Facebook locked me out.

[QillerDaemon]

So about six weeks ago I visited my Facebook page to do a chat with my niece. Her mother, my sister, died, and I wanted to get in contact with my niece about the arrangements. After logging in, I was immediately greeted with a "your access is blocked" due to some deal about a person on my friends list doing something sketchy. Nice, but what does that have to do with me? Everyone on my friends list is either family or old school friends, a total of eleven people some of whom have passed. I have a dozen old pictures of my cats or things, and only two with my face (this is important later). I only use FB to chat with what's left of my family or couple of friends, otherwise I really don't care two shits other than I've been on FB about fifteen years, back when it was definitely a different and friendlier platform.

An email was sent to my regular email account to lodge an appeal, and for the sake of the little list of friends I decided to take it. I imagined it was as simple as logging into their appeal page and stating the facts ("either remove the block or I bale out of this sad old platform"). I do the MFA with my listed phone number, then the appeal page tells me I have to submit a video of my face. This I will *not* do.

First, there are only two pictures of me on FB, one from my graduation group photo from 44 years ago, and a very grainy photo of me with my then alive siblings from 30 years ago after my mother died. No other picture! I look very different than from so long ago, a little chubbier and a whole lot more grey. So what does a video of my face now prove? I also do not want my video to be used for any purposes other than to lodge the stupid appeal, for whatever purposes Meta and Zuckerberg believe it should be used for instead. I'm not sure I should trust Meta anymore, just like I definitely don't trust X, the former Twitter, and never did. I don't like that I (or anyone else) am now being used more for a sales opportunity rather than as a valued platform member.

So..., should I just bale on FB now and leave the Zuck behind?

PS: I've been in contact with the rest of the people on my FB friends list, and not a one of them has been blocked or told to file any appeal. Just me, for something they claim is due to a person on my list.

[B-Tender]

I left Facebook almost 4 years ago and haven't looked back or missed it.

[Reservoir Dog]

I've been in contact with the rest of the people on my FB friends list, and not a one of them has been blocked or told to file any appeal. Just me, for something they claim is due to a person on my list.

Biker?

[QillerDaemon]

Biker? No...

[Reservoir Dog]

Biker? No...

Cheezy?
Necro?

Come on, dude... tell us who the domestic terrorist is!

[Who]

FB has a nifty feature called reels featuring old stand up videos, cooking videos, woodworking.

Like you just like you the few relatives I have left and friends some that have transitioned to the other side.

Whenever I need to buy something they always have a source for my purchase. Weird huh?

[stonedmegman]

Fuck Facebook

[CHEEZY17]

I'm not the biggest fan. It's my primary advertising vehicle for my business though. I target soccer moms and while its influence is dwindling they still love their Facebook.

[Biker]

*bail

[hawkfan8812]

I have heard from a few folks who were sent to FB "jail" for a temp amount of time, but I have never heard of an email sent to click a link for an appeal.

If you don't use it, leave it for sure.

[CHEEZY17]

I get the "spam" Facebook messages ALL. THE. TIME.
Usually at least 1 or 2 per day telling me Ive done something wrong or violated something and if I dont respond my account will be "suspended".
That said, I did get sent to Facebook "jail" a few years ago and it sucked ass. The process to fix the issue is not user friendly at all (at least at that time. Maybe its better now). It took about 2 months to get it resolved and that was only because I think I finally got a chat help flunky that seemed to actually care about my plight.

[jsdspif]

now (at least for me) if I'm on a facebook page, browsing, looking at a menu etc, after about a minute they do the login popup but I don't want to login, I don't really like it. I think I made a dumb mistake some years back they had me on some sort of ban but I never used facebook and they wanted a scan of my driver license with the address blocked out so I did that. Only reason was I was trying to reach someone and he told me to message him on facebook with the info he wanted. I'm still also pissed,fuckberg or whatever his name is said he was donating 99 % of his money to charity, like right then, not after he died. All he gave was 900,000 or something to his wife's charity. I'm also willing to bet like bezos, probably pays pretty much nothing in income tax, while I make virtually nothing and pay about 20% federal. Such a scam.
On the plus side though, i couldn't really understand him all that well, but Billings called a while back and it sounded like he said his lady friend turned 88 so he went and paid her a visit. I did understand him when he said he just let her ride it. I don't know, I don't think I could do it, but Billings isn't real picky.

[jsdspif]

I'm not the biggest fan. It's my primary advertising vehicle for my business though. I target soccer moms and while its influence is dwindling they still love their Facebook.

That's one thing I used to say was as a marketing tool it seems like it would be fantastic until now when they are forcing users to login. If I was advertising my business on there I'd complain about that switch.

[stonedmegman]

The Ottawa Dragon boat festival, in their infinite wisdom, decided to change from a BBS to Facebook.

The following season it was back to a BBS

[disco.moon]

Sorry to hear about your sister I've been Facebook free for many months. What a relief!

[Ricrude]

Gave up on FB about 11 years ago...