Maybe a plague on you. BUT IMO people most people who express this knee jerk reaction are just trying to tell all of us how they are superior to us 'mental midgets' that actual understand how social media is an amazing way we can keep in contact with 10s of people who love us, 1000s of friends, and millions of people who share one of our passions. Instead they get all upset about ads and the fact they joined groups that are hate bait.
It wasn't a knee Jerk reaction by me at all. I recently got back into rocketry after not doing anything for 10 years. Many Facebook pages are great, I know how to use Facebook and have since 2009. The only reason I use it is to keep in touch with family and share things. One of those now, being that I got back into Rocketry in May was to join some Facebook pages to learn, pass forward, and share what I learn to help others.
Now, I was under impression as are many others that a certain Facebook rocketry group is officially tied to the company. In all the excitement in rocketry being new, I didn't look past the the logo or the fact that it has 30k very active members. Well after reading some posts, seeing some pictures, and getting advice that was just horrible or made no sense. I read the page description a little more, and after several paragraphs at the bottom you see it was made in Massachusetts around 2018 or something by some random guy or kid. I was more bummed out and just stopped posting there, all together.
Well yesterday's morning had a conversion on another page, very polite about that page. It was about that page not being directly affiliated with Estes and I myself prefer now not to use it. Now this person continued to insist that it was official, he was the real deal. Until I told him it wasn't, then he changed his story. Then he started posting random comments that made little sense, then he messaged me first and told me I was being a ********, and if I was nicer I would have gotten further. For what reason other than I called him out politely and he got mad about it. Then proceeded to delete or permanent ban me from the pages.
You can't really go anywhere on social media anymore without at least one person, or most people just being straight out liars, fakes, not who they really are identify wise, cyber bullies, annoying, butting IN when they don't need too, and much more. People have no respect either because there's no instant repercussions on Facebook or any other platform. So is that me being mad or upset about an "ad" or group I joined being "hate bate" was it? And if that guy would like to defend himself, I took and have all the screenshots of the post and the nice private messages he sent me. You think a moderator for two groups would be a little nicer to people. Funny part is I violated nothing and wasn't even on the page he claimed was offical when he banned me from a totally different page not even related. But yet he deleted me from both and blocked me from them apparently. I was actually happy, I'd rather stick to the forum. More over here are a little more passionate and willing to share effective knowledge and advice.
