Faceback

I'm back on Facebook. The pop-up message that kept blocking access to Facebook and caused me to start a new account disappeared, and I was able to return on my original account.  I even got my pictures back.  But sadly, that's not the end of the story.

I have been getting daily notices that my content had been removed for being spam, which violated community standards, and for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what the offending content was (Facebook wouldn't show me) or why I was getting a notice every day for it - before, after and even during the five-day period that the pop-up message blocking access to Facebook was.  Then I was directed to go to my support inbox, where I found 47 new alerts - each one for a notice I'd received since late August.  They turned out to be for separate community-standards violations.  And then it made sense.

As of May 25, 2021, you might recall, I was no longer allowed to post links to my blog on Facebook because someone reported it as spam.  Then, in late August, Facebook suddenly began removing links to my blog that I'd posted onto my timeline before May 25, 2021 and counted each one as a retroactive violations of community standards against spam! 

And they keep coming - because  I'd been posting links to my blog posts since 2009!

What that means is that  Facebook's "technology" (i.e., its bot army) is going to find so many retroactive violations, it likely won't just ban my original account permanently, it'll ban me from Facebook altogether - unless I go into my support inbox and answer each and every charge and say I disagree with Facebook's decision to ban my blog links as spam! I already got a 24-hour ban from clicking "Like" on anything for multiple violations against community standards for spam; there are much more "violations" for Facebook to go through, and I'm likely to receive progressively bigger punishments going forward. And all this time, I thought Facebook had already taken down all of my earlier links tomy blog and my blog posts when it stopped letting me posting them in May 2021.

I can't get anyone from Facebook to help me, and Mark Zuckerberg obviously doesn't give a damn. 

Yeah, my original Facebook account is accessible again, but things are bound to get worse for me before they get even worse.  To explain it in simpler terms, what Facebook is doing is the equivalent of what you'd get if the government, which banned the drug Ecstasy in 1985, sicced the Drug Enforcement Administration on someone and threw the book at him for using Ecstasy in 1983.  I can't even reactivate my new account because Facebook has since made it impossible to reactivate additional accounts. 

I will try to stay on Facebook, but if they try to expel me, I'll deny them the pleasure.  I'll quit Facebook first.

Quitting, of course, is nothing new for me.