Pat Hawks

I did a little digging and figured out why that social networking site decided to block me this afternoon.

I had my profile setup to automaticly import my new blog entries as notes. This is a common practice, and there's nothing spammy about it.
Sometime this weekend, I guess their server went nuts and imported my blog several times, so there were multiple copies of each entry. This made it look like I was posting the same thing multiple times, which looks spammy.
That's when Facebook decided to teach me a lesson and disable my account for a little while.

It was because of a glitch on their end that this whole episode happened, mind you.

I have since logged into my account and everything is fine, except that I am still forbidden to post or import notes.

This morning I tried to log in to a certain social site , only to find out that I have been temporarily blocked.
Why?
According to the generic message in the FAQ, "Facebook has determined that you were using a feature at a rate that is likely to be abusive. Before you were blocked, you were given a warning to slow down your use of this feature."

For the record, I never received any warning.
I can only assume they are upset that I import my blog to my profile (because I don't do much else on that site anymore). That is usually one or two posts a week. Doesn't seem like "a rate that is likely to be abusive" to me.

So how often am I allowed to post notes?
"Unfortunately, Facebook cannot provide any specifics on the rate limits that we enforce."

Oh. Ok.

I am not offended at all, in fact I think this is kind of funny. In the world of blogging, getting blocked my those guys is something of a badge of honor.

So, I won't be poking anybody for a while. Maybe this will be a good opportunity to focus on real relationships for a while?
So, instead of writing on my wall, try calling me.

This is the eighth in a series of (hopefully) 52 posts related to the book Every Monday Matters. I'd love it if some other people wanted to go through the book with me. Contact me if you're interested.

Hey I'm Pat Hawks and I'm here with my buddy Colby the Pizza Guy.
What's happening Colby?
What up guys!?

Hey Colby, what do you do for a living?
Dude, I deliver Pizza all day every day
And thus the name!

This is Every Monday Matters week number 8
Feed the hungry, baby!

Alright, Colby the Pizza Guy, so what's your plan for feeding the hungry today?
Well, I figure, I get a 50% discount, so let's get some 50% off pizza and feed the hungry.
Right on!

We've got our first delivery of the night. What are we about to do Colby?
Oh, we're gonna deliver some pizza to the hungry baby!

Hello? Hello? Hungry people?
We've got pizza for the hungry. Here you go.
What?

Yeah, baby! We're gonna feed the hungry today!

We've got pizza for the hungry! Here's some pizza.
I didn't order it, but thanks.

Here you go. Eat up!
Thank you? Thanks?
You're welcome

Alright, this is our third delivery of the night, we're feeding the hungry.

Pizza for the hungry.
But, I'm not "the hungry."
But, there's pizza.

Here, come with me. Let me show you something.
I, and you, am not "the hungry."
You see, the hungry don't have any other food to eat. You'd be delivering pizza, and that would maybe be their only meal of the day.

You see, Colby I have this whole cupboard of food. I have my bread, I have my raisins And my favorite, Colby, is some pork flavored Ramen.

See, the hungry are out on the street somewhere needing your help
They need your help. I don't need your help.
It's nice to have you around, Colby to deliver delicious pizza like this but they need you.

Alright guys, if we go online we can find ways we can really help the hungry not by delivering pizza to random college kids.

You got a credit card Matt?
See if we go to this website, we just enter in your credit card information...
Oh, is that how you spell your last name?
Two T's
Alright, we just donated $1000 to help the real hungry.
Not hungry like you Colby, Certainly not hungry like you, Matty Matty.
This will pay for food for people who really need it, guys.

It's not all about money either. I mean, if you prefer, you could donate canned food to your local pantry.
Or if you have time to give, you could volunteer to serve meals at a local soup kitchen

The important thing is to do something.
There are too many hungry people in our world to just pretend it's not a problem.

I'm Colby the Pizza Guy, and Monday night's special is A large Mushroom Deluxe for $9.99 Check it out.

Special thanks to my friends Colby, Beth, Casey and Matt for helping me out with this one.