thatz4u Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 (edited) Facebook must not like model cars as they took down my page.....all I had posted were photos of my model builds...perhaps they lacked the backbone to look at my JoHan Hearse photos or they may have offended some people, either way I'm better off without them.... Hey Facebbok, .....PUT A HELMET ON!!! Edited October 12, 2018 by thatz4u
NYLIBUD Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 Ah,who needs them anyway?What was the problem with the hearse?Maybe u can PM the photos to me...Just curious.
High octane Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 I had NO problems posting model cars on facebook. Maybe it was the hearse???
Snake45 Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 It's amazing what fakebook, tweeter, etc. do and don't have "problems" with. Just one more reason I'm glad I have nothing to do with them, and never have had.
Dave Van Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 1 hour ago, cobraman said: Some might say that's a good thing. x2
NYLIBUD Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 Facebook and mostly all the social media sites,to me are just a big waste of time.Again just my opinion.
Rob Hall Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 Social media has it's place... I've never had issues w/ Facebook, I've found it quite useful for staying in contact w/ family, friends and former co-workers scattered around the country. As well as special interest groups relative to me for various dog breeds, model kits and model building, diecast, various cars, local events and news, etc. I like Twitter for news related to various interests and people in motorsports and the software industry. I use LinkedIn for professional contacts and staying current w/ my profession. I use Instagram to a lesser degree, but it's useful for photos of 1:1 cars that give me ideas about possible kit builds.
thatz4u Posted October 12, 2018 Author Posted October 12, 2018 35 minutes ago, NYLIBUD said: Facebook and mostly all the social media sites,to me are just a big waste of time.Again just my opinion. I totally agree, social media is becoming socialist media
Jim N Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 22 minutes ago, thatz4u said: I totally agree, social media is becoming socialist media There may be more truth to this statement than we realize. I saw a story several days ago that Europe is trying to flex its muscles and regulate what constitutes acceptable speech. In turn this affects what can and cannot be on the internet. Many will say what does this have to do with the U.S., but having been a former regulator, I can tell you a lot. Many companies create their business practices to adhere to their strictest regulator. By doing this, they stay out of trouble with the jurisdictions that have looser regulatory environments. This works well in most cases, but not when it comes to individual rights where a country such as the U.S. has broad free speech and free press rights and Europe largely does not recognize these rights. Yes, Facebook is a private company and they can set their rules in a way that they want. But when other countries or groups of countries begin to try and stifle our Constitutional rights by regulating what constitutes acceptable speech, it becomes a big deal.
Tom Geiger Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 You never know what the rationale is with Facebook. People we know who behave rather well on the model car boards are raving lunatics on Facebook! It seems anything goes. The one thing they worry about is copyright. If some entity complains that you have posted their copyrighted content, they will pull it down. One time the NNL East website got blocked by a corporate web nanny... we checked into it and it was blocked for the word "models". As if we were a porno site. Once we contacted them, they lifted the block.
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 (edited) Anyone who's paying attention to the creeping censorship across the major social media platforms...very often resulting from entirely innocuous posts from which words and phrases are taken ENTIRELY OUT OF CONTEXT, AND THE POSTERS DEMONIZED...should be very concerned. No telling why you were blocked or banned or removed. Hard to think of a way photos of scale models could violate any "standards of conduct". Edited October 12, 2018 by Ace-Garageguy
StevenGuthmiller Posted October 12, 2018 Posted October 12, 2018 I guess this is one more excuse for me to get involved in Facebook & Twitter. I never really had any interest in all that nonsense anyway, so why start now. Steve
Tom Geiger Posted October 13, 2018 Posted October 13, 2018 5 hours ago, Rob Hall said: Social media has it's place... I've never had issues w/ Facebook, I've found it quite useful for staying in contact w/ family, friends and former co-workers scattered around the country. As well as special interest groups relative to me for various dog breeds, model kits and model building, diecast, various cars, local events and news, etc. I like Twitter for news related to various interests and people in motorsports and the software industry. I use LinkedIn for professional contacts and staying current w/ my profession. I use Instagram to a lesser degree, but it's useful for photos of 1:1 cars that give me ideas about possible kit builds. Agreed. Facebook keeps me in touch with my 86 year old uncle in Florida. We started a family photo site. I am in touch with people I went to high school with, kids I knew when I lived on an Army Post in Germany. There are Facebook groups for every thing! I have kept in touch with business associates through LinkedIn. I have gotten my last three jobs through those connections. Used properly, the Internet has untold possibilities.
mike 51 Posted October 13, 2018 Posted October 13, 2018 We've used Facebook for years with family and friends....pics of children and now grandchildren mostly. None of us have ever been bothered by anyone or anything connected to Facebook,never! I've had people tell me they won't Google anything either.....but never why.
TomZ Posted October 13, 2018 Posted October 13, 2018 5 hours ago, thatz4u said: I totally agree, social media is becoming socialist media WIRED magazine had a great feature article about Facebook a while back that was very enlightening. Before the last election the initial attitude with FB staff was, "what can we do to help get Hillary elected?" It wasn't long before it occurred to someone that this behavior would make them a political organization in the eye of the Feds. Much head scratching and agonizing ensued. In the end they tried to be impartial, but it ain't easy when you look at how many ways FB can be used and manipulated among the many millions of daily posts.
iamsuperdan Posted October 13, 2018 Posted October 13, 2018 I want to see this hearse. Go post them up in Under Glass!
Dave Ambrose Posted October 13, 2018 Posted October 13, 2018 A lot of Facebook screening is automated. It doesn’t always work right. There is a way to request a human review. You should try that.
slusher Posted October 13, 2018 Posted October 13, 2018 That's really strange Al that you got kick off for posting your models. You should request why and look into it unless you really don't care..
Dave Ambrose Posted October 13, 2018 Posted October 13, 2018 Locking this at the request of the original poster.
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