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Steve Gluck

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Sep 9, 2020, 5:42:56 PM9/9/20
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I might be jumping the gun here a bit ... and maybe I'm getting a little paranoid because I've been banned from so many FaceBook groups ...  (for no reason) ...

... but I can't access FaceBook at all now ... all I get is a blank screen ...

Is FaceBook down? ... does anyone know? ... or have I been banned from everything? ...

... Wednesday ... September 9th ... 5:40pm ... 

Steve

Steve Gluck

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Sep 9, 2020, 5:47:17 PM9/9/20
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Never mind ... it's back up and running ... … 😊 …

Garry

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Sep 9, 2020, 7:52:23 PM9/9/20
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Steve... I found out one day a number of years ago that I could not access my Facebook.... their resolution was for me to send a copy of my birth certificate to prove I am who I am... Never went back and don’t miss it. I find social media too inflammatory and back in the day the word was be careful how you communicate in e mails... that went out the window with social media. 

On Sep 9, 2020, at 5:47 PM, Steve Gluck <St...@stevegluck.com> wrote:

Never mind ... it's back up and running ... … 😊 …
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Joseph Navarro

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Sep 10, 2020, 8:47:56 AM9/10/20
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Gary 
Couldn’t agree more 
I no longer want to be a targeted unit if consumption .
Also , who is actually honest on Facebook ?
I git tired of the endless fluff , “ likes “,  aspirational images , constant stream of sunsets etc etc .
These coupled with the bad actors and suspect “ news “ convinced me it was time to opt out .
Regards 
Joe



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Stephen Marengo

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Sep 10, 2020, 4:20:38 PM9/10/20
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This was "posted" on a light pole outside the gym. Kind of sums up my feeling on facebook

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Thomas Russo

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Sep 10, 2020, 5:25:44 PM9/10/20
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Never had a Facebook account.  Somewhat bemused at how easily people have substituted this medium for real world connection to others.  More distressing is the lack of regulation/ accountability for misinformation, propaganda, and malicious information shared on this platform.  Sadly most Americans are getting their news and information from Facebook. 

Joseph Navarro

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Sep 10, 2020, 6:06:51 PM9/10/20
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Indeed 
Not just The US 
A third of the Planet and increasing .
I had an account mainly to keep o touch with my  Italian relatives . Only  posted Encouragement to donate to a number of environmental ,  wildlife refugee ,charitable organizations . Never posted a “ like “ any personal information and certainly not vacation pictures nor selfies .
Hope you’re well 
Regards 
Joe 



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On Sep 10, 2020, at 5:25 PM, 'Thomas Russo' via Brooklyn Prep Class of 1969 <brooklyn-prep...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 Never had a Facebook account.  Somewhat bemused at how easily people have substituted this medium for real world connection to others.  More distressing is the lack of regulation/ accountability for misinformation, propaganda, and malicious information shared on this platform.  Sadly most Americans are getting their news and information from Facebook. 

Steve Gluck

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Sep 10, 2020, 8:07:55 PM9/10/20
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Not to bring everyone down … and being somewhat in agreement with many of the comments and criticisms of FB …

For the past year and a half I have been mostly bed-ridden … (much longer actually … it’s a wonder I was able to make it to our 50th) … not all-day everyday … but my waking hours are about equally divided between distress … extreme distress … and agony … (often tilted toward agony) …

I had over 30 doctor’s appointments with various physicians last year and none of them know what’s going on …

The odd thing is that on good days I look so good … vigorous, vibrant and healthy … that they don’t even seem to believe how sick I am … I even went into therapy last year just to try and figure out why I can’t get anyone to believe me …

I had to cancel two trips out west to see my kids and grandkids because I was too sick to travel … and I have a feeling sometimes that I may never be well enough to travel again.

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Plus … several years ago I was totally disowned by my large, close-knit, extended family ... after I discovered that they’d cheated me out of a quarter of a million dollars … no family reunions, holidays, birthday parties, weddings, funerals … none of that stuff …

The only social event I’ve been to in the past 5 years or so was our 50th … (also the only time I can think of that I’ve had a meal I didn’t prepare myself) …

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AND … I live on a town where I don’t hardly know anyone that is filled with bikers and gun-nuts who absolutely hate me … and make that fact known … so I have absolutely zero social life here …

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Hell … if my son Dominick didn’t call me every Sunday … as he has ever since I was released from the hospital after my heart attack in 2009 … the only people I would ever talk to are the check-out girls at the supermarket and the baristas at Starbucks …

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It’s a little bit, in some small way I think, like being in solitary …

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On the other hand … my spirits are good … I’m working as hard as possible on a bunch of stuff … and I keep telling myself that I’m getting better … looking forward to getting back in the gym … and hopefully, moving back out west at some point to be closer to the kids …

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But in the meantime it’s just about all I can do to get through the day and keep myself fed and washed. I try to keep the kitchen bathroom sort of up to snuff … but otherwise I live in filth and squalor … and there isn’t much I can do about it … as the forest slowly encroaches in on me …

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So if I feel well-enough to sit at my computer and get on FaceBook for at least some kind of discourse … well … that’s enough … it’s something anyway …

You never know what’s going on in peoples’ lives …

Paul Herzman

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Sep 11, 2020, 3:23:39 PM9/11/20
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Very sorry to hear this, Steve. I hope things turn around for you soon.
Keeping you in my thoughts until then,

Paul

Steve Gluck

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Apr 13, 2021, 6:28:11 AM4/13/21
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Hey Paul ... has your FB account been hacked? ... (just checking) ... 😊 ...

Steve Gluck

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Apr 13, 2021, 10:40:07 AM4/13/21
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Follow-Up ... Paul ... I think someone hacked your FB account and friended me ... 
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