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I had seen similar posts like this crop up on Reddit from time to time, but I would rather use Lemmy instead to talk about this. However, I did a search for Facebook on here and have looked through communities while trying to see where this would best fit, but I couldn't figure out where it would go. So, I ended up deciding that I would have to go with General Discussion hoping it is okay here.

Anyway, I recently found my Facebook Account had gotten locked for the second time this month and I don't know why as all it says is that it is locked for suspicious activity. All I had been doing is sharing some petitions an stuff on environment conservation and animal welfare which I had been doing there for a long time. The only e-mail I have gotten both times is the one with the subject stating that someone may have accessed your account, but it doesn't give a specific reason why. Even though I have managed to get my Facebook Account unlocked again, I'm currently at the point of discontinuing sharing anything there for the most part as I have not been having any issues sharing similar stuff to Mastodon and Tribel, and getting my Facebook Account locked more than once without any specific reason giving is very inconvenient.

Right now, I don't use Reddit much anymore, I refuse to use Twitter/X for anything, and I'm already really beginning to not want to use anything Meta for much of anything either at this point. And even though I had heard about an admin of a Mastodon Instance being raided by the FBI, I'm currently feeling that it would be more appropriate if it were Facebook admins being raided by the FBI instead with what has been going on lately with that site.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet every time I report anyone on my friends list for being hacked or running scams, it's never against their community guidelines.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"We've checked what you reported and determined that promoting racism and murder is not against our community standards. Would you like to follow these incredibly stupid groups instead?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My business account was locked during fucking signup. From a residential IP with no low reputation, at a normal time of the day… for community rule breaking or something. Appeal? Fuck you appeal.

[–] KonalaKoala 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds like it is probably time to move your business elsewhere, @Nightwatch_[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I dit and it worked out great

[–] EdibleFriend 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think it's anything malicious I think there's just something weird going on. I just had an account that I haven't used in like 3 years locked for suspicious activity. I was able to get right back in it and double check to see if somebody had hacked it and sent weird spam messages but nope. Nothing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

its a dark pattern to get you to log back in

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern

Classic Privacy Zuckering

"Privacy Zuckering" – named after Facebook co-founder and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg – is a practice that tricks the user into sharing more information than they intended to.[8] Users may give up this information unknowingly or through practices that obscure or delay the option to opt out of sharing their private information. California has approved regulations that limit this practice by businesses in the California Consumer Privacy Act.[9]

[–] EdibleFriend 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All I had to do was log in and reset my password

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

now youve logged back into the platform and see all the notifications you missed on top of the fact they now have your ip if any hardware or geographic info has changedl etc. adding to your shadow profile

[–] KonalaKoala 1 points 1 year ago

Well, so far I have not been asked to give them any sensitive private information, but that has me wondering what it would take for them to be found in and face criminal charges for being in violation of the California Consumer Privacy Act with this weird shit going on.

[–] KonalaKoala 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that is what I am thinking as this had started this month and I never had this happen before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Facebook is an unethical company, founded and run by an unethical person. They do so much seedy shit that it would be impossible to discuss all of it, especially since a lot of it is still unknown.

[–] JoeKrogan 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its so they can get a blood sample and a passport scan from you πŸ™„

[–] KonalaKoala 1 points 1 year ago

Except they have not gotten any blood sample or a passport scan from me yet. And even if they were to try to get a blood sample out of me, they risk getting an example of actual koala blood from me to see what those idiots would do with that. πŸ˜‚

[–] Deftdrummer -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why are you still using Facebook in the first place?

[–] sebinspace 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why do you feel people need to justify their decisions? To you?

[–] KonalaKoala 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, the reason is because I still have a lot of family on there.

[–] Deftdrummer -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, the age old "I don't value privacy but do value keeping up with people I never talk to" defense. Get over it man, it's a plagued platform.

[–] njinx 3 points 1 year ago

A lot of assumptions you just made...

[–] LongPigFlavor 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That was pretty uncalled for. You couldn't possibly know that about them and plus your comment just comes across a just plain mean spirited. There are better ways to get your point across.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

When a company protects your online identity: