Why I deactivated my Facebook page

The beneath remark, which comes from somebody impersonating my public-facing verified web page, seems beneath each single submit I put up at Fb:

I child you not, this has been occurring for not less than three full years, perhaps longer.

I all the time reported the account, reported the remark and blocked the person who positioned it – and the pretend web page they’d created – however my submission of those stories would go completely nowhere. Into skinny air. No response from Fb. No try and cease extra of them from sprouting up. No effort in anyway and no motion. So the very subsequent submit I’d put up, one hour later or one week later, an an identical remark from an an identical impersonator would seem. Additionally scamming folks with some type of pretend supply for crypto foreign money (in fact it’s crypto. Not everybody who’s concerned in crypto is a thief, however each thief is concerned in crypto).

You might set your watch by it – submit, submit, submit, pretend remark, pretend remark, pretend remark, block, block, block. I’d block the person and report the remark repeatedly and nothing would occur. Different folks – followers, followers, my coworkers – would report and block them too. For nothing. It by no means stopped, up til and together with my final submit.

And what’s loopy is that these feedback seem beneath my work robotically, inside a second of its posting. That’s how there’s a software program program doing this. Which suggests they’re doing numerous it, which suggests the platform ought to have the ability to shut it down, en masse, by way of no matter API this bot farm has entry by means of. However they gained’t. As a result of it’s both benefiting them indirectly or they don’t give a shit.

Take into consideration how straightforward it might be to black label all feedback with “BTC” in them and let the authors and verified creators approve the wrongly gatekept ones whereas auto-deleting the scams. They may write that program in sooner or later and cease all of those frauds and honeypots chilly.

This technique of report-n-block has been repeated by me (and others visiting my web page) dozens and dozens of occasions. To no avail. As a result of Fb’s engagement stats are themselves a rip-off and their “security” initiatives are a smoke display.

The truth is that Meta stories the exercise of bots and pretend accounts as if they’re lively customers to glamour their advertisers and juice the numbers for Wall Avenue. They usually speak about security simply to close their European critics the f*** up to allow them to proceed to rake in advert {dollars} and function as they please. The Mark Zuckerbot cares much less about security than you care about at present’s cricket scores for the Indian Premier League.

And It’s okay, I’m not mad about it, I simply don’t wish to take part anymore. So I deactivated my public-facing Fb web page and I can’t return till I’ve cause to consider that creators and their followers are being protected.

I don’t know what number of silly folks have engaged with this remark from my web page and others through the years. I couldn’t inform you what number of {dollars} have been wired to or stolen by no matter dirtbag individual or entity is behind it. I can’t even guess at a quantity. But when it’s even one greenback, it’s one too many. Fb may have and will have disabled scams like these years in the past. For some cause, they haven’t.

So I’m out. I can’t stand by and contribute to this anymore.

And, to be trustworthy, it’s a simple resolution for me as a result of I’m not a Fb person anyway. Every part I’ve posted there has gone by means of Buffer, our social media supervisor. The one cause to ever go to precise Fb.com is to attempt to block crypto scams from my feedback or reconnect the Buffer account at any time when Meta makes an API change. My associates don’t submit there. I don’t submit there. I don’t care about something that goes on there. I actually don’t depend on it for information. I don’t wish to join with (or take into consideration) folks from the previous. I’m not nostalgic for any of it. And I hate wishing random acquaintances a contented birthday. So what on earth would I be doing there?

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