Yeah, what he said. The brave New World of Meta is showing us things we wouldn’t look at unless they forced it on us. These are things we aren’t actually even interested in, but they think we should be interested in.
This includes the two geniuses that think it’s a great idea to make your dinner in your kitchen sinks. But of course, these are also the two geniuses who are then seen cleaning their toilets by stuffing it full of rolls of toilet paper and covering it with cheap kitchen sink detergent, and I don’t know what happened because I couldn’t watch that to the end. And then there was the Thanksgiving turkey prepped in the toilet, but I digress.
These ding- a-lings have a compatriot or kindred spirit who makes pasta fresh out of dried spaghetti. Because apparently wherever she lives, they don’t sell flour at the grocery store.
And these women for being domestic stupidity experts have millions, yes millions of viewers. Talk about the dumbing down of America.
Coming from Italian heritage both of these things are actually offensive to watch. And I doubt very much that Blondie with her super gelled fingernails learned how to make pasta out of dried pasta in Italy. Nor does Velveeta go in actual Italian pasta dishes.
Madonna santa!
But this, like flat Hal faced Easter Bunny costumes, gets clicks. And it’s just so freaking stupid. These women should be embarrassed, but they’re not, they’re counting their clicks on Facebook to buoy their virtual lives.
I will note I did not intentionally click on either of these videos. I was scrolling through my feed and it’s part of the things that just sort of pop up like my husband will ask me why are you playing that and I’m like I’m not playing anything deliberately I was scrolling past things on Facebook and Instagram.
Anyway, I just figured I would post my disgust of these two examples of “cooking.” and help them get more click bait.
OK so I got this notice recently saying that Facebook had removed a post from 2018. Yes, 2018. And then you can pull up like a screenshot of what they removed. What they removed was an article I had posted from 2018 about the naked bike ride in Philadelphia that I thought was funny. Think about it. I don’t know about the rest of you, but would you want to go around on your bicycle naked? I think it would hurt certain private parts.
But obviously some people enjoy a naked bike ride much the way they enjoy nude beaches. Which is something I did go to once briefly years ago (as in my early 20s) , and I didn’t understand that either. All I kept thinking is what if you get certain body parts sunburned, wow would that hurt.
And I’m not actually passing judgment on those who enjoy those things, I simply don’t understand them. But the article just tickled my funny bone and I shared it.
With loud cheers, thousands of nude and semi-naked cyclists took to the streets of Philadelphia on Sept. 8, 2018.
The occasion was the Philly Naked Bike Ride, a ten-year-old annual tradition in the City of Brotherly Love. The event has cyclists travel nearly ten miles from Fairmount Park into Center City. This year (like many in the past), the route included the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rittenhouse Square, City Hall, Broad Street, South Street, Independence Hall and Logan Square.
It’s a thing. It’s not my thing, it might not be your thing, but if they’re allowing it to go on on the streets of a major metropolitan city without incident, why is Facebook removing articles about it? Let alone removing an article in 2024 that was posted in 2018? I didn’t even remember I had posted it. It was that long ago.
Facebook has these random algorithms and I guess they look for keywords much the way the email review platforms do for compliance officers reviewing emails in financial institutions and other kinds of businesses. Of course that’s why your average compliance officer will tell you that is why they have to go through almost every email because the programming doesn’t necessarily get it right.
I remember many years ago when I was a bridesmaid in a wedding party. One day an email went out from the bride to be’s mother about where we were supposed to get pantyhose or spanx or something. Literally, it was one of those mama bridezilla occasions where you know you had to wear certain types of bras along with spanx underneath the baby butt pink Vera Wang bridesmaid’s gown. Quite literally it wasn’t the bride who was the problem, it was the momzilla. ( Sorry I don’t know what the correct phrases to describe when it’s the mother of the bride who is the issue not the actual bride.)
