Facebook messenger silently censors SMS messages (Conspiracy)

submitted ago by Fateswebb

I found that Facebook messenger is silently censoring and blocking certain SMS text messages without even warning it's users.

I was in person with a friend today, and they had some friends in town from Cuba we we're going to meet them and have dinner together. On the way to dinner I discussed with my friend an article I had read about how Fidel Castro's son left a suicide note claiming that Justin Trudeau is his half brother and Fidel Castro's son.

I showed her the article, and she asked that I send it to her so she could forward it to her friends.

I used Facebook messenger to send it to her as an SMS. (We were together at the time) I assumed she would get it and we went on with our dinner with her friends from Cuba. She kept asking me why I didn't send it and I kept saying I did. She didn't get the link, ut she did get other unrelated pictures I had sent in the meantime just not the link... So I again sent the link... Again using messenger to send the SMS. still she didn't get the second message. So I then used messenger to send it to her Facebook rather than SMS. And it gave me an error saying I could not send the message. And acted like the user had blocked me from sending messages. Which being with her at the time I knew wasn't so.. However if I just said hi.. with no link it would go through. So that made it clear that Facebook was blocking the link. EVEN SILENTLY BLOCKING it on SMS, Which Facebook shouldn't even be able to do if you ask me.

Then the same link I tried as a Facebook comment, and post and both are blocked as well.

Here is the link.

http://whatsupic.com/index/cuba-justin-trudeau-fidel-castros-son/

I find it very disturbing that Facebook can decide which SMS messages to send and even do so silently without telling you the message was blocked. So it would appear that all of your sms messages are ran across Facebook servers to check if they think it's something they approve of you sending before it will send the text message. And all I can say is WHAT THE FUCK FACEBOOK?? Needless to say I set a different app as my sms app, and blocked messenger from permissions to SMS.

I know Facebook is bullshit so spare me the lecture, I have friends that only use messenger for one reason or another so deleting it isn't an option, but I was using the SMS functionality as a convienience so I could have just one app do both. But those days are over with this revelation that apparently Facebook is monitoring SMS messages and even silently blocking them. I wouldn't have known she didn't get my message if I hadn't been with her at the time ..

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Hand_of_Node ago

I have friends that only use messenger for one reason or another so deleting it isn't an option,

What? How can you possibly justify being friends with a facebook user? What the hell?

Fateswebb ago

Cute.. I would be completely isolated if I weren't every single person I know is on there, and even a couple of their dogs. LITERALLY.

Hand_of_Node ago

Dump it and choose to associate with real people. Or be the kind of person who uses faceberg, even though its owner and founder called you a "dumb fuck" for trusting him. LITERALLY.

Fateswebb ago

So what you're saying is I should disacxoiate with my mother, my sister, all my friends and my lady as well. Dude like 85 percent of the population uses Facebook these days. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but you're simply not being realistic.

Hand_of_Node ago

There are some choices that are essentially impossible to recover from. It sounds like you're right that it's probably too late to correct.

Fateswebb ago

I just want to know where you meet these people that aren't on facebook. And what do you do open the conversation with them asking if they are on Facebook? I live in a metropolitan area, one of the biggest in the nation, and literally everyone from 13 to 65 with extremely rare exception are on there. Actually I can't off the top of my head think of a single person that isn't. So like I said I would be pretty lonely if I took that stance. It would be me and my dog and that's it. Not because of decisions I made, but because of decisions that quite literally every single person has made. That would be like saying don't be friends with people that have a left pinky toe. Basically everyone does and the ones that don't you wouldn't know because they're wearing shoes......