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Australian poet, Facebook shadow banning, poem, poetry, Social media censorship, Social media shadow banning
Hear this, my friends in Facebook-land:
At Facebook I’ve been shadow banned!
My friends say: “Facebook we have scanned –
Where have you gone?” – I’m shadow banned!
My content counted, and my stand!
It’s groovy to be shadow banned!
Down at the beach in sparkling sand
I wrote it large: “I’m shadow banned!”
Oh what a day! It’s great, it’s grand!
At last! At last! – I’m shadow banned!
Perhaps some tiny flames I’ve fanned.
Could that be why I’m shadow banned?
But then I can’t quite understand:
I’m quite obscure, yet shadow banned?
By some computer code – so planned;
By algorithm, shadow banned.
So folks, give Zuckerberg a hand,
Plus all his pals! I’m shadow banned!
dnobrienpoetry 
Rejoice in that day,
and leap for joy…
I decide to leave Facebook at least once a week.
Wow! You’re one of the elite! Banned! That must mean you said something pretty conservative or moral — and pretty important. I have to say I’m proud to know you.
Facebook is such a stupid venue. The most life-wasting activity this world has seen — the # 2 most life-wasting activity being Twitter. Now, that being said, I have to admit that I do have a FB page and hop onto it several times a week — but it’s primarily to check and see if I’ve had communication from people that I need to respond to. Actually most of what goes up on my page is from my blog, and now, as I understand the whole shadowbanning practice, I’m finding that linking to a blog is one of the best ways to get ourselves shadowbanned. So ….. maybe I’ll just free myself from all of it. I don’t go onto Twitter more than 3 or 4 times a month, so I doubt that anyone knows I’m there enough to consider banning me from Twitter in any way at all.
It’s sort of demoralizing to realize I’m not important enough to be shadowbanned. But, then again — maybe I have been, and I don’t know it — because I’m not on there enough to find out. 🙂
By the way, I forgot to say I love the poem.
Thanks.
Not outright banned but shadow-banned. What happens in shadow-banning as far as I can tell (it’s a secret) is the algorithm decides that you have been posting, sharing, or liking too many posts of the wrong persuasion – anything on the right or anti-PC. You are then shunted to the bottom of the pile and “friends” don’t get notifications of your posts – maybe a few do but nowhere near all. Your posts are there but very few if any know about them. It’s used on Twitter and Instagram as well but not admitted to. It happened to me soon after the algorithm was changed.
Yes, I had a pretty good idea about how it worked, but I have to think it’s something of an honor to have them so concerned about hiding your material. I did read something about Twitter shadow banning people who put links to blogs in their posts. Supposedly, if you have a lot of followers, they say that constitutes spam. The thinking process of these social media admins boggles the normal mind. Links to my blogs are about all I have posted on Twitter, but I don’t go onto Twitter enough for them to even know I’m there. 🙂