Facebook suspended my account about a year ago, but first they demanded that I provide them with a selfie. I decided that they could shove it up their butts.

So a few months ago I signed up for Facebook again, this time with a new email address. They let me on and I used it without any issues this whole time, until tonight. I got an email from those f'n a'holes:

"Aaron, you have 180 days to take action. Hi Aaron,Your Facebook account has been suspended. This is because your account, or activity on it, doesn't follow our Community Standards on account integrity."

...and when I considered trying their appeal bs, this is what they said:

"Confirm your identity with VIDEO selfie (they're not getting off on photos anymore!)

To make sure you're a real person, we need you to record a video selfie. We'll ask you to move your head during the recording to help us capture your face at different angles."

And you guys know how I am so there's no way in hell that I'm gonna make a video for them to jack off to. This confirms that they can totally shove facebook up their butts!

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A couple things I want to point out about this Facebook suspension that I left out:

1) If I "violated their community standards" then why are they inviting me to share a video selfie with them? That will make them forgive me whatever horrible thing I did wrong?

2) What does a video selfie even prove? If I go to a store to buy beer, they aren't going to accept a video selfie as ID. So what gives?

Their elitism (whether it's automated or not) disgusts me. And I didn't do anything wrong. I get on Facebook and I watch the reels that they show me and then I sign off, and today was no different than any other day.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to All <=-

And you guys know how I am so there's no way in hell that I'm gonna
make a video for them to jack off to. This confirms that they can
totally shove facebook up their butts!

Wow. I have never had Facebook pull this on me.

But if they did, I'd close my account too.


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Hello Aaron!

Monday April 28 2025 19:01, you wrote to All:

Facebook suspended my account about a year ago,

You should be suspended from life for your nazi views on Ukraine, trumpist.

Alex

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Aaron Thomas wrote to All <=-

Facebook suspended my account about a year ago, but first they demanded that I provide them with a selfie. I decided that they could shove it
up their butts.

And you guys know how I am so there's no way in hell that I'm gonna
make a video for them to jack off to. This confirms that they can
totally shove facebook up their butts!

We need an LLM trained on Dr. Sigmund Freud's works to chime in here.



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Quoting Aaron Thomas to All <=-

And you guys know how I am so there's no way in hell that I'm gonna
make a video for them to jack off to. This confirms that they can
totally shove facebook up their butts!

Facebook is a waste. I deleted my account long ago. You won't miss it.

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Quoting Kurt Weiske to Aaron Thomas <=-

And you guys know how I am so there's no way in hell that I'm gonna
make a video for them to jack off to. This confirms that they can
totally shove facebook up their butts!

We need an LLM trained on Dr. Sigmund Freud's works to chime in here.

Ha ha - wait, was that supposed to be funny? Why would we need an AI to
help us understand? Wait, I might need one to chime in on your
comment...


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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I'd be willing to show them my drivers license, which would make a lot more sense, but that's not what turns them on.

The only time I've ever had to do something similar to this was when I was on vacation and had an issue with a credit card. But their process was very clear as to why they wanted a picture of my driver's license, etc. And everything they did made sense (i.e. if the situation was reversed, these would be the same things that I'd ask for).


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Don Vally wrote to AARON THOMAS <=-

Facebook is a waste. I deleted my account long ago. You won't miss it.

If it wasn't for the fact that it's the way I stay in communications with my elderly relatives, and it's the only place where many of my interest groups are, I'd have dumped it long ago.


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The only time I've ever had to do something similar to this was when I
was on vacation and had an issue with a credit card. But their process was very clear as to why they wanted a picture of my driver's license, etc. And everything they did made sense (i.e. if the situation was reversed, these would be the same things that I'd ask for).

Yea that's something that you can appreciate, since they were trying to prevent fraud. But Facebook though, they're just pushing me around because somebody thinks it's funny.

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Don Vally wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

Ha ha - wait, was that supposed to be funny? Why would we need an AI
to help us understand? Wait, I might need one to chime in on your
comment...

Wow, that one went way over your head.




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Quoting Kurt Weiske to Don Vally <=-

Don Vally wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

Ha ha - wait, was that supposed to be funny? Why would we need an AI
to help us understand? Wait, I might need one to chime in on your
comment...

Wow, that one went way over your head.

Must've been like a dirty window. I couldn't see through it.

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