap proxies that were probably already abused.
I tried to make new accounts behave like normal accounts too quickly.
I also did too much manual activity in bursts because I only had time to work in short sessions.
That combination was basically asking platforms to flag me.
What changed things was thinking about account trust before monetization.
A new account should not look like a business machine on day one.
It needs normal behavior first.
My current checklist is simple:
- Separate browser profile for each account,
- Clean proxy for each profile,
- Slow warm-up period,
- No aggressive posting early,
- Normal browsing behavior,
- Small actions spread across time,
- Same login environment every day,
- And no switching IP/location randomly.
The biggest lesson:
Most people try to fix checkpoint problems after they happen.
They buy more phone numbers.
They create more accounts.
They try to recover dead profiles.
But the real fix is before the checkpoint.
Build the account environment properly first.
If the foundation is bad, every growth tactic just makes the problem worse.