I Got Banned from Facebook for Calling a Baby a “Sweet Potato”

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viral article on Medium</a> that has made me over $500 and counting, <a href="https://readmedium.com/through-the-jungle-and-other-ways-to-escape-b3e47ea00543">shortlisted in a fiction contest</a>, and penned a work of microfiction that became my first work officially published by a <a href="https://101words.org/endings-3/">literary magazine</a>.</p><p id="b391">But I’m addicted to Facebook, so I appealed it.</p><p id="3664">I guess Facebook is now allowing people to appeal their decisions to the admins of the group where “offenders” like me posted the comment that went against “community standards.” Since I don’t trust Facebook’s bots, that’s what I did, and I shot a message to the group’s admins, who unsurprisingly agreed with me completely, and told Facebook as much.</p><p id="5469">So, Facebook reduced my sentence from a 30 day ban to a 6 day ban. Umm, thanks.</p><p id="7ebf">My birthday happened to fall in those 6 days, so now I look like an asshole that doesn’t even “like” her friends’ birthday messages. Umm, thanks.</p><p id="2ec0">But hey, at least Facebook is out there protecting babies from being compared to delicious orange tubers. M

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eanwhile, when I reported a thinly-disguised anti-Semitic comment that claimed that “the chosen people are all pedophiles,” I was told that’s absolutely fine according to their “community standards.”</p><p id="c91c">Great job you’re doing there, Facebook. Bravo.</p><p id="ac5e">What have you gotten kicked off Facebook for writing? Have you ever reported something way worse that Facebook thought was no problem? Let me know in the comments.</p><p id="b6e5">Check out the rest of my work here:</p><div id="ac8a" class="link-block"> <a href="https://melissabalick.medium.com/melissa-balicks-table-of-contents-423a87084dad"> <div> <div> <h2>Melissa Balick’s Table of Contents</h2> <div><h3>Here’s how to find Melissa’s fiction, microfiction, essays, and poetry.</h3></div> <div><p>melissabalick.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*ELn-j9ZCKsYntjMWRwUlqA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Apparently, “potato” is a bad word.

Because I’m super corny, I recently commented on a picture of a baby on Facebook, “You’re a little sweet potato!”

As soon as I’d hit “send,” I was immediately banned by the bots for 30 days. It specifically informed me that I was a bully because calling someone a “potato” was a comparison that is supposed to make them feel “less than.”

I swear I didn’t mean to bully that adorable little sweet potato.

Really, I should be happy I got banned from Facebook. The last time I received a 30 day ban for some stupid shit, I wrote a viral article on Medium that has made me over $500 and counting, shortlisted in a fiction contest, and penned a work of microfiction that became my first work officially published by a literary magazine.

But I’m addicted to Facebook, so I appealed it.

I guess Facebook is now allowing people to appeal their decisions to the admins of the group where “offenders” like me posted the comment that went against “community standards.” Since I don’t trust Facebook’s bots, that’s what I did, and I shot a message to the group’s admins, who unsurprisingly agreed with me completely, and told Facebook as much.

So, Facebook reduced my sentence from a 30 day ban to a 6 day ban. Umm, thanks.

My birthday happened to fall in those 6 days, so now I look like an asshole that doesn’t even “like” her friends’ birthday messages. Umm, thanks.

But hey, at least Facebook is out there protecting babies from being compared to delicious orange tubers. Meanwhile, when I reported a thinly-disguised anti-Semitic comment that claimed that “the chosen people are all pedophiles,” I was told that’s absolutely fine according to their “community standards.”

Great job you’re doing there, Facebook. Bravo.

What have you gotten kicked off Facebook for writing? Have you ever reported something way worse that Facebook thought was no problem? Let me know in the comments.

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