Facebook is a Clusterf-ck

 I’ve worked as, in social media terms, a public figure. I’ve been threatened, stalked, and everything else you can imagine being done online, up to and including the creation of wiki articles outlining fictional crimes I have apparently committed against humanity. Where possible and appropriate I’d log IP addresses, aliases, times, dates, and hosts, pass it on to police in the jurisdiction the little turd trying to get a reaction lived in, and carry on. That’s what you do.

I also had two Facebook accounts. One was my actual account, which I kept private, and didn’t use my legal name on. The other was public. Now I’m no longer a video games community manager I wanted to go back to using my personal account, but because the [total lack of] behaviour of that account has changed so much with my using it, they keep banning me. This is Facebook’s f-cked up mechanism to “help protect” my account from third parties. It’s so incredibly focused on the idea that all changes in activity denote a hijacking that it ignores the possibility that someone might resume using their exploitative little cluster of f-cks after a period of inactivity.

So I’m fed up. The awful usability of all their systems, the huge dependence on their rubbish AI for pretty much every aspect of moderation and security, and their awful attitude to their primary product, us, all adds up to me, someone who has used their systems for a living, removing every Meta product from my extensive collection of devices. I’m on BlueSky, Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, and a bunch of other platforms, but I have elected to forego Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads until they unlock my account, which I can’t do myself, because they’ve removed my ability to prove my identity by any means but the credit card I had more than a decade ago, when I was last actively using my account.

F-cking smackchops.