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Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory — Traffic

He wears glasses during math because it improves division

White Bird — It's A Beautiful Day

The only META/FB phone number I found was not answered. There is a recording telling you which website to go to for which problem, and when you go there, they give you all the answers to the most common problems. But if your problem doesn't fit in, there is no chat, e-mail, or phone number to get help. Since I can't sign in, I created another FB account. I figured I could perhaps get help if I could log in (silly me). And here is what happened after I signed in. I did a search and got a META help page and got my hopes up! A seemingly nice guy messaged me, and said he could help. He asked general questions, mostly about what I was experiencing, what the error messages said, what steps did I take, and in what order. This went on to the second day. Then he said, he'd have to get some tools and debugging equipment. Sounds good, and we chatted a bit more. I asked him if he could tell why I was locked, and he said I broke a FB rule. I answer that I don't get political online, I try to be nice to everybody, I don't spam, and can't see where I broke a rule. He responded that there are some crazy rules that you wouldn't think were illegal. Then he said, if I buy the tools, I can probably resell them. That's when the big red flag and the buzzer horn went off in my brain. I told him that I know I'm the product, not the customer, and I have no intention of paying for help. I thanked him for his time, wished him luck, and ended the conversation. I don't know if he is a scammer, or someone doing work for hire. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. So it looks like I'll have to kiss my Sophisticats page on FB good-bye. I might make another some day, but right now I'm learning some new songs for our duo. I've wasted too much time on this dog already. I'm glad I was very careful about the information I gave the guy, just in case. As far as I'm concerned, FB is more trouble than it's worth. Hire human help for unusual situations.

I'm addicted to seaweed. I must seek kelp.

I still can't get unlocked. ||: Your account is locked. Do this and you will get unlocked. OK. Now you are no longer locked. Go ahead and log in again :|| repeat ad infinitum. There is zero human help. It's obviously a glitch in the software, so the bots keep thinking they are solving the problem when they are not. I've tried everything I can find, probably spent more time on this than I should have, but now I think it's time to give up.

Lonesome Cowboy — Elvis Presley

I went swimming in England and something brushed against my 'eel.

Can't find any help on FB except for bots, that keep telling me that my page is now available, but when I log in it tells me it's locked, makes me jump through the hoops, then tells me it'unlocked, and so on ad infinitum. If the social media contractor for one of the venues that I gig regularly at didn't convince me to join FB, I wouldn't have. And now I know what I avoided FB for so many years. I'm now getting 4 or more e-mails per day telling me I need to unlock my account, which just points me to square on of the endless loop again. My advice is this: If anyone tells you that you have to join FB - DON'T DO IT!!! Do yourself a favor. Notes ♫

Walking On Air — Katy Perry

I think it's just 'juice'

Hot Hot Hot - Arrow (The original, not the wimpy USA cover by Johansen)

Still locked out. To add insult to injury they keep emailing me "Reminder to unlock your facebook account" which just puts me through the endless loop again. And for more insults, they are now telling me I have messages, and when I try to log in to read them - you guessed it.

Good thinking, but alas it doesn't work. Plus I'm getting every couple of hours, from FB Hi Bob, You’ve not yet unlocked your Facebook account. Your unlock link will expire on June 27 2024 at 7:20 PM so please log into your account before that. And when I log in, it tells me I'm blocked.

Other than the https://facebook.com/thesophisticatsband site on FB, I wouldn't care one bit if I ever saw FB again. I had notices in my e-mail that I have messages waiting, I logged in, it did the verification thing and locked me out. If it weren't for those messages, I wouldn't care. But it's rude not to answer a message, and it might be someone wanting to hire us. What gets me about FB, is there is zero help. No chat, no phone, no bots, no nothing. No way to get ahold of anyone that I can find, without logging in first, and I can't log in. I'm stuck in a loop, ||: I jump through the hoops, they e-mail me that my account is no longer locked, tell me how to log on with a temporary password, I do, and it tells me I'm locked out again. :|| repeat ad infinitum. I don't give a $#!T about fb, just the potential business contacts. It's very frustrating, and after 2 days of this bullcrap, I give up. I've had a web page http://www.s-cats.com for decades. Anyone can visit it, whether they are FB members or not. You would think that's enough. But the person handling the social media account of the resort I frequently gig at, obviously thinks that there isn't anything on the web but FB ,TikTok, Insta, X, and all the other membership only sites. If I ever meet Zuckerwhateverhisnameis, you can bet I'd deliver a huge sucker-punch and proceed to beat him to a pulp (and by nature I'm not a violent man - but this displays my level of frustration.)

From FB: You can only add a third-party authentication app or other two-factor authentication method if you already have access to your Facebook account. I can't get in. I'm stuck in an evil loop. They tell me I'm OK, give me a link to log back in, it tells me I'm locked out, and starts the whole ordeal over again. I'm beginning to think this FB thing just isn't worth it.

I have a cell phone, but never put FB on it. What is the FB Authenticator App? Will it work on Windows? (Heading to google right now) Thanks. Notes ♫

Three Little Birds — Bob Marley and the Wailers I'll leave the ******* to themselves. Have fun gals.

To Gloria Kunt?

Perhaps I just misspelled it.

Thanks y'all for the suggestions. - - - I tried off the VPN. - - - They asked for a picture of positive ID, which I supplied. Hours later they said click this link to get back on. I did. They sent me a code and asked me to paste it in. I did. It gave me the error message again, I clicked re-send. I copied it in carefully. They locked me out again. - - - I wish there was someone I could abuse by shouting great obscenities at. If it weren't for that bar/restaurant that hires us asking for a FB site their social media company can link to, I'd have been outta here long ago. I've been in the same duo since 1985. The only time we were out of work was during the COVID lockdown. I did just fine without FB, and will do just fine without it. I run a mailing list of over 500 fans and send them schedules right to their in-box. (I don't need no stinking facebook) The thing that amazes me, I have a website which is available to anyone with an Internet connection. http://www.s-cats.com or if you need a secure link https://www.nortonmusic.com/cats/ Why would commercial places limit their exposure to Facebook? Why limit your audience to only fb members? Add FB but don't make it your main or only source of online promotion. And why can't a social media company link to my website on FB? It's much better organized than what I've seen of FB pages. Some things just baffle me. Notes ♫ (sorry for the minor rant)

I quit it during the Clinton/Trump election, way too much BS and hateful lies from both sides of the divide. The club I frequently work at has a company handling their social media. That person says she can't link to my website, just another facebook account. So I went back on. It's a huge time waster, and if I can't get back on this time, I'll never return. I did fine without it for all these years. I can't see how something so buggy can be so popular. But I guess I'm intolerant about things that don't work right.