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Are you deleting ig for your own benefit or for benefit of others? If it bothers you a lot - talk to other people about it and explain your reasons. If not - stop worrying about it. There are much more important things to do. For example spending time with your friends and loved ones or doing things you like.

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The point is - how does Instagram know you should be re-invited if you are deleted? If you are really deleted, they shouldn't know you were ever a member.

If you have an FB account, your FB friends who use Instagram will see prompts to invite you to Instagram.

I think OP's point was that the message is specifically to re-invite and is different from normal sell-out-your-friends-to-us-so-we-can-get-better-valuation. This means that, at the very least, IG retains some sort of marker/metadata about you after account deletion.

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