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On The Pen's avatar

I’ll upload the screenshots to the article

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Debbie Musielak's avatar

Funny thing is, I never was a member of the Facebook group. I follow you on nearly every other platform. My engagement with fb these days is minimal. They have stopped nothing!!

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On The Pen's avatar

I truly hate Facebook

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Debbie Musielak's avatar

Definitely! It’s all garbage ads and celebrity gossip. I have to be bored with many other platforms before I ever head there.

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Vicky Foss's avatar

Same. Follow On the Pen on several platforms and Facebook was never one of them.

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Nicole Relling's avatar

Same.

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SueThaDude's avatar

Big Tech has too much power.

Free Speech rules

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John's avatar

Meta has too much control of communications! I got nuked two weeks ago after I said something someone didn’t like. All my memories gone. So much is posted about community events, news from local government, weather announcements, etc. The fact that really the only way to sell anything and follow local things should make things like this illegal.

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On The Pen's avatar

Insanity. Too much power. That’s why this platform and building an email list is so important to me.

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Greg Pack's avatar

I didn’t even know there was an OTP FB group but I haven’t missed a day of OTP in eight months.

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On The Pen's avatar

Appreciate that Greg

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Kirsten Whatley's avatar

Facebook does suck but it’s also an important community-facilitating platform with jillions of people’s lives on it. I don’t spend much time there myself but I still hope you get the OTP FB reinstated. Silencing should not stand. On the other paw if it drives more folks here that could be a silver lining.

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Linda Eaves's avatar

Didn't even know there was a facebook group. I like it here.

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Kelly Murphy's avatar

Crazy! I got hacked on FB 2 years ago and they wouldn’t recognize that it was a hack. I gave up and haven’t looked back. I don’t miss it at all. They can pound sand.

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Debbie Meyer's avatar

FB- is such an old platform. YOU don’t need them WE GOT YOU on other platforms! THANK YOU DAVE! You ROCK!!

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Virginia Pedersen's avatar

I want to understand the INCENTIVE behind the FACEBOOK DECISION to shut down the On The Pen group? Please, why would Facebook do this?

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On The Pen's avatar

Compounds.

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Virginia Pedersen's avatar

Dang. What pony does FB have in the Compound race???

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On The Pen's avatar

Big pharma wields its marketing dollars power to make sure they snuff out competition.

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PJ Shop's avatar

And at the same time, FB is absolutely LOADED with GLP-1 compound vendor advertisements. Crazy! It’s all about the Benjamins.

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Virginia Pedersen's avatar

What is “the Benjamins”????

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PJ Shop's avatar

Benjamins is another word for money.

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PamE's avatar

Was there any reason given for them shutting it down? Is there anything we can do to help get it re-opened? Or do we even want to stay on FB??

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Nurse Ann's avatar

I’ll drink to this movement and you Dave every day! (Water of course!) 🤣🤷‍♀️

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Joan Breibart's avatar

FB deleted 80bites.com when we spoke about GLP-1. They hate it that 65% of the population is obese and the dopey diets and crazy exercise upset their hormones so they became ravenously hungry. You will have a big fight . We sent them vis FED EX a dossier of written materials and they never responded. Mark Z and friends just love wellness!.

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Elisa's avatar

Am not sure I know which group this was? Am a member of several and I generally just casually lurk and read for interest with only occasional commenting. It seems ridiculous that the group got cancelled ; there are several still there that have very low value, imo. Weird. Anywho, I think being here is perfect. I call this (substack) the place I do for smart content :)

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Ray Bronson-Nicholson's avatar

I dislike fb so much I wish it was broken up.

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Melissa (Tirz_Queeney)'s avatar

They totally eliminated my tirzepatide group yesterday as well. It wasn't nearly as large, but it took months to get us to nearly 1,000 members. It really ticks me off that they imply that we are selling drugs when we aren't selling anything. In my case, the most I ever did was recommend a reputable, fully LEGAL telehealth provider and share my own experience. The nanny state nonsense needs to end.

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