Rupert Dobbin / 21 May 2025 / Categories: Opinions, Internet, Freebies, Web Companies

Facebook Instagram X formerly Twitter which one should we use?

Some social media firms don’t want us these days

Social media platforms are a great way to connect with friends and build a community of like minded people, well I think that was the original intention Facebook becoming so familiar my parents generation often got confused 10 years ago thinking Facebook and the internet were one and the same. I remember sitting down and trying to explain what the internet is and how Facebook was just one of many many ways people connected online.

I had a Facebook account for a short time but I was one of probably the first people who used a name, my nickname actually everyone knows me by and in an early clean up of suspected spam accounts, my account got deleted, suspended and I spent weeks, if not months trying to get someone at Facebook, this was before they changed to Meta, to help me get it back up.

I realised early on this company had absolutely no interest in its users. I went on forums and left messages throughout the Facebook platform seeking help to get my account reinstated. I remember at the time feeling a bit like a freak I wasn’t on Facebook, and my FOMO (fear of missing out) did set in a bit. Fortunately my girlfriend was active and she kept me abreast of family and friends stories and images shared so even though I was excluded I got over it.

It’s funny now to see how the platform amidst so much negative press has become just an advertising portal with the real audience no longer enjoying the connection they once did, more experienced and more careful about what they share and with who. When writers and creatives realised their content and potentially life work was being exploited and used, perfectly legally for the development of AI tools by social media giants there was public uproar.

It’s pretty obvious to me any platform that exploits it’s community, let’s remember content is king and our data is the most valuable asset of all, and gives nothing back isn’t going to be sustainable.

Instagram also owned by meta has seen loads of api type businesses spring up around it offering consumers users a way to try and beat the algorithm and even offering ways to purchase followers something extremely common on the platform now, to make “influencers” appear more influential than they might actually be and gaining brand partnerships under somewhat false pretences.

And so companies like Brand Ambassador dot com have come about, the brain child of the founders of OnePiece clothing, pioneers, Norwegians Thomas Adams and Ole Fjelberg. As their clothing brand and e-commerce business grew to over a $200 million dollar business they needed to find a way to seamlessly link up their brand and their ambassadors whilst protecting all their data and creative content. Brand Ambassadors is one example of something evolving from need and then being used to help and serve other brands. In effect a need being fulfilled more ethically by new entries into a space dominated by a few names.

it’s the reason I joined Poopsnoop and now share my rants and ramblings here. The platform is moderated by the community so they won’t publish spam, or obvious marketing crap, and the community is protected for a small subscription fee. Worth it to my mind and my content remains mine.

I don’t have millions of social media accounts anymore although I did recently join X. I saw the Poopsnoop community active here sharing snoops and communicating amongst each other. I thought I’d join the party. This hasn’t been smooth. If you click my SM link for X you will notice my account is currently suspended. I have connected the suspended account for the purpose of this snoop.

I joined X, I liked a couple of Tweets and retweeted a couple of @Poopsnoopeditor tweets and bam I was barred.

It was reminiscent of what happened to me all those years ago on Facebook. Some things just aren’t meant to be. I’ve jumped through all the hoops in the X help files to get my account back up but so far no luck.

The interesting thing for me you cannot delete your account until you have tried to reactivate. Something I have tried doing, emailing 4 or 5 times and checking my email as instructed in hope of the much awaited response, yeah or nay so I can delete the account and move on.

So far nothing doing. Why I am sticking to Poopsnoop where the editors and moderators are real people I can actually speak to.