As those of you who follow me know, I have a myriad of health issues that prevent me from working a regular job anymore.
Since becoming disabled in 2006 I have had an AVON business that has provided me with enough money to stay home and build that business, in order to contribute to the family Kitty. I have had business pages and groups set up on Facebook during that time but suddenly it seems I have offended the Facebook gods because they have unpublished one of my pages and shut down one of my groups, and right now are not allowing me to post in the groups that I admin. This is very annoying as two of them are for other representatives, one of which is for my team members, for encouragement and training , and at the moment I am unable to work in them.
I take my job very seriously, I am not the sort of person who harasses my team members to produce, produce, produce, but I try to be there when they need me, and to provide information that is useful to them which they can either choose to use or not. I see my job as being there to support them in their vision of how they want to run their business.
I do not understand why Facebook would find this threatening in any way or claim that it goes against community standards.
I do share a lot of things, and sometimes they go to two or three groups at a time because I need the people in them to have the information. With my business advertising, there are only a couple of groups that I post in other than my own private groups, so it should not bother them that I am posting in them because people have chosen to join those groups and are expecting there to be advertising in there.
Friends have suggested that maybe it is another representative who is jealous of what they perceive as my success. My business has suffered, like a lot of other peoples, during COVID and then these hard economic times, my income now is about 1/3 of what it was a few years ago. I do not claim Social Security disability, I have chosen to support myself as best I can with my AVON, so it actually hurts my feelings that somebody might do this to me and be reporting things that I post, as they could only be in one or other of the groups that I administrate. It also hurts me to think that somebody would be that petty within the Avon family. Over the years I have helped so many people who are not on my team, I have spent hours explaining things on the telephone, sending emails and sharing information with people I have never met and whose businesses do not help me in any way, but that did not stop me because I see a joy in helping somebody else succeed. I do not believe that not being nice gets you anywhere.
As somebody who is disabled - and works around that disability to the best of my ability - it always annoys me when people feel they have to score over somebody like me. I have a neighbour who, when he moved in began causing me issues, and I feel bad that somebody is so weak and such a sad person that the only way they can make their self feel better was to harass somebody like me. I have no respect for him. I had tried to be a good neighbour when they moved in but now choose to have nothing to do with them.
Likewise, Facebook. The page that they shut down and unpublished, they were quite happy taking advertising money from me for it a couple of years ago and changed my audience to a different country so that the leads that I was getting was from South Africa and not the USA. At the time I did not realise this period it was a few months later after i had commented to people that I was getting an awful lot of inquiries from South Africa. I had gone onto the page to promote another ad and wanted to put it to where it was shown to people within a 50 mile radius of me and I got an error message telling me that I could not post this because it was in the wrong country. Although my audience choice showed the USA, the map showed South Africa and no matter how I tried to change it it kept telling me that I couldn't post in the USA. At that point I realized why I had had all the inquiries from South Africa, and so I stopped boosting posts from that page since I could not change my audience to my local area. but they had taken my money for quite a few months, which was a waste to me as I was trying to help people in another country get started in their country and was not helping my business at all, which had been the point of my advertising.
The other thing being that there is no way to argue with Facebook, they do not respond to any disputes that you may have or any complaints.
It is all very frustrating to me and sadly, because of my blood pressure issues, it affects my health. It also disappoints me and saddens me because I feel like I am letting my team members down when I cannot keep them abreast of everything, and they go to the group to check on stuff because they don't check their emails.
It is times like this that I do get resentful of my inability to do things that I used to, if I could still walk normally I could canvas local areas and talk to people more. If I could still sit for longer periods of time, without my legs swelling and my blood pressure going up which is weird that is what happens if I sit too long, then I would still be able to go out and do events, and if I could walk and climb stairs I could still go do house parties to promote my wares. Unfortunately all of those options are now unavailable to me which is why I have spent a lot of time building my business online these past 16 years. So at the moment I cannot do anything in any of the groups or on my business pages and they shut the one down on me totally and the one group so they are gone forever. It is frustrating, unfortunately with it being a free site they rule the roost and can persecute whoever they want. Not sure why somebody thinks that it's great to score points of somebody like me but Oh well I guess, this world is full of all sorts of people and entities.
