Just a quick service announcement:
Within moments of his status update which included the word “bitch”, Piddles was found Facebook-less. His profile was down only for a couple minutes but it seems Facebook is cracking down on swearing. Thankfully he was back and running promptly when they read his post and realized he was actually referring to a female dog he had met earlier that day at the vet.
With a little Googling it seems piddles was not the only victim.
This phenomenon is allegedly new, based on a couple of my friends comments:
But I used to swear on my Facebook status all the time…
Tisk-Tisk Facebook, you’re putting the final nail in your own coffin. Censorship kills creativity and eventually any online application – no matter its Titanic appearance.
This stinks of concerned parents somewhere in the midwest.
At least Tom will be happy.
No swearing? Com’on! Whats next? Are they gonna start taking down all the pictures of people passed out in a pile of their own puke. That shit (see, I really feel I need to swear to fully express myself sometimes) is the entertaining part of a networking site that has been making poor choices in the change department for quite some time now. Facebook originally provided a space for people to create whatever image of themselves they felt necessary. And yeah, some people may have missed a job opportunity or date out of it (I recently changed my name to an alias) but thats their own fault and what makes it fun.
It may be short of big brother, but it definitely reeks of parental guidance.
ps . i made a facebook page for my mutt first.
My whole damn account on facebook got suspended because they’re completely psycho. Their terms of use and how they actually apply them are contradictory. I posted a picture of my 5 day old baby breastfeeding. Barely (pun intended) any of me was actually in the picture at all, just a bit of my breast. What’s wrong with breasts anyway? I like breasts. They feed babies, they look nice, what is the big deal? FB deleted my picture and gave me a warning saying I’d done something wrong, but that they couldn’t tell me what. So, like the dumb monkey I am, I reposted the picture to find out if that was their beef. (Figuring that if I got another warning, then I’d know that was what my “violation of terms of use” was.) Well, next thing I know, they’ve suspended my account. After some emails back and forth, a FB representative reveals that I was supposedly suspended because I was using a “fake” name. Um, well, I am using my online name, which I’ve been using as my online identity since 1994. And in US common law and CA state law, use of a name MAKES IT your real, legal name, just not your federally registered name. I explain to them that Argante IS my “real” name, that I’m a performer, writer and minister, and it’s my professional name which everyone knows me by. So they start giving me a bunch of bull that they need a scan of my drivers license with my “legal” name and official photo to reactivate my account.
OKAY, so they are requiring ME to give them my drivers license….. BUT they’re letting YOU have a facebook page for your DOG. Did they ask you for your dog’s ID card before they would allow him to have a facebook page?????
And, of course, this whole thing is making me think that they’re just using the fact that I have weird sounding name as an excuse for deleting, the real reason being so they can sidestep the whole censorship of breastfeeding photos thing.
It is becoming apparent that FB really strand for “Fascist Bastards”.
They are so completely fa
The deleted my dog’s FaceBook account because, apparently, I posted something against the TOS in a group. Which is REALLY funny, because MY DOG ISN’T A FAN OF ANY GROUPS ON FACEBOOK.
How the hell is that possible, then?
I pointed out how fucking stupid they were, and I got this:
“Unfortunately, we won’t be able to reactivate your account or respond to your email directly. This decision is final and cannot be appealed. You can visit the Warnings section of the Help Center for more information:”
Fascists. The lot of them.