(First published March 18, 2020 on Facebook)
This is just a quick one today. Yesterday Facebook sent me two notices that I broke the community standards by sending out Spam. They specifically referenced my book recommendations for Full Catastrophe Living and The Nix. What is funny is that they sent me a copy of the community standards and their aim to create a space for expression and give people a voice to build community and bring the world together. But that is what I was trying to do! ??? I think what happened is that I started each post with the same verbatim line and then provided links to a corporate website (amazon). My guess is a bot picked it up and flagged it as Spam. Otherwise, someone actually reported it as Spam, which would be kind of sad because I am recommending books to read to stay sane during a pandemic. One of you must really hate books!!! Either way, I’m not going to give up. I’m in the process of creating a WordPress blog site for these so Zuckerberg keeps his hands off them. If you can no longer see those posts they will be on the blog soon. But for now, here is my day #5 recommendation!
“Becoming,” by Michelle Obama, is the best autobiography I read this year. I have a ton of conservative friends whom I love and value, and I especially hope some of you will take the time to read Michelle’s story. You may discover Michelle is not the monster you have heard about in the media. She does not hate America and, believe it or not; she was not even very enthusiastic about Barrack running for office. Here is my challenge to my conservative friends: you read this and then message me a book you’d like me to read. When we’re both finished, we can have a Zoom conversation about the books and discover some things we have in common.
Michael Ferber 