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facebook does not use Flash technology, your issue is somwhere else, maybe html5/javascript and safari. you should contact safari's developers about your issue
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My guess is that this is probably a transient network issue, but if the problem still persists, it's probably not actually Flash.
"When in doubt, reboot" is still sage advice, and the first place I'd start. If you're on a WiFi connection and the problem persists, I'd check a hardwired ethernet connection as a second step.
If neither of those things resolves the issue and you want to rule out Flash Player definitively (there's no magic path whereby Flash Player breaks native HTML5 video playback as a side-effect of merely existing on the system), then uninstall it and see if the problem goes away.
Uninstall Flash Player - Mac:
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-mac-os.html
If that doesn't work, you could check to see if the problem is isolated to a particular browser's native video implementation by trying the same thing in other browsers.
If you're still getting problematic video playback, it's most likely either traffic congestion on the route between you and the node on Facebook's Content Delivery Network that's sending you the video, or it's a technical problem in Facebook's video delivery stack.
You could probably figure that out in a fairly reasonable way by testing video playback across a number of disparate services that use HTML5 video as their conduit for video delivery (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch).