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I found out recently that I'm "pre-banned" from Facebook. I don't know why, nor do I care. I stayed off of Facebook for a long time, because I figured it was
by kafkaIncarnate 5y ago
I found out recently that I'm "pre-banned" from Facebook. I don't know why, nor do I care. I stayed off of Facebook for a long time, because I figured it was a stupid idea. In a moment of drunk weakness I decided to sign up because I was bored and curious (~2019?).
Nope, not allowed to sign up. No idea why, no reason given. The email address and my real life identity is never used in any offensive way (or really in any way at all). I don't have some weird name that sounds offensive either.
They didn't offer any way to remedy, no way to contact, no way to do anything about it. I just said screw it, I probably shouldn't be on there anyway.
Yet what I know about it and what I've seen of it, people I've known are perfectly acceptable posting hate speech, violent threats, spreading misinformation about people for lulz deliberately, etc.
Why is this company not considered the same as 8chan? I don't really care if it exists, just why culturally is it considered some sort of bastion of existence and 8chan is demonized when I see them as equals?
- incompatible 5y agoIf your email address is banned, presumably you can still create an account with a different address. I can't imagine that they ban real names, given the massive duplication of names in the real world, but even in that case it wouldn't be hard to vary it a bit. I guess you don't care enough to try such experiments, but for somebody who was kicked off and actually wants to be there, is there any special obstacle to creating a new account?