10/26/2026
Facebook’s new terms of service (TOS)and the future of Slither Inn Reptile Room in this space:
If you have not read about this already Facebook (as a subset of Meta) is very quietly implementing new terms of service on Oct 30, 2026 and for anyone with a business page (a non-personal page, including small businesses, creators and non-profits), this means some rather unpleasant changes that affect your page including and not limited to how Meta states they are going to scrape both the data (images/text) on your FB page as well as scraping the same from any links you include in posts or you page data (e.g. websites).
There is no opt-out option for businesses.
I've been thinking about this a lot. Slither Inn Reptile Room was started as a way to be able to provide husbandry help for reptiles, something I saw as a need for reptile owners in the Interior of Alaska. It turned into also providing reptile boarding and into hosting ScaleFEST: Fairbanks Reptile & Exotics Expo. My work is primarily service based and I don’t create original art or content that is unfairly being ingested by the Ai of Meta. I also fully understand that websites get scraped for data by Ai bots on the regular, but these Meta TOS and the overreach of Ai are just a bit over the top and intrusive for me.
So, this account will be going much more silent. One post a week at most, no external links, etc.
You can now find us over on BlueSky: .bsky.social – it’s a brand new account on Bluesky but I hope to be more active over there moving forward.
If you want to learn more about these changes Meta is implementing both here on FB as well as their other platforms (Instagram, X), I would recommend you Google “facebook terms of service oct 30, 2026)” to find out more.
FYI: Apparently the new TOS were pushed to be implemented November 20, 2026 due to the outrage and protest by the people who would be affected.