Anyway, this woman would send out emails to every email. She knew you had even if you weren’t supposed to get personal email if avoidable to corporate emails. So literally you would get an email and it was like the edict on high. And it was just as bad this time as the email which had proceeded it, which was telling us about trying a liquid diet for five days before her daughter’s wedding. So whatever the word was in this particular email, it got flagged by the compliance officer’s software in the brokerage branch I worked in, and I remember getting pulled into the office, and I wasn’t actually in trouble. The compliance officer was a very mellow practical dude, and he said “I just want you to see how ridiculous the word programming is for email review” and that was when I first learned about like the fact that these programs had like keywords that they would search out, and those words weren’t set by each individual compliance officer in a bigger corporation, they were set by corporate.
I think this is where Facebook kind of is or Meta or whatever the hell they call themselves these days and for what they do allow on Facebook versus even sharing a legitimate media outlet went against community standards. They allow multitude of conspiracy theories and all sorts of fake news like we saw during Covid and the last couple of presidential election cycles. Yet they removed this?
And again, it’s from 2018, which kind of gives you creepy insight as to how they are all crawling all over our personal pages and any other pages or groups we might belong to. It’s like they want to find something wrong to justify their existence yet when you report a Facebook profile for being taken over by spammer and it’s someone you know they don’t take down the profile and they don’t return the profile to the original owner.
Zuckerberg is a jackass. His baby will literally allow porn accounts with his algorithms, but they remove things like this. I actually went and Googled to get some proof of that because after all now you have to wonder if they scour your search history too? Look away if you don’t want to see. Actually, I didn’t really post anything truly offensive below, just enough to prove the point that these accounts exist on Facebook and they allow them but they take an article talking about a naked bike ride off of Facebook for going against “community standards.”
It’s like they allow spammers and hackers to pollute their social media site along with fake products from overseas for sale that if you order them they either never arrive or look nothing like what you saw on Facebook originally, but if you are just a regular person, sharing an article you saw on the news that you thought was funny that was real news and actually kind of benign they will ding you for it.
And to think people think they’re going to build their “business brand” via social media platforms like Facebook?
Facebook where light hooking is ok, but not articles from real news outlets. Thanks for stopping by.
Facebook/Meta/Instagram is making people crazy. Their artificial intelligence and algorithms and lack of human touch, or intelligence is staggering.
Yesterday, a lady I help with her group posted an article from a news source called VISTA Today, which is well known in our area. The algorithm police removed it. Said it was spam. The post she was trying to about a block party! Below is the link so you can see it for yourself.
As part of this lady’s admin team, I contested the removal because it wasn’t spam and it was germane to the geographical area of the group as in where it is located. Then I tried to post it again and then they removed my post and said it was spam.
Again, this is a share of a regional news blip talking about an upcoming community event. A block party that’s also in need of sponsors. Gosh, Meta/Facebook that’s terrible! Who on earth would want to read about a nonprofit event anyway? It’s much easier to see all the fake posts for duct cleaning and auto detailing and the post about the dog that I think has died in almost every region of the country at this point and oh, what’s the latest thing? Taking pictures of kids and saying they are missing when they’re not missing but those posts are OK. Our community ones are not?
That’s some kind of BS.
Facebook / Meta did this to me a while back with something else. I put a post up in a gifting group that I manage to apologize to people because they were getting weird almost Facebook ads within our group for other groups. We were not doing it and had no control.
Unbelievably, they labeled this post as “sexual exploitation.” I have been contesting this since December, because their algorithms and artificial intelligence took down a post that was pretty specific and fairly benign. It was an apology to our group members and they labeled it as something illegal and criminal.
But they allow how much cyber bullying and cyber harassment to go on? They don’t even keep kids safe? And since that whole thing exploded in the Great Valley School District, you have dumb kids whose parents aren’t educating them, mostly girls, who are just accepting random people into their Instagram , TikTok and Facebook accounts who are in middle school!
