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the Facebook Sewer

chowderman

Well-known member
years ago I had a Facebook account - because lots of people linked stuff there.
I never ever posted anything to anybody on that account.
despite have Friends Requests limited to Friends of people on my Friends list . . .
and I had zero people listed as "Friends" . . .
every day the account would get 10-20 "Friends Requests" from really really odd people.
which I finally deciphered were hacked accounts with porn sites embedded in the account photo/videos.
later it came out that Facebook sold elevated privileges, so cretins could bypass any and all Facebook 'rules' - which is how, not being a Friend of my (non-existent) Friends list - they could bombard my account with porn spam.

closed the account. some years later when I attempted to open a Facebook account, they demanded my cell phone number.
I responded with a "FU2Facebook" and refused their intrusion.

about a month ago, tripped on a Facebook group / link focused on cooking oysters - and having a 'thing' for oysters, set up a new Facebook account so I could participate in the group.

today I'm notified my account has been suspended for violating Facebook terms.
I never posted anything.
my Facebook activities were limited to reading the "message board" of the oyster group.
they want my phone number
they want a picture of me so they can verify the account.

my picture? against what-in-the-hell exactly are they going to verify that against?
I sent them a pix of my cat.
to be followed by "FU2Facebook"
 
years ago I had a Facebook account - because lots of people linked stuff there.
I never ever posted anything to anybody on that account.
despite have Friends Requests limited to Friends of people on my Friends list . . .
and I had zero people listed as "Friends" . . .
every day the account would get 10-20 "Friends Requests" from really really odd people.
which I finally deciphered were hacked accounts with porn sites embedded in the account photo/videos.
later it came out that Facebook sold elevated privileges, so cretins could bypass any and all Facebook 'rules' - which is how, not being a Friend of my (non-existent) Friends list - they could bombard my account with porn spam.

closed the account. some years later when I attempted to open a Facebook account, they demanded my cell phone number.
I responded with a "FU2Facebook" and refused their intrusion.

about a month ago, tripped on a Facebook group / link focused on cooking oysters - and having a 'thing' for oysters, set up a new Facebook account so I could participate in the group.

today I'm notified my account has been suspended for violating Facebook terms.
I never posted anything.
my Facebook activities were limited to reading the "message board" of the oyster group.
they want my phone number
they want a picture of me so they can verify the account.

my picture? against what-in-the-hell exactly are they going to verify that against?
I sent them a pix of my cat.
to be followed by "FU2Facebook"

apparently they like my cat . . .

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I go there daily, in and out.
Don't post political now, tho I do comment in other political posts/links/stuff.
I go to Facebook solely to interact with family and friends.
Real people whom I've known for years.
Not so much forum friends, BUT, there are exceptions who I do trust .
It's a past time...
Nothing serious, unless you make it serious.
 
no posts, no activity, no nothing . . .
today's idiocy:
"Your Account Is Suspended"
apparently for "violating" invisible rules . . .

with zero point zero decimal zero activity , , , how does one "violate" a rule?
by not rah-rah'ing OBiden?

perhaps we can get Soros to buy Facebook and shut it down?
oh, wait . . .
 
Their algorithms determine who is a good Facebook user and who is a dangerous one...but it's the liberals who entered the criteria for those algorithms. I see friends get suspended every day for sharing a meme or a post, and it's not dangerous stuff. Why can't conservatives come up with platforms that can exceed the liberal handywork?
 
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