Hello Friends,
I am hoping you will read this as it
will be how I interact on Facebook from now on and you might want to
get a few tips.
I have no idea what the big picture is
but I could make a few conjectures. However, I am going to leave that
up to you and just tell you what happened.
Someone put me into what seemed like a
totally benign, open group yesterday. It is an international group
that supposedly had a good reputation. One person asked what was a
simple question that no one was answering so I gave a really simple
2 line answer. It was, by-the-way, the correct answer.
Within minutes both I and the person
who asked and unknown parties were being attacked in the group. Now
whether they knew the person who asked the question, I don't know. I
do know they did not know me from Adam. The attacks were quickly
personal and I explained my experience, source of information and
that it was up to anyone to either take it seriously, research it or
toss it out but a little less ego would be a good thing. At no point
in this 2 sentence answer did I attack, defame or even appear
aggressive and you all know I can be. I wish I could access the
answer for you but I can't because.....
I exited the group, not wanting to
interact with these slightly crazy people ever again...I didn't say
that. I just unjoined with no reason given. Considering the size of
this group, I had doubted anyone would even notice my exit.
Within 10 minutes I could no longer
like, comment or share ANYTHING on my personal or commercial pages. I
have a totally private personal page and the same things applied. The
ticker on the right hand sidebar disappeared next, then all my
messages, friend requests and newsfeed comments. The only thing I was
able to do was update my status, which would just sit there. When I
tried to leave the page, it would ask if I was sure I wanted to do
that before the status was published. I could stay there all night
and nothing would happen but if I switched to my main page, there
would be the update, published.
I would think the incidents were
unrelated except for one thing. I could still manage to access my
groups and pages and lo and behold, I was back in the group. If I
ever manage, Facebook is trying to fix it, to get back on, I will
block that group and be looking for anyone trying be my friend with
connections to it.
I know as an administrator of my own
groups, it is easy to become overwhelmed and just open the group to
public membership when you start getting ten or more requests a day
or hour and you just don't have time to inspect them all. That is
human nature. That is also what someone expects you to do. Now they
can insert all trolls and the next thing you know, you don't
recognize your group and things like what just happened to me happen
to you and your members.
There is no one on Facebook who can
safeguard your privacy except you. I have always left things open as
I don't publish anything I don't expect to be on the front page of
the newspaper today. I know there is no privacy.
However, I will exit all groups except
a couple of Farmville groups when this is fixed. I will lock my pages
down and you will no longer have access to a lot of things. The
Friends that I know share the same religion and interests will be
invited to my private page...everyone else is blocked.
I am simply too old to play games,
except Farmville and Farm Town. Yes, I have a lifetime of
information, experience and study which I have always given freely to
anyone who asked as long as I wasn't going to screwed by it.
Obviously, that day has gone.
I suggest everyone go through every
group and page they no longer visit and remove it. As long as the
connection to the group exists, the people in the group can connect
to you. Then, start paying close attention to that little world next
to the post button. Control who can see your posts. Go into your
privacy settings and make certain no one can share your posts but
you. That means in order to share the cute kitty picture you are
probably going to have to go to the source to get it. It will be
blocked at my end.
I would tell you what I think of this
but it would violate several obscenity laws. This is the third time
this has happened to me. The third time is charm.
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