Facepalm

Recently, I accidentally posted a link to one of my entries on this blog to Facebook, and it went through, much to my pleasant surprise.  I hadn't been able to post a link to my blog on Facebook since May 2021.  I was intrigued to resume posting links to my blog on Facebook, though I had planned to do it slowly.  In the meantime, I post one or two links here and there on different group pages, and they went through as well.  I thought that perhaps Facebook no longer considered my blog spam.

El wrongo!  As soon as Facebook - the administrators, the bots, whatever - realized that it had let links to my blog pass through, it quickly reverted to form and removed them, giving my the customary six months to contest it, which I did.  Among the links that Facebook removed was a link to one of my posts about actress Roberta Collins that I posted in a Facebook fan group page for . . . Roberta Collins.

The nameless, faceless, soulless folks who ruin Facebook and program the bots have long memories and short tolerance levels.  It's been nearly four years now, and Facebook still thinks my blog is toxic.  Even when I post an appropriate link to a group page, it removes my content because someone got annoyed that I was always posting links to my blog all over the place on the platform and had me flagged.  And it continues even now.  Someone apparently reported my blog as spam, but I don't know how or why. 

Ahh, who cares?  I now post links to this blog on LinkedIn, Mastodon, and Bluesky . . . and I still get a respectable number of pageviews.  In fact, my previous post, about Trump seeking to annex foreign lands - a piece written on the fly that I wasn't too thrilled with - got 94 pageviews!

Geez, the worse your writing is, the more people like you.    

But that's as may be, Facebook's censorship isn't doing me any favors.