I shared one of my posts to Facebook the other day. I often used to do so, inviting friends and family to ‘see what I’m up to’.
Facebook informed me that it had been blocked as spam. It was the second time in as many months that they labeled one of my posts as spam, claiming something like, I was posting it or sharing it just to get likes.
The nerve.
This happened to be a Floofinition, one of my silly pursuits. Of course I was posting it on Facebook for likes. Why does Facebook think people post on their social media accounts? Likes is one of many reasons for sharing things on Facebook, but they used to encourage me to do just that.
I protested their unilateral condemnation of my post, but my protest is limited in scope to their pre-canned reasons for doing so. And those are flawed and incomplete. It assumes a set of paradigms which frankly just displays how fucking lost thy are. And after I completed that, I thought, I never heard anything back from them about that one last month.
No, you never do. They reach out like some hidden Gods, do their thing, and then watch us like we’re ants running around after their anthill is damaged.
That pissed me off.
The clincher came the next day. It was like, “Michael, here’s a memory of something you posted before! Share it to remind others.” So sweet. So friendly.
And yeah, it was one of my floofinitions. Like the one they condemned as spam and removed for being posted to get likes.
Well, fuck you, Facebook. I’m done with you and your capricious two-faced arrogance. They are already a repository of right-wing memes and misinformation, so they were treading on my last nerve before. I know, they’re quivering back at Meta headquarters, wailing that they’ve alienated me and lost my support. “Oh, boo hoo. We lost Michael. Woe is us.”
That’s okay. It makes me feel better. Just as their community used to do. It’s like they say, the more things change, the more they go to shit.
Michael Seidel, writer 
Hi Michael. Some people say Facebook is toxic and I agree with that. I so many years ago I lost count signed on to Facebook to preserve my favorite screen name, and then promptly put the account into standby or what every they call it. Twice over the years Facebook has contacted me demanding I show them I still was alive as others wanted my screen name. I did but then never went back to the site. Ron has an account on Facebook but he checks it so rarely he might as well not be there. It was one of the ways my hell spawn abusers used to contact us and keep tabs. The last time they tried was after hurricane Ian when one of them kept asking if we took damage … but we knew it was not concern for our safety but to take joy in our misfortune. He ignored them. Ron believes in real evil, I believe they absorbed the training of their parents who adopted and made me an object of abuse. I don’t know if to hate them or pity them. I simply choose not to care. Hugs. Scottie
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