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Social Media Officially Sucks
Dec. 6th, 2018 11:39 amI've been in social media hell for a few months.
I used to be "jarvis.brian" on Instagram, but in October IG decided I was impersonating myself and killed my account. I was closing on 11,000 followers at that point. I initiated their appeals process but was not even acknowledged. After several weeks of waiting and hearing nothing, I created "brianj.dc" and while it was fine for about a month, IG killed that one as well, claiming it was I was still a fake me. Again appeals, again no response. I even wrote a snail-mail letter to their president, but got no response --not that I'm surprised.
I found another batch of fake accounts using my name & photos on Facebook. I reported all, and Facebook deleted all but one. That particular account, Facebook claims, is not a violation of their standards despite being an obvious fake. Why this one is privileged above the other fakes baffles me. How this could even vaguely be considered consistent with their standards is a total mystery.
And now Tumblr has declared they are going to be family-friendly. Well, their kind of family-friendly: no nudity. Nazis and white supremacist stuff is still just fine, but depictions of boobs or butts are forbidden.
Well, we'll always have Twitter --Nazis, white supremacists *and* butts.
I used to be "jarvis.brian" on Instagram, but in October IG decided I was impersonating myself and killed my account. I was closing on 11,000 followers at that point. I initiated their appeals process but was not even acknowledged. After several weeks of waiting and hearing nothing, I created "brianj.dc" and while it was fine for about a month, IG killed that one as well, claiming it was I was still a fake me. Again appeals, again no response. I even wrote a snail-mail letter to their president, but got no response --not that I'm surprised.
I found another batch of fake accounts using my name & photos on Facebook. I reported all, and Facebook deleted all but one. That particular account, Facebook claims, is not a violation of their standards despite being an obvious fake. Why this one is privileged above the other fakes baffles me. How this could even vaguely be considered consistent with their standards is a total mystery.
And now Tumblr has declared they are going to be family-friendly. Well, their kind of family-friendly: no nudity. Nazis and white supremacist stuff is still just fine, but depictions of boobs or butts are forbidden.
Well, we'll always have Twitter --Nazis, white supremacists *and* butts.
