I think Facebook sees the bankruptcy of BedBathandBeyond as a big opportunity to make a killing on selling a gazillion fraudulent ads for close out sales that are all frauds.
Facebook is still publishing fake ads linked to fraudulent websites claiming to be close out sales ads for Bed Bath and Beyond which went bankrupt months ago. Why is Facebook still promoting this fraud by continuing to publish these ads?
Censorship, and the algorithms that do it, are alive and well at Facebook. And the special features of Facebook, especially the bots and trolls they let prey on us, of course have absolute freedom to function. And don’t forget all of the ads, for guns, holsters, high capacity magazines, survivalist fatigue fashions, jingo tee shirt, etc. that grace its threads and bombard us all with unwanted advertising.
Facebook invited me and a small group of people to participate in a survey. The first question asked me to quantify how valuable I find the content on Facebook. As with so many surveys, the possible answers were too limited and fixed that of all the possible answers in their multiple choice list of answers for the first question there was not one answer that got anywhere near to what I would have answered. So, I didn’t try to do the survey.
The other day I hid an ad on Facebook from Purina because I believe Purina cat food caused my two cats to die from kidney failure when the corporation was using product manufactured in China that contained ethylene glycol. For that reason I will never buy another Purina product again. Today Facebook sent me another ad from Purina. How’s that for stopping ads after reporting it and removing all ads from this advertiser?
When I report an ad on Facebook and I click on “why am I seeing this ad” and there is another link that says “how can I change my ad preference”, that’s where Facebook tells me that nothing I do will change the ads that it puts on my feed.
When I hide an ad on Facebook and I get a message that says “We won’t show you this ad again” it is has often not been true as ads from this company have reappeared later. It’s sometimes not true but it is not good enough. If I report and ad I don’t want to see ANY MORE ADS FROM THAT COMPANY, not just that particular ad. Because, otherwise, what’s the point of “reporting ads”?
The other day I was having a back and forth discussion with another Facebook user. It was an amicable exchange. I presented my views to try to correct what I thought was the misunderstanding and skewed perception of the other user. We enjoyed a few volleys back and forth but then, apparently, Facebook cut me off because, I assume, Facebook didn’t like what I was saying. I got an “error, something went wrong” message and the conversation was abruptly ended by Facebook. This has happened to me several times over the last few years. When Zuckerberg talks about preserving the right of free speech, he doesn’t bother to mention how he prevents it.
There are more than two things bug me about Facebook but these are the two that are on my mind currently:
Facebook, at times, seems to censor content that it does not want to be published. Facebook allows all kinds of hateful, anarchistic, inflammatory, divisive, and propagandistic content on its platform. But it cannot seem to tolerate certain discussions between individuals having a civil argument. I find that very strange indeed.
The other thing, which is unrelated, about Facebook that really bugs me is that it shoves all of these tons of advertisements down our throats but give us NO WAY to opt out of this barrage of this very often offensive advertising. In reporting ads, Facebook claims that we can change our settings. But it does not simply offer a way to opt out of advertisements.
In the last half hour I have hidden and reported about a dozen ads on Facebook for sniper rifles and a plethora of accessories for them and other sorts of various survival gear sets and gun paraphernalia.
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