Welp, many have asked what the heck happened and wondering where I have been. I have been right here - posting away - only, facebook has decided to not show anyone my posts. Well, thats not true - they are showing a select few my posts but nothing like my reach was before.
So what in the world did I do?
A quick timeline
July 11th - I posted a Hunter Biden meme in the comments of a post and well - it was funny. It wasn't anything questionable. It was all over twitter - and no matter what side of the aisle you stand on - it was FUNNY. But within seconds it was flagged, deleted and I was restricted. I appealed and was met with a notice saying “sometimes we make mistakes - your account is no longer restricted”
But it still showed that t was.
Anyway - I didn't think too much of it as my reach was the same, I could still go live and run ads. All the normal things. I kinda laughed it off on my wall and carried on as per usual.
With 13 days left to go I posted this……
That's it - that's the post.
I opened facebook a few minutes later and was met with “your post goes against our community standards for promoting violence”
Yes, apparently THAT post promoted violence. I can see how the bots would get that as they cannot decipher sarcasm. And they probably drive the new little broncos….. I mean - just guessing here. But that was july 27th and I was immediately blocked from posting to my wall for a day, couldn't post to my groups for 3 days, and my restriction went from 13 days left to 60. Including suppressing my posts in my groups as well as my wall.
Many were all - well, how bad could it be?
On the left you see a random post from prior to any restriction
On the right, what my post reach has been like since the restriction
Guys, they did me dirty.
I had no option to appeal.
But, I have a creator account which is why I can see my insights and reach - so I contacted creator support. Where you get a real live person. While she was very nice - there wasn't anything SHE could do about my restriction. She gave me links to where I could fill out forms, contact other real humans at facebook. None of them were even met with a response.
So I sat and did my time. I got creative with reaching my people for various things in my groups, my customers, my clients…..
Two days ago my restriction was lifted BUT I went from a red restricted account status to now a yellow warning status. And it will last, from my research,
A YEAR!
I have again sent various emails and messages all over to meta….. none have been met with a reply.
Time to get creative again I guess.
If you are on facebook and missing my posts - click that button above to be taken to my blogpage. I will be there posting all my normal wall posts until something gets figured out. I will still attempt to post to my wall but lord almighty they are not making it easy on me.
I won't sit here and complain and say but I see SO MANY violations - like REAL violations on countless accounts and nothing is done about it - or say I in some way feel targeted
( tho I did just type all that out loud didn't I?)
I am just going to carry on however I can. You can find me always up in my stories on instagram >MY PERSONAL INSTAGRAM<, I copy them to facebook (not that many see them) and I will be on my page and in here - in my blogletter - emailing you fine people to catch everyone up on personal stuff that I won't post to my page. Thats the thing about pages - I can't block my haters from seeing stuff - I can only block them from commenting. So - things I want to share with a limited audience - will be in here - everything else on my page.
Now that we have all that out of the way…. and you have all the links to follow my page and instagram and well, you are already here too!
What have you missed int eh past couple of months?
My grandson turned TWO you guys! My daughter started 8th grade. My son is doing fantastic. Hubs is doing great (tho I blame his sarcasm for my jailing) Business and life is extremely hectic! I thrive in chaos but I complain about it - fact is, I wouldn't know what to do if I was bored. I have had loads to say about world happenings and news in my stories. and well - now that you have all the places and links to find me - follow along for more!
Maybe this is all just the universes way of making me stay consistent with this blog letter and my actual blog. Trying to see the silver linings here people.
Oh and - Ang (if you are new here - hubs name is Angelo - no I do not speak about myself in third person - lol) and I have a few things up our sleeves…. stay tuned -my personal newsletter subscribers will be the first to hear t all - so if you are not signed up to receive that - >sign up here<
If you made it this far…..
thank you for being here - more to come - lots more,
with love,
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