Dear Meta Gods
I am writing to you today to express my displeasure at the anti-social behaviour of your bots and algorithms.
I should perhaps backtrack and thank you for your early Christmas gift that you presented me with on Christmas Even 2024 when you shut down my page, The Myles Kennedy Fan Page, for impersonation. You never even left a right of appeal open to me. The clue to the page’s purpose was in the name. The page had been running for well over a decade with 68000 plus followers without any issues or complaints. How can a clearly labelled, long standing page suddenly be shut down for impersonation? Oh…because you said so.
I sought support from your Help Center, but it should be renamed the UnHelpful Center as it there was no help to be found there.
I reported the problem via your Feedback options within the tools available to me daily for five months in an attempt to find some help and again found no help there. Report A Problem should perhaps be renamed Pretend the Problem Isn’t There.
While the original page remained suspended, in an attempt to still provide updates to the Myles Kennedy fans and to show support for the man himself, I began to rebuild. I created a new page, called MKFP v2 and clearly labelled it as a music fan page. In the “about” section I clearly stated that this was not an attempt to impersonate Myles.
Last week I surrendered and gave up trying to raise the dead in an attempt to get help for the original suspension issue.
I amended the name of MKFP V2 to Myles Kennedy FanPage V2 and your spy bots didn’t object or reject the name as they had when I initially set the page up. The name change was allowed. Again, the clue to the purpose of the page is in the name yet within 48 hrs, you shut it down again for impersonation. I had one chance to ask for the decision to be reviewed. I chose the most appropriate option you presented me with, “my page has been misunderstood” but you rejected this and again removed all right to appeal the decision.
Something I find strange though is that the dozens of fake profiles and fraudsters who attempt to impersonate celebrities or lure fans to third party sites to extort information and money from them appear to comply with your Community Standards as you seldom remove them when they are reported to you.
You should perhaps consider renaming your social media platform as an anti-social media platform.
So, I’ll end this by thanking you for destroying more than a decade of love and support for an outstanding musician and for depriving thousands of loyal fans from receiving updates and tour information and from sharing their memories of shows or their love of the songs.
Yours
A Disillusioned Page Owner and Admin
Coral McCallum 