Another Kafkaesque Facebook Situation
Five Days Unable To Post In Facebook Groups - No Explanation
Introduction
Two days ago, I got the above warning when posting in groups that I administer or am a moderator in. I can post on threads and on my own timeline, but that is it.
I have been doing what I do for years, so I let them know.
What Else
I thought I would check my profile and got this:
So that looks all good.
Then I checked extras and got this:
No issues there either.
So What Is The Problem?
Another Kafkaesque Facebook situation. I have done something wrong (spamming, according to them) but they have not replied and have given me no option to rectify the situation.
I don't know if this will be resolved. There are workarounds, but I probably won't be able to wish anyone a happy birthday. Basically any direct interaction by me is considered spam by Facebook.
I just have to hope it will be rectified.
Then Grammarly does this to me:
And then this got rejected by Vocal for using the word Kafkaesque in the title. I removed it then re-added once published.
And this was because the first line was emojis
Conclusion
Thank you for reading. This has been a public service announcement and critique of Facebook.
"The Fun Lovin' Criminal" by The Fun Lovin' Criminals seems an appropriate accompaniment to this piece.
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Comments (9)
Facebook is a forest which needs to be cleansed and restarted. It has gotten to be too much for me. I barely go visiting there anymore...hope to get better at it though. Scary stuff, hope it gets resolved soon.
Good grief mate! My other life has been all consuming so I missed this on FB. Such frustration! I did note some spam warnings on the admin. site but never dally into those type of issues, meaning I leave such up to you or Annie who seem more technically inclined. As for other languages, Mérde!
I've got the 'language other than English' story-not-approved thing as well even though my entire piece was in English and in the tone I usually use to write. Either they haven't been reading past stories that get approved and are just starting to now (with people who can't understand them) or the software they are using for not reading them via human power is broken and they haven't realised.
I'm sorry you have to deal with all this. Super annoying! It's very strange that Vocal didn't accept the word 'kafkaesque.' I once published a poem titled with a word that doesn't have any meaning in English (the poem itself is in English, of course), and I was prepared to change the title had it been a problem. But the story was accepted with no issues.
Facebook is becoming more weird by the day, last time I couldn't post on my own page because I am doing suspicious activity... let's blame it on the Mercury retrograde lol
What a cascade of calamities! Courage, Mikeydred: shiny, futuristic tech is still run by fallible, often foolish humans!
And the idiotic Grammarly, a piece of software I will never use, perhaps someone has to add to its limited vocabulary the word "happy."
This is more than an issue on Facebook, Vocal, or the idiotic Grammarly (I never used it and will never use it). This is an example of how little by little humans are submitting to the algorithms and all the AI that soon will take over everyone's life, making all the decisions, and setting all the rules we will all have to follow in order to function in the world. An algorithm doesn't differentiate between spam and someone real simply being active on a platform. Interestingly, the algorithms require you to be active to remember you exist. I was away from Vocal for a while, as you know. Now I feel like I am starting over because it seems like the algorithm has forgotten about me and shows my stories to virtually almost no one, not even the people who used to read me before. This what is happening to you is an example of what will happen more and more often going forward and to many or most of us. Did you get a response from a human or from a chatbot?
Facebook and Grammarly are both drunk. Hope the issue would be rectified soon