Why Bother?

 I think you should bother but these days, why?  You can generally spot a scam a mile off and Facebook is full of them.  Recently there is a spate of settees and sofas as well as beds and mattresses for sale in the various groups.  They al follow the same pattern, the seller has a strange name and they "work" for strange places.  Some are just obviously wrong and where the were educated, where they love and the location of the goods are quite different.  Many have the same item for sale as the others with identical photos and prices.

Now, when you then see that the vast majority have only been members for a week (or less) and that the advert provides free delivery and cash on collection (only) then I start to wonder how they can do this.  So a Sofa about 350 miles from me will set me back £300.  So that's anywhere in the country they'll "deliver" this.  You just know that it is a scam and they'll relieve some poor person who's saved up for a Sofa of the £300 and perhaps a bit more and they'll either get nothing or perhaps something that's been recycled and is not fit for purpose.

Apparently when I reported a whole bact of these scammers they "Don't break our community standards" or as I read it how low can you go.  The problem is that these damn adverts are shoved into your timeline all the time it was obvious there was something going on but their AI didn't pick it up and when the users send in a report they don't pick it up either.

So is it worth it?  I just block these people on sight now and have done with it.  From what it was meant to be to what it is now, Facebook and the others are shadows of their original intention.  So in many ways, I just use it sparingly now.  It's not worth spending time on making it a community or to help it understand the rubbish thrown at the users.

A bit like Instagram who want more content and I spend quite some time presenting a little more content and nic graphics only to get them on three occasions in three months decide that it is not the sort of content they want and they think it is Spam!  Recovering your account is a nuisance for sure so now I have actually posted up various tins of Spam to see what they think of that!  They can't have it both ways can they.  If you need the content and the users, why p1ss the off with your AI trolling of my content?  Ho hum.  It's best not to worry about or use these things other than to gain the SEO from it!