Here is what a friend said:
I work via a non-profit with some of the kids/families that know about this Great Valley mess. I want to share this quick story. I’d also like to start by saying I don’t think I’m a better smarter parent!
But this was weird and uncomfortable to see first hand…
I was visiting a family and one of the girls in middle school walked up to me and asked me if I’d heard about it. This is now NATIONAL news…maybe even international on some platforms if they’re really itching for a story. When I said I had, she opened up her TikTok, also her Instagram, and said she AND her friends were all blowing up. They have hundreds (maybe more) new strangers of all age and all genders following them. Some of the kids that even have changed their page to private are still accepting requests from people who “look ok” to gain higher numbers of likes or whatever. She messaged a few people who requested, that “looked ok” and was told she and others were found searching up different versions of the tags for the school, the district, etc.
There are hundreds of likes and comments on some of the videos still up or somehow related. Then people are even just adding others through that. I’m talking about kids not affiliated at all with the mess, and just dancing with sports team or school clubs or even at home.
My first thought was, “Oh crap…this could be really dangerous…” We’re flipping through what are meant to be harmless and cute videos and pics of kids in their swimsuits, shirts off, and light/skimpy clothing (because it’s summer and hot). Some of the songs are vulgar (I’m sure the kids don’t think much about that and just like the beat or whatever.) But my point is, that can invite some weirdos, perverts, or people who are just No Bueno.
Please consider sharing this story with your kids, remind them of strangers, and remind them to keep their info private or cross check to know that they know people who request them…or think before they make videos with friends at sleepovers or while they’re out. The world can be a crazy place..**Editing to add that I help/assist on occasion (indirectly affiliated) with those who have experienced trafficking in different ways (somewhat locally-don’t want to cause a huge commotion or deter from the basic point of the post)…but it’s a very real threat
The screenshot above is another that I’ve been challenging them on, that I was merely sharing something from a public page about yet another nonprofit event at that time. Again, the algorithms and artificial intelligence deemed it a threat. How are nonprofit events in your own community a threat? What is so broken about their algorithms and artificial intelligence that they can’t see what something is about?
Why is it you can’t ever get a real person to respond to you?
I clicked on some of their rules when asking for a review recently of one of these posts. This is what they said which had zero to do with the community events posts that had been shared and removed. Note what I am sharing:
And these posts are removing that they say are going against cyber security, and things like that are not bad. And this is happening to everyone. I’m just pointing out the couple of examples were I’ve experienced the craziness and you can request a review, but nobody ever gets back to you.
It’s a broken hamster wheel.
It’s like all my friends who have gotten their Facebook accounts hacked. Some of them were never able to get their Facebook accounts back and a few ended up deleting them somehow because otherwise, a stranger had all their photos and memories. My sister had this happen with her Instagram account and she’s careful with her passwords. She lost an account that had precious memories she will never get back. And Meta/Instagram never got back to her.
Now speaking of Instagram, you know how they encourage us to make reels? And reels are like little mini videos of snippets of your life for those not familiar.
With regard to Instagram I don’t do things like use it to get dressed or undressed in front of you so you can see all the clothes I’m wearing. For me it’s usually garden or pets.
Instagram is literally for me away to connect with friends and family and I keep it small. I also will do things like share my cooking because I like to do that. But I’m not a wannabe influencer so you don’t have dozens of little reels of me with food falling out of my mouth in restaurants. Or looking like a fireplug wrapped in bad Lilly Pullitzer.
But what did Instagram do? They took down two little reels that are memories I have of pets who died. And why did they take it down? For some kind of copyright infringement of music they allowed in their library of music choices. I’m truly bummed out about this because they are memories of my pets of the past and it’s cruel. But again you can’t get anyone to get back to you.
It’s absolutely maddening. You can not use foul language and post benignly and your stuff gets removed, yet you have people vomiting all over these social media platforms with literally fake news and pornography and all sorts of other things.
