People Need to Stop Using Facebook for Primary Communication

I used to have a Facebook account. I had the account for at least 10 years, but I'm pretty sure that I started a Facebook account sometime in 2008, and considering that it is 2020 right now I'll just say for the sake of argument that I had one for the past 12 years.

For some undisclosed reason, other than "Not Following Community Standards", Facebook or someone at Facebook took it upon themselves to permanently disable my account recently. Facebook, is under no obligation to care whether or not "YOU" mean anything to any single one of its users, and so they simply delete your account, all of your memories and things you shared with your friends and your family, and then they move on and you never hear another word about it.

There are many reasons why the Facebook policies that call for doing this are wrong, and I am not even going to bother too much at trying to convince anyone of this. But I will say that it seems that Facebook does not feel like its users should determine who they will and will not put up with on their platform, and take it upon themselves to remove people for violations that most users probably aren't even aware of.  I know I wasn't aware of the one that I'm sure they used to justify permanently disabling my account, not until after they did it at which point I read the community standards trying to figure out what could have caused them to do this.

So what happens if Facebook disables the account of someone that other users on Facebook actually want to hear from and want to keep up with? Facebook doesn't care about that a single bit. They don't care what you think about it or how you feel about it, and quite frankly, it's none of your business because its their platform and if you don't like it, by all means, go somewhere else.

That has to be the worst customer service model I've seen in my lifetime, and it tells me a lot about their company, its employees, its CEO, and its outside advisors who help them create their policies. A site built on getting people to use their site to interact with other people, owned and operated by people who don't care about other people; now there's something I never thought would have grown into a company as large as Facebook has grown into. 

It is no shock however in the grand scheme of things, because decent human beings rarely acquire as much money as Mark Zuckerberg has, and I'm not absolutely implying that this proves that he's not a good person, but it certainly raises a flag and makes me wonder. If I had to base that assessment on Facebook's policies however, I'll just say that their policies regarding permanently disabling accounts are a direct reflection of the person in charge of enforcing them, and that certainly doesn't leave much room for respect in my opinion of Facebook's CEO.

I had a lot of people on my friends' list on Facebook, I managed pages and groups, and I put unfathomable amounts of time into building what I had there. I even paid for ads and was a verified ID user. None of that, not the time I had spent on Facebook, not the money I had put into Facebook, not the amount of content I had there for people or the number of likes and comments on any of it, none of that played a part whatsoever in the decision to permanently disable my account or to do it without so much as the decency to explain why. Not that "why" is anywhere even close to justified, because I have a good idea "why" they did it, and the punishment for doing it just doesn't fit the "crime".

If this ever happens to you, you will have a better understanding of what people in my situation are having to deal with, as most people who use Facebook on a daily basis have become so dependant on it for everything they do that involves other people. Ask yourselves this question though, "Do you think that the power to permanently disable someone's Facebook account should be something held by the CEO of the company, or should that be better determined by the people using the Facebook platform?"

What if the person they disabled was someone whom other people liked? What if the person they disabled was someone that other people depended on for things that were very important?

Wouldn't it be a better policy to inform the person in question that they had violated the terms and explain to them why, and give them a chance to correct the issue rather than just permanently "disappearing" them?  And instead of just disabling their account in a worst case scenario, why not just disable all of their posting ability and leave their viewing access, that way they could still see all the content they had posted in the numerous years prior to the incident. They could still see all of their friends' posts, including their friends and family who are now deceased and can never be sent another friend request. 

I've had numerous people tell me, "Just make another account." You can't "just make another account" that is like the one that some robot or robot-like employee at Facebook disabled, because there are a lot of things that you had that you can never get back. My dad is one of them, and my aunt (my dad's sister), and numerous friends that are gone forever from this place we live in. I can't go to their pages and look at memories we shared over the years, all of that is gone.

What Facebook did to me, and I have no doubt that they have done to many others, is a shame. A company that treats anyone the way they treat some of their users doesn't deserve any users at all. They are lining their pockets with gold using your "you", all of your information and everything about you that makes you who you are, and their policies prove to me without a doubt that they don't care about how you feel about any of your friends or your families. They would do the same thing they did to me to any one of you in a split second, and never give it a second thought.

People need to find some other means to keep up with their friends and family members other than Facebook. Create a backup because you never know when this will happen to you. You're only one  line of programming code and one Facebook policy away from it.

Here is the video that I believe is the reason for them permanently disappearing me from their social network:

Let me know what you think if you would like; I mean do you feel like that video is a justified reason to permanently ban me so that the numerous people in my family have no way to contact me and I have no way to contact them?  My business page, and everything I had been working on for years, over this video...

It isn't likely to ever be nearly as big as Facebook, but I'm working on building a social media site to compete with Facebook because people need options, and Facebook needs to grow some customer support.

I write software and I do web design, but it is going to take me a while to get a site like that up and running. I'm open to having some help and I have some excellent ideas to make it a site that people will want to use.

First and foremost, people will be put ahead of profits on this site; each person will be more than just a number that owns a bank account. In addition, and unlike that other place, people will not be treated like trash, and this site will NOT have any Communist Standards or firing squads that execute unaware offenders of such, such as Fascistbook has. At least we know where the budget is that was originally allotted for their non-existent customer service department; that budget was obviously reassigned to the Gueststoppo and the firing squads.

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