@West Side Joe posted:A bit of an aside here: Some of you know that I also post pics of this project on a Facebook group page called "Only The Finest In O-Gauge Railroading" run by Kelly Harris (oops: actually "Scale", not "Gauge"). Facebook has decided to lock my FB account, for no discernible reason other than "unusual activity", and is requiring that I upload copies of personal documents such as driver's license, identification cards, passport, utility bills or bank statements, in order to "prove" my identity.
I have no desire to provide such personal documents to a company that locks my account with no opportunity for discussion or appeal, so if any of you visit Kelly's FB page mentioned above, I'd appreciate your telling him that all the posts by "Justino Garcia" (my FB name) are no longer visible. Thankfully, I have never posted any pictures on FB that I didn't have copies of in hard copy or in other storage locations, so nothing lost there.
Perhaps there is no connection, but about a month ago, I sent a complaint to Facebook accusing them of rampant greed because in addition to selling my account activity information to the highest bidder, they had recently started flooding my feed with ads, so much so that every other post was an ad. I told them I thought it was unconscionable. Connection there? NAH!
Sorry for the rant. Back to the project.
Hello WS Joe (Justino)
GUESS WHAT !!
As you know Brian DeForest set me up on his own without my knowledge, last Nov. 2018, - to a new FB account. He set up a sign in (using his wife's cell phone number) ID - and set up a Password -- and listed a wildly incorrect date of birth for me for the acct.. Well, it worked - the acct opened and worked OK until the past 6 months past when issues cropped up here and there. But I could always LOG IN.
Finally I got a notice Tues 24th that "my" Facebook Account (under "IRT EL MAN" that he had up for me) was LOCKED. When I tried to follow the FB steps to unlock the account, the DOB info I posted (the exact DOB as he set in that account for me) I typed in correctly and it bounced back with a notice "The Birth Date you entered does not match the one on your your account!" - Well, I could not proceed any further!
I don't know if I can get back to FB at all -- or save the IRT EL MAN FB account -- because if it THAT account goes away -- all the media and material and historical data and info I posted will be deleted. 2 1/2 years valuable work and input vanished. I tried in Dec 2020 to set up my own legit personal separate FB acct with all valid data info about me -- and it opened up as a new FB Acct. for me successfully -- BUT -- then THAT new FB acct. was "Disabled" after about 8 hours on line even tho I never used it yet -- and 2 weeks later was Permanently Disabled and the action non-reversable.
FB doesn't even have any live customer service to help people thru things like this..to get them sorted and corrected, worked out !!! . They tell you to go on line to their HELP center but you have to be ABLE TO LOG IN FIRST to do that. I can't, heh, log in after being locked out ! What a joke !
Anyway- we are BOTH in the same boat now ! Regards ! - Joe F
