Note that my Facebook account has zero friends, zero posts, zero photos, and has made zero comments in the last 4+ years. It only still exists so that I can admin our business pages.
"We may be unable to review your account. We apologize for any inconvenience "
Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
Your lack of activity is a violation of their Community Standards. You’re not producing enough data to feed their targeted marketing machine. Their Community Standards require you to CONSUME, citizen.
Well, who hasn't?
Nazis?
You're fired.
Oh, you're not fired
We did remove the head of HR though.
Why not upload some of those "too big for rubetube" videos to bookface, it's their storage after all....
Technically, they did, but then Facebook didn't... do anything about it, demonstrating the value of their standards: not worth the paper they're not printed on.
Always leave the door open so the Nazis can get in. Just look at Apple:
I had an account they wanted me to verify my identity since I hadn't used it in awhile. I didn't want facebook having my ID information. So, I used that account to sign up for a service that allows you to use facebook for authentication. All of a sudden I no longer needed to prove myself.
Sign up at a random "Sign up using facebook" site with your account, and see if the problem goes away.
I didn't know about this specific way but in the past I had an account that required the whole ID process and I managed to skip it by using the link in the email they had sent me about not using my account for an extended period of time.
In the last few years I've found setting a email filter to auto-delete anything from @facebook to be very effective. I haven't been bothered by their "a lot's happened" or "Bob sent you a message" or "all your friends are having a party. here's photos. 'Cause they can't be bothered to use email any more and now you're dead to them" messages.
Dan, at some point censorship isn't the answer. At some point the Socratic method reigns supreme.
> Note that my Facebook account has zero friends, zero posts, zero photos, and has made zero comments in the last 4+ years.
Lieutenant Commander Zuck finds your lack of engagement... unsatisfactory.
Even in SF you can't afford to be not on fartbork? A colleague got this trying to buy adverts from them with a new account, after adding a credit card, and still no reviewers. This was in the before times, so no pandemic excuses. It's like they just can't imagine there are humans who haven't already tagged every bbq photo on their walled-garden webshite.
The collapse of social networks happens two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
None of the mainstream social networks deserve that moniker anymore (if they ever did).
"adutainment" fits better, I think.
C.
Suckage. Cross Gilliam's Brazil with Kafka's The Trial... Such is the nature of "business" relationships in the modern age, I guess? I am sorry they closed your account.
"Welcome, my son. Welcome to the machine... it's all right, we know where you've been..."
It's bizarre how closely Facebook, YouTube, Google, Amazon et al. take their playbook from Orwell. Always unspecified charges, levelled by unspecified people hidden within a dubious collective identity, without any obvious logical recourse (apart from the forest of automated forms and other assorted hamster wheels used to create the appearance of due process; these only exist to consume your time and energy generating input for /dev/null while quenching a desire to respond in some way). If you don't know what you're being accused of and by whom, and if they are refusing to say... well, that sort or pre-emptively shuts down the option of resolution through dialogue and diplomacy. Their unvarnished message to you could not be more clear: What are you prepared to -do- about it? Sounds like a quote from The Untouchables. Some have answered that call by walking away, those with deeper pockets occasionally lawyer up and some have even resorted to acts of violence, etc. Hardly a satisfying state of affairs. Honestly, I'd just leave. But since you run a business (that really wants to stay in business--covid and city bureaucracy be damned) that may not really be an option for you... :-/
Best of luck,
Japh
How can FB play the Covid card when reviewing internet content is THE easiest task to outsource to people working from home?
It’s not like reviewing content requires everyone to be in the same room shouting at each other like the trading floor at the NYSE.
It's traumatic to watch the horrors that people push through this free-at-point-of-use publishing platform. I think you've asked the Dunning-Kruger 'how hard can it be?' without thought for the impact on people having to assure FB that a moderation decision 'yes, that was a beheading video' / 'yes that was footage of a rape'. That's even before getting to partisan political advertising and plain-untrue anti-scientific assertions.
Maybe -- but most likely not -- you could get more people shocked and expressing outrage but having the user community see how horrid the user community is. That would come at the expense of admitting that the machine learning and prediction efforts are smoke and bullsh_t and it's still cost-effective to use human effort.
K3n.
my theory is that a random facebooker looked at the "if you work at facebook quit" messages and said "i'll show that fucker." looking the other way when fascists, nazi's, and/or white-supremacists poke the hornet's nest of clicks and attendant ad-revenue is the facebook community standard.
I misread "facebooker" as "facebooger" for a moment..., and now that I think about it....
That final message, with the-apology-that's-not-an-apology just breaks my brain.
"We're giving you nearly four feet of spiked, electrified c*ck... we apologize for any perceived discomfort or notional distress..."
Warm regards,
The-Owl-That's-Not-An-Owl Dept.
Maybe script something (through node-js?) that checks the status of your page, hourly, and if it is still in the suspended state, bonk the "remediation" button? That way they will know that someone cares about that account, even if it actually appears to be a vacant lot?