I heard that some of the conservative groups and individuals are moving there because they have been kicked off/banned/jailed(suspended) from facebook.

Hi Susan,

Kicked off of Facebook? Wow, what do you have to do that is so bad that you get kicked off? Conservatives? Really?

sj

The point of FB for me is I can connect with friends and relatives from ages past. I am not interested in moving to a platform with a political agenda of any sort, especially if that tears me from friends and relatives (who land everywhere on the political spectrum, and the a-political one as well). I haven't seen anyone I know being kicked off of FB and as I note, they represent a wide variety of political opinions. If they turn out to be neo-Nazis', okay I wouldn't want to associate anyway.

Facebook is very busy controlling who gets their posts seen. If you watched the hearings last week, you saw Ted Cruz bring it up with Zuckerberg. He admitted there are thousands of his employees deciding what gets seen and who gets suspended. It’s almost always conservatives that are silenced. Zuckerberg acted like this was all news to him and he was just trying to keep terrorists from using Facebook. A few people whose pages I follow are gone, poof. Used to be that there was nothing posted for 30 days and then they’d be back, talking about being out “jail” but now they are just gone. No, they aren’t neo-nazis, as if I’d associate with any, geeze. Just conservatives with views that differ from the MSM.

Hi Jodi,

Those teacups were no joke. Spike was good at sending you a quick screenshot of those suckers...a warning shot over the bow.

I'll go over to MeWe now and look for you Jodi. I have not set up my profile yet but I think I am registered as Susan Skidmore. Something new to learn and it all feels so innocent and burgeoning. We might be a little late to say we are getting in on the ground floor. (look at that...two metaphors in one post...)

sooey

Spike was strict if you didn’t follow the rules but I don’t think he censored people because he didn’t like their opinion.

I went for a ride on the teacups once, for reasons unknown even at the time. Fortunately it was a short ride. :-)

Mcsooey, I accepted your connection request on MeWe... you’re my first official friend there!

Thank you, Jodi. Yes, you are my second connection. It's different and it will take some time to figure it all out. I think I'm still privacy shy...not so sure how much I want to share.

And I’m an open book. :-)

Yes, I think there are times when we forget that we are just regular people who have been 'online' for years. All of our information is already out there. People with motives that are nefarious already have more than enough to work with. Frankly, I'm not an important person and all of my secrets are very boring. I think our day of being able to hide are in the past.

The only reference I have seen about being restricted on Facebook was someone who was in the habit of posting things that were copyrighted.

Don’t take my word on it. Search “censorship on Facebook”, you’ll find articles where Congress was concerned about it, dating back at least 2 years. The people who are ill-affected by the new algorithms seem to be of the conservative persuasion.