I was suddenly banned from Facebook because I was in the same group where someone had violated their terms.
I found this very odd because I was still getting posts from my usual contacts but couldn’t get into their posts.
We tried to find out why and were sent codes to use, but which said they were not recognised when we put them in.
Eventually we found a contact and they asked me to send my 'photo.
I was immediately reinstated. No explanation or apology.strong text
If I didn’t want to keep up with several contacts, I would not have bothered.
Facebook is appalling and I wonder if anyone else has had this happen to them?
Ther are many posts from other people who have also been treated in this cavalier way.
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One of my BIL has been in fessbook jail so many times they leave the doors open for him now. He always comes back.
FB is pants these days - just full of posts from groups the “think I might like”.
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Just set up a group chat in whatsapp.
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That presupposes that all the members of the group can/want to use WhatsApp.I can’t for example (not that I’m a member of Jane’s group of course!)
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Err well yes, but farce book is just so amazing no one could possibly look at any other option.
Sorry for the sarcasm its just partbof my make up, genetic.
Indeed, though it’s much better on the desktop with the Fluff busting purity plugin.
One of my posts that I follow is Lancaster Past and Present, only on Facebook.
Ahh that’s different to just a few friends group.
I find FB useful for staying in touch with friends and also photographer colleagues who refer work to each other, but I agree it’s a bit rubbish otherwise.
I am a member of a few local groups which are consistently spammed by fake accounts offering “£250 ASDA voucher for your school” come-hithers, which FB always says “do not contravene our posting guidelines” if you report them.
I am (reluctantly) on WhatsArse because my local business networking group uses it, but otherwise I can;t see the point. Why not send someone an email?
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I agree entirely, that’s the only reason I am there. But I have a different story, mysteriously I found that I have not 1 but 3 different accounts there. No explanation so I choose to use the one with the best photo of me. 
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You know you are getting old when Facebook offers you a list of people who you may recognise… and they are all dead.
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not FB, but our local Press… when they’re reminiscing and showing old photos… and I’m realising how many of those people aren’t “with us” anymore…
There are so many people on Lancaster etc. And you can look and see what interests you. 7
I do get some interesting stuff on FB, and disregard the rest. There was a time when I was banned because I was scrolling too fast and therefore I must have been a robot.
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With your username that’s unbelievable!
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Too true. I have a barmy habit of saying, “Green, like Sugden” every time I happen to say the word ‘green’. I’ve been doing this for 60 years.
This came about from Sgt. Maj Ashworth, at the firing position on the shooting range, seeing someone hold aim for too long say, “Come down lad, come down. Relax. Look at something green, like Sugden”.
But I discovered a few weeks ago that Sugden had come off his aim permanently. I have a funny feeling now, when I come out with “Green, like Sugden”
In my family we have a saying when anyone asks what time we are going to get somewhere - “Soon, like Kind Dog’s Birthday”.
It baffles anyone else who hears it, but it’s a quote from one of Angela Banner’s “Ant and Bee” children’s books, where a character called Kind Dog is having a birthday - it teaches small children about the days of the week:
Does anyone else remember those? 
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Don’t stop saying it…
these phrases and words from our past are “proof of existence…”
OH and I share/mutter strange phrases, which mean nothing to anyone else… but to us, they make us smile and remember where they came from…
happy memories 
I have removed Facebook from my PC. I was a recent member of a motorcycle forum and had 3 consecutive posts banned, so I contacted the administrators to ask why. The reply was that they had no control over content and all content was scanned by Meta for bad words. They thought that I’d abreviated Richard for ‘Rich’ and I’d described an exhaust backfire as a ‘bang’. Welcome to the world of AI.
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