Poll of the Day > Has Facebook been extra "spammy" lately for anyone else?

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I check Facebook like twice a year and mostly still have it out of inertia. I have it linked to an email address I specifically use for sign ups that generate a lot of spam emails, so I can in turn just ignore all of it.
A few days ago on my main, actual email address that I use for professional contacts, resume, etc... I got a suspicious email sending me a "Facebook recovery code" I never asked for. Hell, it's been like over half a year since I went there. It was from [email protected] and wanted me to click a link to "let us know" if I didn't request a recovery code. It looked like a phishing attempt, honestly.
Looking into it, apparently this is a legit facebook email account, so I clicked it to let them know I didn't request it.
Ever since then, all the stupid "person on your friends list posted an update!" emails that used to go to the spam email address I had my FB account connected to are popping up in my real email inbox.
I wasn't even sure if I ever gave FB my real email (maybe I did, fuck if I know?) so I tried going on FB to check and... my password didn't work. I clicked "forgot password" and it pops up:

You�re Temporarily Blocked

It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You�ve been temporarily blocked from using it.
If you think this doesn't go against our Community Standards let us know.

The fuck? Other than clicking to let them know I didn't request a recovery code, this has been the sum total of all my FB activity in the past 6+ months. Was I hacked or something? Or is it some ploy by FB to dupe me into being more active?

I stopped using Facebook like last October because I'd get modded for anything that didn't support right wing rhetoric or white supremacy lol it's wild over there rn

and people didn't believe me when I said big tech is being overthrown by the alt-right

So..after clicking on my profile pic I was logged in like nothing happened.

I legit can't tell if I was hacked or FB is just being sketchy as hell.

Definitely, its more like Twitter with a lot of for you posts showing now. I cant figure out how to get them to not show up either.

A bunch of incel losers in my Facebook feed keep whining about the Barbie movie hating them for existing or some shit lmao bunch of clowns

SwollenColon posted...

A bunch of incel losers in my Facebook feed keep whining about the Barbie movie hating them for existing or some shit lmao bunch of clowns

LOL

I haven't had a facebook account since 2014.

Everyday, I get an e-mail saying that I requested to change my password.

I've had that 'It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast' error before (weirdly I couldn't view things such as liked pages). I think essentially it has falsely recognised you as a bot, and appealing doesn't do anything. In my case after a few weeks the error naturally stopped occurring.