Facebook is broken, it's semi-functional, functional enough that the average user probably doesn't realize how badly it's broken. You may have noticed some page lag, slow loading, failure to load, site unreachable timeouts that seem to correct when you refresh the page.
See I thought I was in facebook jail being punished for complaining but now I'm pretty sure facebook is just broken. 11 days ago I wrote the post Thanks a lot Facebook complaining about my business page blanking out years worth of historical activity data. I thought it was a glitch or server brain fart but it has never come back, apparently it's not likely to either. 😩 I thought I was being punished because 4 days ago I posted a link to one of my instagram posts and it got no views, literally its been 4 days it has 1 person reached so obviously it was never served up to my 100+ followers. 😒 In October I was averaging 40-170 people reached per post now in November it's 2, 15, 1, 10 ridiculous. So the instagram share post with it's pathetic single view I was considering "boosting" but the button says "boost unavailable". 😮 I clicked the link and tried to figure out why but it doesn't seem to make any sense none of the reasons listed seem to apply. 😵
So I posted a fresh post yesterday about the layered sale in my shop, actually wrote the post on facebook not a shared post from somewhere else. It seemed to work better, it gave me a boost button but when I tried it failed, it gave me some error. It looked weird it wouldn't give an estimated audience like it normally does and it error-ed and failed. I tried 3 times yesterday and after it would fault out I would get a notification from facebook encouraging me to boost my recent post "page admins boosted similar posts. .yadda . yadda." . 😫 Why keep telling me to do a thing that is clearly not functioning?!?!
So this morning I tried again and again and I think it finally went through but popped up a box that they received my request and my ad would be reviewed and could take up to 15 minutes to be approved. 😕 This is weird, I've had the page for over 2 years this is not the first time I've advertised, my payment method is confirmed and unchanged, it's jewelry nothing offensive to be reviewed. Previously it's been about 30 seconds between clicking the submit and getting the notification of approval not 15 damn minutes. So I checked and it now says approved and I never got the notification of approval.
Something is very wrong with Facebook. I complained to my husband about the weirdness over a week ago and he admitted while "facebook jail" is real and facebook does punish people who complain or cause problems it's not likely that that is happening in my case as my page is such "small potatoes". However, he told me of a much larger problem with extreme and prolonged cyber attacks on the backside of facebook, for about 2 weeks they have been jedi style cyber battling and it's all hush-hush no one is supposed to know or talk about it. Hey I just got the notification of my ad approval. I hope they get this under control soon because it's starting to get ridiculous. I got a 1 notification on my page but when I clicked it and went to the notification page there is nothing there, literally the most recent thing is yesterday nagging me to boost the post not even the ad approval shows. 😐 Although, it clearly has been approved because when I look at the page the post shows it as an active promotion. Also it went from 11 people reached to 51 people reached in a matter of a minute after a page refresh so now I'm questioning if that is actually valid and accurate. 😵 It's just weirdness and inconsistency that I'm not used to seeing on Facebook and it's been going on for a while now. I hope they get it together soon as it is normally one of my best advertising options for my etsy shop but not if it's not functioning. 😩
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