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Old Blue 2 · June 13, 2025

Every few days Facebook asks me to log in. So today I do so, and I am asked to confirm my e-mail address, which I do. It then says I typed my e-mail address in too quickly, and so my Facebook account has been temporarily suspended! Now, I've been on t'internet since 2001, so yes, I can type my e-mail address quickly on a keyboard. I try to go in again, and it is now asking for a video selfie. I don't have a camera attached to my tower PC loaded with Windows 10, for the simple reason I do not need one.

So Facebook can go away in short jerky motions as far as I am concerned...

witchdoc187 · June 13, 2025

Thanks for sharing mate. Really enjoyed reading that. Do you do after dinner speeches?

Old Blue 2 · June 13, 2025

witchdoc187 said:
Thanks for sharing mate. Really enjoyed reading that. Do you do after dinner speeches?

No, but I give talks at the Battle of Britain Museum in Hawkinge, Kent, over a week-end in August every year.

Any more stupid comments or questions?

Daveysgingerlovechild · June 13, 2025

Old Blue 2 said:
Every few days Facebook asks me to log in. So today I do so, and I am asked to confirm my e-mail address, which I do. It then says I typed my e-mail address in too quickly, and so my Facebook account has been temporarily suspended! Now, I've been on t'internet since 2001, so yes, I can type my e-mail address quickly on a keyboard. I try to go in again, and it is now asking for a video selfie. I don't have a camera attached to my tower PC loaded with Windows 10, for the simple reason I do not need one.

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So Facebook can go away in short jerky motions as far as I am concerned...

I'm gonna be honest, it sorta sounds like a rogue AI has taken over Facebook and was building up to demanding nudes. Which it'd then blackmail you with.

Best off quitting.

Kurt. · June 13, 2025

Old Blue 2 said:
Any more stupid comments of questions?

*grabs popcorn and settles down

Old Blue 2 · June 13, 2025

Daveysgingerlovechild said:
I'm gonna be honest, it sorta sounds like a rogue AI has taken over Facebook and was building up to demanding nudes. Which it'd then blackmail you with.

Best off quitting.

I don't need it. Spoke to the owner of the Museum a few minutes ago, and confirmed I would be down as usual (we normally confirm via FB Messenger). I admin a few WW2 aviation pages on FB, but they can get by without me.

Benicetoourboys · June 13, 2025

Old Blue 2 said:
Every few days Facebook asks me to log in. So today I do so, and I am asked to confirm my e-mail address, which I do. It then says I typed my e-mail address in too quickly, and so my Facebook account has been temporarily suspended! Now, I've been on t'internet since 2001, so yes, I can type my e-mail address quickly on a keyboard. I try to go in again, and it is now asking for a video selfie. I don't have a camera attached to my tower PC loaded with Windows 10, for the simple reason I do not need one.

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So Facebook can go away in short jerky motions as far as I am concerned...

Similar happened to me, so yes, they can go away too.

Blue 1 · June 13, 2025

Bin it off.

Zuckerberg is a waste of carbon and Meta is a vehicle for totalitarianism.

Clarky cat · June 13, 2025

Facebook is for people trapped in a loveless marriage to hunt down and look at pictures of ex partners to see if time has been a kind or cruel mistress. You can also get their new address if they are selling things…

Daveysgingerlovechild · June 13, 2025

Old Blue 2 said:
I don't need it. Spoke to the owner of the Museum a few minutes ago, and confirmed I would be down as usual (we normally confirm via FB Messenger). I admin a few WW2 aviation pages on FB, but they can get by without me.

Being more serious, it's positives are increasingly outweighed by the utter crap on there, the constant spam/adverts, and generally having moved beyond being a useful networking platform to something more unwholesome. Bin.

Daveysgingerlovechild · June 13, 2025

Clarky cat said:
Facebook is for people trapped in a loveless marriage to hunt down and look at pictures of ex partners to see if time has been a kind or cruel mistress. You can also get their new address if they are selling things…

Daveysgingerlovechild said:
Being more serious, it's positives are increasingly outweighed by the utter crap on there, the constant spam/adverts, and generally having moved beyond being a useful networking platform to something more unwholesome. Bin.

Even that gets old mate. So I am told.

Kurt. · June 13, 2025

Daveysgingerlovechild said:
Being more serious, it's positives are increasingly outweighed by the utter crap on there, the constant spam/adverts, and generally having moved beyond being a useful networking platform to something more unwholesome. Bin.

I like seeing what people have had for their tea

Clarky cat · June 13, 2025

Kurt. said:
I like seeing what people have had for their tea

Enabler

Benicetoourboys · June 13, 2025

Joined twitter on my old phone to follow Iwobi, then he left about 2 weeks later & I got into a mess & blocked myself out of that too!
I blame the phone, but have to laugh that I will always remain one of his followers.
Twitter can go away too.

Tipp blue · June 13, 2025

Old Blue 2 said:
Every few days Facebook asks me to log in. So today I do so, and I am asked to confirm my e-mail address, which I do. It then says I typed my e-mail address in too quickly, and so my Facebook account has been temporarily suspended! Now, I've been on t'internet since 2001, so yes, I can type my e-mail address quickly on a keyboard. I try to go in again, and it is now asking for a video selfie. I don't have a camera attached to my tower PC loaded with Windows 10, for the simple reason I do not need one.

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So Facebook can go away in short jerky motions as far as I am concerned...

This sounds like good news, stay off it altogether, you'll be better off.