Facebook 12+

Facebook used to be amazing. Now it’s mostly ads. They tried to create an algorithm where you have visibility of the same group of people over and over, it’s VERY boring. Their reels platform was actually getting pretty cool because they paid content creators to come over, but then when things started going well, they stopped paying them. They refused to ever monetize my account because I posted a video with a watermark, 15 videos back. Their appeal process is horrible and they have literally zero customer service. They “shadow ban” you if you post a link or share a news story so no one actually has visibility unless they search for it on my page. They grossly limit freedom of speech, esp for LGBTQ and other minority groups. They layered in so many things it got confusing, messenger is it’s own app, but reels is not, making reels difficult to share. Their system in wonky and hard to maneuver through, you get used to it, but the whole time your think “why?”. It has some value for older people to stay in touch, that’s the only good thing I can say. Like an abandoned amusement park, it used to be fun, but now it’s rusty and outdated.

My personal profile of 20+ years on Facebook Was disabled without notice due to a linked Instagram account that was not mine and that I had no access to! The only option given to appeal was to log into the Instagram account to file an appeal: Well kind of hard to do when it’s not your Instagram account, you have no access to it and Instagram help and support was anything but. Facebook was absolutely no help themselves. The help/support Center is a joke. I lost all access to my personal page and two business pages in which I had active ads running, of course Facebook went ahead and charged me for those ads even though I could not access them or control them. I even went so far as to creating a new profile in order to access some of the features in the help support center, and that was a dead end! you do not realize how much you use and rely on your Facebook account to store information and access lots of other other things until you totally lose all control of it due to no fault of your own. Apparently small businesses in the world as myself are pretty insignificant and not worth the time of giant corporate businesses such as meta! The amount of chaos, headache, stress, and even loss of business due to my Facebook accounts, being disabled cannot even be put into words. So yes, my rating would be Facebook as a whole and their app is a joke!

I’ll leave my old review done there from when Facebook messenger sprouted off in to a new app. However this app in the last 11 years or so of me using it has. 1.) targeted me with negative posts (I am bipolar and when they were running this experiment)I had no idea and ended up checking in to a facility. 2.) even with my political preference in my profile they still poured the other party down my throat every election year 3.) the people who use add space often don’t send out the product 4.) their intrusive way of advertising listens in to whatever we say, if you don’t believe me spend 15 min talking about a random thing close the app and then open it boom adds for thing. 5.) now the open chat for like random groups the general chat. Sooooooooooo annoying. I don’t want 99 notifications about people chatting I like most people has been cowed in to using Facebook! However this is the worst app ever. It's slow it's realitivlty ugly and you can't preform all the functions that you can on Facebook web as easily! Most people are running Facebook and the Facebook messenger! Taking down posts is near impossible you normally end up somehow back at the top of your news feed. And reporting posts takes so long you may as well keep seeing the male sexual organ on the screen! It is faster to go to Facebook from your safari browser! Facebook app developers do something