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Facebook banning thousands of people for 200M years

killjoywashere 5y ago
Happened to my wife, a small business owner who works with a lot of moms in the area (e.g. she belongs to lots of "<neighborhood> Moms" groups). Plus we moved in the pandemic, and all her contact with friends is over Facebook, so she's basically been crying since she woke up this morning. Sounds like it might be a bug related to PHP max time. Multiple threads on the issue https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3faqm/too_bad_i_have_plans_that_day/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3faqm/too_bad_i_... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3gp8v/shoutout_to_the_intern_that_is_definitely_getting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3gp8v/shoutout_t... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3ms26/looks_like_the_restriction_glitch_is_finally/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3ms26/looks_like... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3cums/a_good_friend_just_got_blocked_with_this_message/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3cums/a_good_fri... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3h9u8/whats_going_on_and_how_can_i_start_posting_again/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3h9u8/whats_goin... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3kol7/my_account_got_hacked_and_facebook_has_no_way/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3kol7/my_account... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3jbn9/another_one_with_a_minus_year_date/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3jbn9/another_on... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3knq7/wtf_fb/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3knq7/wtf_fb/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3hy4e/when_will_the_time_go_backwards_then/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3hy4e/when_will_... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3ikrm/can_anyone_help_me_out_here_i_literally_havent/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3ikrm/can_anyone... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o37dvi/fb_banned_me_until_the_year_219_million_uh/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o37dvi/fb_banned_... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3j9t4/soooo_i_had_no_warnings_nothing_and_now_im/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3j9t4/soooo_i_ha... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o34jzl/looks_like_im_not_the_only_one_with_this_issue/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o34jzl/looks_like... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3il3q/help_random_i_dont_spam_sell_or_fight_why_am_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3il3q/help_rando... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3atfz/temporarily_restricted_from_joining_and_posting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3atfz/temporaril...
- willxinc 5y ago
  Is it still happening? Seems to have been resolved for my friend that was hit.
literallyaduck 5y ago
Facebook is the defacto organization standard for many local businesses and communities. For many, denying access essentially cuts them off from even local society. How many times have you heard?: "We notify people through Facebook.", "Our club uses Facebook to setup meetings", "Like us on Facebook to get the insider deals. " Banned users in the US should contact their states attorney general to ask for a remedy to the civil rights violation. Facebook does business in every state and encourages businesses and communities to organize using its facilities and there is no alternative for a banned user if businesses and communities have chosen that platform.
- jeofken 5y ago
  What then would the incentive be for users to leave Facebook? The conflict is why social media companies come and go. Most young people don’t even use Facebook anymore, or hardly any
  - saurik 5y ago
    They might not use it much, but they almost all seem to have it? (At least at the college level: I live in a college town and am a part of the local government here. For the record, almost all of the organization people do for politics and notifications people get about government services comes via either Facebook itself or Facebook's other service, Instagram. If someone is banned from Facebook, they are pretty fucked.)
    - 0x0nyandesu 5y ago
      Nah I deleted it a few years ago and I make it a point to say so to every old person I see that brings it up.
    - xnyan 5y ago
      I was a heavy Facebook user from the time when you had to have an edu email address to 2014. Have not logged in once in the last 7 years and have never missed it once.
  - 5y ago
diveanon 5y ago
This is the best feature Facebook has ever released.

Happened to my wife, a small business owner who works with a lot of moms in the area (e.g. she belongs to lots of "<neighborhood> Moms" groups). Plus we moved in the pandemic, and all her contact with friends is over Facebook, so she's basically been crying since she woke up this morning. Sounds like it might be a bug related to PHP max time. Multiple threads on the issue https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3faqm/too_bad_i_have_plans_that_day/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3faqm/too_bad_i_... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3gp8v/shoutout_to_the_intern_that_is_definitely_getting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3gp8v/shoutout_t... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3ms26/looks_like_the_restriction_glitch_is_finally/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3ms26/looks_like... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3cums/a_good_friend_just_got_blocked_with_this_message/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3cums/a_good_fri... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3h9u8/whats_going_on_and_how_can_i_start_posting_again/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3h9u8/whats_goin... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3kol7/my_account_got_hacked_and_facebook_has_no_way/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3kol7/my_account... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3jbn9/another_one_with_a_minus_year_date/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3jbn9/another_on... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3knq7/wtf_fb/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3knq7/wtf_fb/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3hy4e/when_will_the_time_go_backwards_then/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3hy4e/when_will_... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3ikrm/can_anyone_help_me_out_here_i_literally_havent/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3ikrm/can_anyone... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o37dvi/fb_banned_me_until_the_year_219_million_uh/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o37dvi/fb_banned_... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3j9t4/soooo_i_had_no_warnings_nothing_and_now_im/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3j9t4/soooo_i_ha... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o34jzl/looks_like_im_not_the_only_one_with_this_issue/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o34jzl/looks_like... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3il3q/help_random_i_dont_spam_sell_or_fight_why_am_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3il3q/help_rando... https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3atfz/temporarily_restricted_from_joining_and_posting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/o3atfz/temporaril...

willxinc 5y ago
Is it still happening? Seems to have been resolved for my friend that was hit.

literallyaduck 5y ago

Facebook is the defacto organization standard for many local businesses and communities. For many, denying access essentially cuts them off from even local society. How many times have you heard?: "We notify people through Facebook.", "Our club uses Facebook to setup meetings", "Like us on Facebook to get the insider deals. " Banned users in the US should contact their states attorney general to ask for a remedy to the civil rights violation. Facebook does business in every state and encourages businesses and communities to organize using its facilities and there is no alternative for a banned user if businesses and communities have chosen that platform.

jeofken 5y ago
What then would the incentive be for users to leave Facebook? The conflict is why social media companies come and go. Most young people don’t even use Facebook anymore, or hardly any
- saurik 5y ago
  They might not use it much, but they almost all seem to have it? (At least at the college level: I live in a college town and am a part of the local government here. For the record, almost all of the organization people do for politics and notifications people get about government services comes via either Facebook itself or Facebook's other service, Instagram. If someone is banned from Facebook, they are pretty fucked.)
  - 0x0nyandesu 5y ago
    Nah I deleted it a few years ago and I make it a point to say so to every old person I see that brings it up.
  - xnyan 5y ago
    I was a heavy Facebook user from the time when you had to have an edu email address to 2014. Have not logged in once in the last 7 years and have never missed it once.
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diveanon 5y ago

This is the best feature Facebook has ever released.