I’m beginning to wonder if social media is worth it? I mean in some regards it is because you can stay connected to people in your life who don’t live close by, but then you have all the other issues plus the psychology of social media where people can’t post honestly, they post fake lives.
But I do think it is completely crazy what they say is ok versus what they remove. And their customer service is a joke.
Welcome to the land of malcontents and trolls… A.K.A. Facebook. As I turn 60, I marvel at these people.
This post captured in a screenshot appeared most recently on a public page that pretends to be local but is run literally by people from other parts of the country who have never lived here. It’s mostly a sounding board for people who hate pretty much everything that’s not them or the cult of Donnie.
So do they think that I am going to pull the covers over my head and cry? Have they met me ? Oh wait, they wouldn’t have because I don’t know people like this.
I figure he likes posting my picture, so perhaps I should post his? After all, it’s public on his Facebook page with a weird mouth inserted, probably to make him harder to identify? I figured that’s a valid question to ask given the posts that I have seen that he puts up that are well, somewhat offensive.
So that screenshot that opens this post is from this guy. The other day, he posted it in multiple places. Odd and obsessive about me yet I never knew he existed until the other day.
His behavior is not normal, it’s harassing. He is supposedly upset because I had written about the plight of the neighbors adjacent to the Brickette Lounge in West Chester. then he took issue with the fact that I was posting about the door-to-door salesman from Eco Shield Pest Solutions .
Eco Shield has aggressive sales people. When they were in my neighborhood I had to point out to them that I had posted no soliciting. Tall guy in the photo waived some permit thing he was wearing. I told him that didn’t matter that if I had posted no soliciting, and if he proceeded onto our property, it was legally trespassing. And then I asked him who he was working for. Three times I asked him what company he was working for, and he refused to answer.
So as he was wandering more around my neighborhood, I took his photo and the little guy he was with and I sent it to my township and what came back was the following from our local police department:
The group EcoShield does not have permits and were turned down for improper credentials.
Then the police actually cited sales people going door-to-door from this company the following day I think it was and one person they stopped was using credentials for another municipality a fair distance away. Also important to note that these guys are not local. All of these discoveries were made by a local police department, yet the troll blamed me.
Oh and the troll didn’t like what I said about the Brickette parking situation. Their patrons were parking so horribly (and dangerously) that West Whiteland had to put up a slew of “No Parking” signs for Kirkland and start ticketing. West Whiteland also went to PA for state “No Parking” signs for Route 100.
Route 100 or Old Pottstown Pike or whatever you want to call it shouldn’t need state signs for no parking, it should be common sense. But it wasn’t.
It was not me that caused West Whiteland to do the “No Parking” signs jam, neighbors went to meetings and stood up and spoke to the township officials and asked for help. They all said they didn’t mind the idea of the Brickette , because they had all been living with it even under prior ownership. But they pointed out that under prior ownership, they didn’t park up the neighborhood streets and leave trash, etc.
But this troll blamed me. And when I asked him why he was posting my face like wanted posters on social media, that it was harassment he said I was stalking him. And harassing him—yes pretzel logic: asking why he was in fact harassing me I was harassing him and stalking him because I asked on the page where I first became aware of his behavior who he was and where he came from because I didn’t know until that point he existed that I was stalking him.
Yes for real. I kept the screenshots. And his buddy another Trumpian misanthrope has to mention my “crazy Karen eyes” and that if I am blocking them he will ban me from a group that I left…and blocked them.
Oh and then the guy who claims that I am the bad bunny announces how he has been looking into me although he admits that I am not a public figure.
Yep pretty creepy. But I am the bad bunny, apparently. And who knew? I’m also a Karen. I had no idea the tribe that gives Karens shelter wanted me to count among them?
Anyway I am making this public because I reject this harassment of me for no reason other than a troll doesn’t like my opinions. I mean gosh if we went through what he posts everywhere I am sure our eyes would cross right?
