Sadly the Bird Bites Facebook page is no longer – it was collateral damage to some really bad policies and actions from Meta. This video explains what happened
And I also wrote this letter to the editor of the Toowoomba Chronicle:
I was recently faced with an unenviable choice by Facebook and its parent company Meta. For reasons that were never fully explained they had come to the conclusion my personal Facebook account was fake. They’d reached that conclusion once before, around two years ago, and asked me to upload my drivers license as proof of my authenticity. I begrudgingly agreed and sailed on fine for another two years, until they came to that conclusion again. This time they wanted me to record a video of my face from various angles, so they could carry out a biometric analysis, again to see if I was genuine. This seemed like a terrible invasion of privacy and complete overreach. However as the admin of one work related page, and my own Bird Bites group with over 1300 members (most of whom are in the local Toowoomba area) I really was stuck.
I thought about it and finally relented and gave them the video – which they duly analysed, but my account was only partially re-instated. I received an email the following morning, detailing further restrictions, and what I would have to do to be fully re-instated. This was just too much though, and I decided regrettably to cancel the account. And with that all my contacts and content were erased. What will they do with all the data they’ve harvested from me – I have no idea. But with the declining user experience on Facebook and all the AI generated rubbish on there – I’m better off without it anyway. But as a caution to readers – be careful how invested on it you get.