Slapped by Facebook
I opened my Facebook account a few days ago, and I had a personal note from a Facebook Corporation fellow who apparently works out in California. I was duely impressed: Facebook and California!
“Your comment goes against our Community Standards on violence and incitement.”
The fellow then added as though he were doing me a favor, “No one else can see your comment. We have these standards to prevent and disrupt offline harm.”
Well, I certainly would not want to cause “offline harm,” whatever that is.
I could hardly remember what my post was in response to. I looked it up and I think this was the one:
Now, that's a pretty plain vanilla post---and pretty pointless. I'm not sure how the Facebook representative would have thought would have been a more appropriate response. It really didn't give me much to work with---just the names of serial killers and their signs. Perhaps I should have responded, “Oh, I do hate these folks so much!” or “I think I'll spend a day or two looking these folks up to learn more about them.”
Being that I'm an Aries and not represented on the Facebook list, I made the following response: “I'm an Aries. Damn, now I must kill two or more folks so the list will be more complete.”
Now I must admit that's sick humor…but it's humor---not incitement to violence…I'm pretty sure.
The California fellow went on to say that I had several options that I could employ to response to being slapped by this fellow, but common sense and a sense of humor prevented me from pursuing the matter any further.
In fact, I might send him flowers for providing a fine little topic for my essay writing.
By the way, a few days later, Facebook kicked me out of the Facebook family for using the phrase, “take them out back and shoot them.” Well, shucks, I meant that in the nicest way.
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