Another Post on My Kerfuffle with Facebook

 

On Sunday, I wrote a post on My On Going Kerfuffle with Google and Facebook . Of course, nothing has changed since then. I did, however, attempt to post a link to this blog onto Facebook so I could get screenshots of the Facebook banning process.

 

What can you do?

 

My On Going Kerfuffle with Google and Facebook

I've mentioned on a number of occasions that my blogs have had problems dealing with both Facebook and Google adsense. This blog has been banned from Facebook, supposedly due to the blog being a "spam site" because of my ads.

Funny thing, my dumaguetewebsite blog probably contains more Google ads than this blog, and I have no problem posting links to it on Facebook.

This Facebook ban has led to the creation of a third blog - robertsimms.blogspot.com with which Facebook evidently doesn't have a problem. Unfortunately, Google adsense has yet to approve that blog for ads, sighting the lack of content. I've attempting to address this by making a concerted effort to post to the new blog on a regular basis.

Oddly, my posts on sorryalltheclevernamesaretaken have been far less frequent of late than the newer Robert Simms blog. This has not affected my Google ads on that blog whats so ever.

I've tried getting around these problems by linking all three blogs onto MeWe.com, trying to bring in traffic. I'm also frequently linking the non-banned blogs onto Facebook. So far, none of these stratagems has increased my revenue.

Facebook Bans

On a number of occasions, I've complained on this blog that sorryalltheclevernamesaretaken has been banned by Facebook for violating "community standards" though, for the life of me, I can't see how I've done so.

The result of that ban has been the creation of another blog, robertsimms.blogspot.com, which seems to be harmless as far as Facebook is concerned.

I'm Facebook friends with Matt Archbold, creator of the blog, Creative Minority Report. Matt has recently published a book, American Antigone, which Facebook refuses to advertise. On a Facebook post today, Matt wrote:

"Instapundit wrote: 'Abandoning the decentralized Blogosphere for the walled gardens of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube was a huge mistake, particularly for conservatives.'

I couldn't agree more. This election season has proven it. The mask is off. Big Tech is censoring, shadow banning, and demonetizing conservatives. Facebook, just this week, banned ads for my pro life book. Why? They said it could influence the election

. We should get back to blogging. We could write what we wanted, without concern that Big Tech would limit our reach.

I recently began posting more at CMR exactly because of this. We cant allow our speech to be censored."

I'm reasonably sure that the banning of my blog from Facebook was not part of the overall ban on Conservatives, but rather due to someone I had "unfriended" on Facebook flagging my links to the blog as an act of petty revenge. However, I do see a trend by "the walled gardens of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube" to make it hard for Conservatives to express their views.

I've missed going the Matt's blog every day. I'm glad to see that he's back to blogging.

An Update

As I've mentioned a number of times, I recently attempted to post a link from this blog onto my Facebook page. Although I had done so in the past, I was no longer allowed to do so because this blog now goes against Facebook's Community Standards.

I've continued to try and post links from this blog with no success. I have tried to contact Facebook to find out why this has happened, also with no success.

The only possible explanation to my mind is that someone must have flagged one of my posts as inappropriate, though for the life of me, I can't imagine which of the posts I've written could've offended anyone.

A few months ago, I got into a row of sorts with someone here in Dumaguete. Because of our disagreement, I unfriended that person on Facebook. It's quite possible that in an act of revenge, this person complained to Facebook about a blog post - not because of anything inappropriate I might have written, but purely from spite.

Of course, I have no way of proving this, but it seems to me to be the only logical explanation.

As I'm no longer friends with this individual, I'm sure this person is unaware of my new blog. Hopefully, it won't have a problem on Facebook.

Sorry, Not Sorry

When I created my new blog a few days ago, the plan was to phase out this older blog, Sorry, All The Clever Names Are Taken. As I explained earlier, the older blog suffered under a name that was difficult to pass on to other folks by word of mouth. I had also experienced a problem with Facebook, which had inexplicably banned the older blog for going against Facebook's "community standards". I have absolutely no idea why that was done. Like a certain Captain Beefheart LP, this blog is safe as milk.

However, I've decided to delay the ending of this blog for the time being. I'll do my best to keep up this blog, the new one, and the Dumaguete Website blog, which I have shamefully neglected.

My two older blogs feature Google ads, and naturally I wanted this for the new blog. Unfortunately, it appears that I may have to wait, possibly two weeks before Google allows ads to be featured on the new blog.

So, for the time being, I will continue all three blogs.

My New Blog

I've been blogging since 2006. I've started, and finished a number of blogs, but the one I've used most consistently over the years is Sorry, All The Clever Names Are Taken.

I've been thinking that the name of that blog was just a bit too clever. It works with using a link, but it's cumbersome when telling the name to someone and expecting them to remember it. I've been lazy, and in spite of wanting to create a new blog with a easier name, I've been putting it off.

Circumstances have pushed me to finally follow through on the plan to create that new blog.

Due to the COVID19 causing havoc around the globe, the area where I'm living in Philippines has been placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) and I wanted to begin writing about the situation and my experiences living under the ECQ. I wrote that post this morning, (ECQ Day One ) and attempted to put a link to that post onto my Facebook page.

Unfortunately, I was unable to post the link. Facebook said the blog was banned due it's not following community standards. I couldn't understand how or why that happened. I put the same post onto another of my blogs, and the link was accepted on Facebook. With all that, I've decided the time was right to create a new blog under an easier name to get across - hence, robertsimms.blogspot.com. Perhaps, one day, if the url is available, I'll use my name with a dot com or dot net.

This will mark the first post on the new blog. It will also be simultaneously posted on Sorry, All The Clever Names Are Taken.