If you want to know how Facebook treats the people whose data it
sells, here's what happened to me: I made a FB page for the Beall Project (local history) when I was writing/producing it in 2014-15, and then one for myself.
On them, I set about befriending anybody and everybody around town,
especially people who came into the Club 528, where I was waitressing then.
FB said I didn't know the people I was befriending by
the dozens and some didn't want to be friends with me.
I said, "I know them better than you do, I saw them at the
Club 528 last weekend/month."
FB warned me to stop; I didn't, so they threw me off.
After a month or six weeks they started sending me messages to
come back. I thought F#*k U Zuck; you had your chance with me. By then, I was
too busy anyway--in rehearsals for the Beall play.
Though recently, I have gone back on there to see if I can
identify who's a Russian troll, and I think I found one.
I guess the bottom line is Facebook has a right to make
billions selling everything it can get its hands on but somebody doing local
history can’t make an extra $5 or $10 trying to hype her play.
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