-_- I Got In Trouble With FaceBook… For Sharing An Ad Posted on FaceBook
This morning I hit “share” on an ad that was posted on FaceBook. To my surprise, a few minutes later, I was hit with a message that my post “goes against our Community Standards.”
As you can see from the screenshots, an ad for a local gym appeared in my feed. I hit “share,” and shortly after I was told that I had violated the “community standards” for hitting “share” on the ad.
Presumably, this is an ad that this gym had paid FaceBook in order to run. But in any case, this was not MY post! It had nothing to do with me, all I did was hit “share,” so why am I being reprimanded by the idiotic bots at FakeBook over this????????
Of course, I appealed by hitting “Request review,” but I should not have to. I am on social media, on a lazy Sunday Morning, watching Yaron Brook encouraging us to find beauty in the world, while drinking my coffee, lifting weights, and trying to decide on visiting a new church this morning or going to my standard church.
Then I get this message from FaceBook…
By the way, the account for this gym is still up, and nothing looks sketchy or spammy about it. It just looks like a local gym that paid for advertising on FaceBook.
I once heard a horror story from comedian and political commentator Steven Crowder to the effect that they had paid FaceBook to design ads for them, and then FaceBook decided that the ads, which FaceBook had created, went against Community Standards.
Honestly, why am I even on FaceBook at this point?
I hit “share” on an ad, and FaceBook comes after me for it.
Even if this somehow went against Community Standards, this was not MY post! It had nothing to do with me! So why am I being targeted?
FaceBook needs to be reminded that MySpace was the big thing just before FaceBook. AOL was HUGE during that same era. We’ve seen major shifts in the past during mass exoduses from one platform to another and it can happen again. And when that happens, people typically do not go back.
Whatever backdoor deals are happening in smoke-filled rooms, these tech giants better decide if they are worth losing 99%+ of their user base.
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