And… it happened again…
June 18, 2024So the Facebook Bot is at it again, and while it still says I am a poster in “good standing”, I think it may be time to take a break from the PBRTV Facebook page…. although I would like to keep “testing the waters” until Meta tells me what I’m doing wrong! I do, however, fear that it might damage another page I created (long before the PBRTV Page) and continue to manage. It might be some sort of bug in their system. Who knows?
I know many of you in “the business” (by which I mean “the industry” – quote nod: Dan Dunlap) have experienced this or similar as well.
I do not believe I am being stifled by any means. I do think there is a glitch in the system that our friends at Meta either have not figured out, or have no desire to figure out. Hell, they know more than we do about technology, right? We’re just using this for free. All I ask is for a descriptive explanation of what the hell I’m doing wrong and I’ll fix it! (Ironically, both posts that have been tagged mention KDKA-TV? Even odder!!)
So as we take a bit of a break from the PBRTV page on Facebook, please note you can find us on Meta’s newest platform, “Threads” (where they don’t seem to have any issue). You can also find us on Twitt… er… uh “X” (the owl?). You can find us on both platforms as “PBRTV”.
You can also do what nearly 200 readers of PBRTV have done… subscribe to the posts. That way, if you only occasionally surf the web, you won’t miss a post when it happens. You may enter your email address in the box at the bottom of the website. (For those of you on computer screens it’ll be in the right hand bottom corner. For those of you mobile users… just scroll to the bottom of the page.
Again, I will be conducting some tests on the Facebook page, until I can determine what isn’t going to set their Phony Brain (AKA “Artificial Intelligence”) into a tail spin and why I’m a target of such when I’m not doing anything deceptive!
At 47 1/2 I may be getting “too old for this”.
There are a lot of words I would say if I were in your shoes, Eric, but I’m trying in vain to be a nice guy so I’ll forgo any of those words. However, if “At 47 1/2” you’re getting too old for this, what does that say to someone at 69?
Hmmmm… I will need to ponder that one, Mr. Cloonan.
It feels bad, you spend time and effort to share your thoughts, then an unfeeling algorithm comes by and snipes at your posts, then no one replies with useful information. You can’t get anything out of Youtube either, it seems you need to be a top content creator before you get service.
It’s the huge scale of these companies, they just can’t have enough staff to handle most of the problems.
I got the bug and had Facebook and Twitter for a while 10+ years ago, it seemed all those into media should have it, but found it took too much time, maybe I didn’t stick with it long enough.
Some of my friends can do it with ease and without even seeming to think about it, like it’s just another bodily function, but I’m not native to that kind of social media, making it feel like a struggle.
I’d do it for a business or radio station promotion, to keep up networking and connections, make it useful, using more like an informational blog that people could Favorite to see what’s up.
I just read right here, checking PBRTV every day or so, and I might not post for weeks, that’s the speed I like.
Here’s hoping they fix your Facebook!
Boomer
Eric,
Same thing happened to my personal account, apparently for posting a link to https://www.facebook.com/groups/kgbquotes
My KGB’s Quote of the Day group. What’s stupid about this is that when you form a new group, you can specify that all of your friends and followers should be notified. And by posting the link on my personal page, who gets to see it? My friends and followers.
Of course, there’s no way to appeal to the bots…