I’m so tired of these people. It’s like no other opinions can exist other than what they are comfortable with. He also mentioned that I should help people, because according to him I need to and don’t. (Also good to know.)
In case you are wondering why we need to live more in a world that is balanced and not full of hate and creepiness, this is a good reason. I don’t know about you but the idea of living in a world where January 6th becomes like a twisted Groundhog Day is rather unappealing. And Facebook still does nothing much about these people, yet they have AI that will remove posts for words they find suspicious in benign posts.
Facebook jail. It is one of the great mysteries of life. They will allow political commentary including before the January 6 insurrection that should be removed, they will allow cyber bullies and cyberstalkers, but then there’s Facebook jail.
My friend Lisa is a brilliant writer, and also as funny as hell. I think she has Facebook jail frequent flyer miles by now. Every time you turn around they’re putting her in Facebook jail and I don’t really understand why. I don’t think anybody really understands why, it’s like they do it on purpose.
My gardening blog (as in the outside website) ended up in Facebook jail for months during the pandemic. It was because of the title which is “the nightgown gardener”. Apparently it was the nightgown of it all, which is pretty funny if you know me, because racy will never be a descriptive adjective applied to me.
It was very frustrating because they allowed me to have a Facebook page that corresponds with the blog which was fine in the category of home and gardening page that goes with a gardening website. Yet it took months before they reversed their decision. And you can’t speak to anyone from Facebook, not even one of those messenger chats that a lot of websites allow for customer service. You can’t contact a live person if you are being harassed or stalked, either. You just can’t ever reach anyone period.
They have these weird, truthfully fakakta, algorithms. A friend of mine ran into it yesterday when she was trying to list, wait for it, Christmas ornaments. Of course that worked out for me because they are the kind of ornaments I collect for my tree so I bought them when she posted that she couldn’t post about them. But how does this even make sense? They are mercury glass you can’t say mercury. And if you say blown glass I guess they think they’re a little itty bitty bongs or something?
And then there was that moment during the election season where I called a super Trumper anti-vaxxer or anti-masker pig ignorant. I wasn’t put in Facebook jail per se, but I was warned. And have they seen the things that people say on Facebook and that’s what they catch and make an issue out of? I mean I don’t really care I just found it more amusing than anything else. when you think of the sheer volume of fake news that we saw Facebook allowed to be posted during this election season alone, it kind of just is mine blowing isn’t it?
So then there is my friend Beth who spends as much or more time in Facebook jail than my friend Lisa. She has breast cancer, brain tumors, and something that is like MS. Also funny as hell. But hey, she’s a threat to humanity somehow.
Now I have to ask since I am talking about Facebook jail will I be punished or thrown in Facebook jail? Am I living dangerous posting Facebook jail memes?
We all try to occasionally figure out the great mystery of life known as Facebook. How their algorithms work, why people who don’t deserve Facebook jail get Facebook jail, and why people who are completely off of their rockers rock on wandering around Facebook.
The algorithms are a mystery. Now given my former corporate life which included e-mail review, they obviously have software which seeks out and reacts to certain words. Corporate e-mail software set up for compliance purposes will trigger on everyday words like “bra” and I guess Facebook does this too? The only thing is in companies who do e-mail review, if an e-mail gets snagged for review there is an actual human being you can plead your case with. You can’t do that with Facebook. Can’t call them, you can’t email or message an actual person, all you can do is fill out their form thingy and hope someone reads it within the next few months.
I’m not trying to start a Facebook revolt, I’m not leaving Facebook, but I think they can do better. Unless of course this whole thing with algorithms in Facebook jail is just like a virtual reality of Zuckerberg’s beautiful mind so to speak? It just doesn’t make sense and really they can do better. I also feel like they do target certain people, and again I think it’s based upon an algorithm. But unless Zuckerberg is going for the whole Stepford Wives effect, I think he needs to find a better way.
