Facebook Problems?

avvie

Yep also been extended till the 17th May and no reply's to appeals. I wouldn't mind so much if they just had the decency to tell me what i had done

wonderwallet

I've got the sharing pages ban but have been sharing comp posts today and keep getting a security check popup every time I press share which asks me to fill in a captcha - anyone else getting this? Think I'd better stop sharing before they place even more restrictions on me!! :eek:

cinders59

yes I have had the security on sharing and that is when i started getting the bans

LadyMorticia

Maybe someone should contact the news...they might get a better response out of Facebook than we have been able to!

BenhamsLC

They have a twitter page https://twitter.com/facebook so have asked them also now banned till the 17th

cinders59

BenhamsLC wrote: »

They have a twitter page https://twitter.com/facebook so have asked them also now banned till the 17th

me too did it a few hours ago but not had a response

Zanzib

wonderwallet wrote: »

I've got the sharing pages ban but have been sharing comp posts today and keep getting a security check popup every time I press share which asks me to fill in a captcha - anyone else getting this? Think I'd better stop sharing before they place even more restrictions on me!! :eek:

I had that yesterday. Got no response to my telling them why their share block was wrong. They blocked that share but allowed me to do it a couple of hours later.

But every time I posted something after that it was a couple of hours before it appeared on my page and news feed.

One post- newspaper item with the latest trailer for the new Star Wars film- they didn't post at all, even though it showed as having gone through okay on my screen.

This is only happening on my personal page, not the ones I manage.

No ban yet, but the way it's going I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't next...

MimiJane

Yet another here - extended 'til 17/5. What the hell's going on??

spursfan1106

I thought it was just me! Got a ban a couple of days ago also got an extension to the 17th today! Feel a little better that im not alone in this but its still annoying though :mad:

Phantasma

Also been banned and subsequently extended until 17th. Messaged them twice and no response. In terms of 'effect of comping', it's not really that huge as I like so many pages already there won't be *that* many competitions I can't enter. Stopping me liking/commenting on posts would have been much more effective. I avoid sharing competitions where it's optional, i.e. the 'share box' that appears at the end of many, as that's quite a quick way to get banned from previous experience, but I do share posts where the competition asks for it.

I'm not sure if this is a 'glitch' or a deliberate action - how many people who don't enter any competitions do people know of who have been banned? But if Facebook don't want people to enter competitions, they need to target the organisers of them and stop them running them - but of course they won't, as I'm sure most of them contribute heavily to their profits.

And that's what all of this has really brought home to me - the change in Facebook to an 'evil corporation'. I guess I knew it was happening, but hadn't seen the reality of it until now. To ban people with no explanation and enter in no communication on the matter is dictatorial in the extreme. But of course, they have so much power, that they can actually do whatever they like; what am I going to do, delete my account? Even if I do, what do they care, I'm not even a drop in the ocean, nor are compers as a collective. With billions of private users and every company having a presence, the users now need Facebook more than Facebook needs its users, barring a mass exodus in the billions, which won't be happening any time soon.

I don't remember them asking me if it was alright to post sponsored links on 'my' timeline, or use my cookies to target advertising at me. They really can pretty much do what they want. And as users, we actually just have to suck it up - or go back to MySpace :-)

I'm not whining about it, they can treat me as they choose, and I can be their user or not, it's my choice. It's just quite a sobering thought to realise what a faceless(how ironic) dictatorial entity they have become.