It all started with a photograph of a surf break on Tassies East Coast. In the surfing world, there's a whole thing about secret surf breaks and not telling people, so the crowds stay away. In this age of internet, drones and so on, there's little chance any break will actually remain secret, but the joke still remains: if I told you, I'd have to kill you.
Anyone in their right MIND knows this is a joke.
A quick internet search informs me it originally came from Sherlock Holmes:
Doctor: Oh, Mr. Holmes, I would love to tell you, but then, of course, I'd have to kill you.
Sherlock: That would be tremendously ambitious of you.
In fact its so common it's been used in a ton of movies. Thanks Quora for leading me to this:
However, Facebook saw it as threatening and put me in jail for 24 hours. I immediately appealed and they still said nope, it's a violation of community standards.
Horrified and angered, I shared the screenshot of my comment under my original post. Oops. Jailtime AGAIN. For talking about it!
What the actual? So, a few days later, I saw mate had been banned for an equally ridiculous thing. He was arguing a point about climate change and said the guy was 'stupid' if he didn't look at the data he was referring to. I commented with my story as per below.
Yep, back in jail. Just for talking about it. Not only that, this:
Third violation DIDNT EVEN MAKE SENSE. It was the same thing, just I'd been banned from even TALKING about it. I dare not even talk in code lest I be banned again. I don't want to be as I share my travel stories and photos with friends and family there, let alone community groups I'm part of. I'm a social girl online and as much as I hate Facebook, there isn't an alternative that my friends and family would all shift to. As much as I enjoy HIVE, it doesn't function the same way.
So here I am, muffled, muzzled and muted on Facebook for a joke. It feels horrible. There's no repeal either, and whoever is behind the screen is making arbitrary decisions that dont make sense. It's algorithms to begin with, I get that. I was probably flagged for the word 'kill'. But the context of the word begs anyone in their right mind to see the cultural and global JOKE. So is it STILL algorithms just going NUP?
Its right royally pissed me off. I am infuriated by injustice at best of times and hate being misunderstood. And now I'm on their watchlist, so have to be on best behaviour lest I look at someone funny in my gardening group for using chemical fertilisers. Fuck me. I think they might be picking on the wrong person. I'm hardly a neo Nazi broccoli grower now am I?
Fighting against a monolith like Facebook is pointless, I know. But it's still depressing. And I'm not even speaking truth, brah - I was just threatening to kill nephew 😂. Well, he always did think I was gangsta.
Time for a self imposed Facebook jail, limiting my use to once a week and on my PC only. Take that, Fuckbook.
And if anyone disagrees with my decision, I'd have to kill them.
Wait, what's that? I'm still here? That's because I can say stuff like that on HIVE and not be banned. Sure, I might be downvoted out of visibility, but that's only if y'all don't get the joke.
Gulp.
I had enough of FB years ago. I only used it to post the same sort of stuff I now post, about the farm. This was before we started construction. I had set it up as a business page, for the farm. Because I would not buy their advertising, they would not let people who had liked or followed me to see the new posts. So I left and came to Steemit.
You are right in that people reading can't comment or vote unless they are part of HIVE. But I still have people who read the blog every day and either e-mail their comments or call. Both of which I prefer, as it allows more personal contact.
So it works for me, well enough.
I'm glad. Facebook are stupid poo.
It was only a photograph
It was only a photograph
Now, I am restricted from groups
And I have a Facebook jail time
I will be left on mute
And no one will see any posts of mine
Jeez, I could have written much shorter post, right? 😂
Nah, this one was perfect.
It's all good, I got permabanned years ago for getting drunk and making small helmets for my man parts. Apparently it violated certain policies. I didn't even have any friends to share it with.
I meant big helmets. Huge, stupendous and definitely larger than average 😉
I narrowed down my facebook friends to 7 or 8 which include my partner and my daughter. I use it to send messages and never bother with it any more. I think facebook is speech police so why bother. No more jokes okay?. Nothing is funny anymore.😊
I kind of doubt a real human ever sees even the appeals. It's algorithms all the way down, and badly programmed ones at that that have no logic whatsoever and just match words or maybe word combinations.
At any rate, I totally understand your annoyance: I feel the same way. It's unfortunate because as much as we all dislike Zuck and his company, there is some value in having a place where we can easily connect with all family members and old friends.
I rarely go on FB anymore. The algorithms are annoying, not just the banning ones but the ones that pick what to show on our feed. Probably mostly due to the algorithms it seems like so many people on the service are angry and looking for a fight about everything, so that keeps me away too. I'd rather a positive place. Like Hive!
!PIMP
You must be killin' it out here!
@dbooster just slapped you with 5.000 PIMP, @riverflows.
You earned 5.000 PIMP for the strong hand.
They're getting a workout and slapped 2/2 possible people today.
Read about some PIMP Shit or Look for the PIMP District
Congratulations @riverflows! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s):
You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOPCheck out the last post from @hivebuzz:
Fuck Facebook! Fuck Zuck! Fuck.. wait?😒 I post all my stories in FB.🤔 Let's just hope they don't see this.😉