So, I'm back on Facebook
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maugornThe Story
On Jan 19th, I got a notification that there was a new login (from a new location) on my FB account.
There were actually several. I was in the middle of doing something away from my computers and phone (shocking!) and so I missed it. When I caught it, the first thing I tried to do was change my password. Then I saw that there was a new "friend" that "I" had accepted; nobody I'd ever met, known, or known of. So I unfriended and blocked them. THEN I got a notification that my account was about to be shut down for violations of "Community Standards". I got to my wall for about 30 seconds, just enough to see what looked like some links to Pro-Middle-East terrorist type propaganda, and before I could remove it or even actually see it, the account was shut down. In hindsight, I may have done things in the wrong order, or maybe these assholes were good enough that there was nothing I could have done to thwart them.
In hindsight, I also needed non-reused passwords for all the things, but my sievelike memory for (not music) and my bad typing skills kept me procrastinating that.
Cautionary Tale there.
Well, I tried to go through the steps to recovery of the account and kept coming across confusing, apparently contradictory instructions, and eventually I found my way onto a page to have the decision to shut me down "reviewed". Somehow that meant that I "disagreed" with their decision, which would have to be "reviewed" and if they determined that my Wall violated "Community Standards", it would be shut down permanently.
So... last week, that's what happened.
But, I *was* able to set up a *new* account, which I did. If you've been a reader of mine on FB, please friend me again.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090671709273
The surface loss can be recovered. I'm sure I'll reconnect with everyone again, but the regrettable losses will be the tagged photographs and the writing that occasionally showed up in "memories". Again, a cautionary tale. A lot more of my posts will be crossposted from now on.
I had been doing that with LJ, but people were fleeing LJ for going all totalitarian, so I'd kind of given that up. So here is where that will happen now, because a world where my wisdom and my jokes are not saved is just intolerable.
On Jan 19th, I got a notification that there was a new login (from a new location) on my FB account.
There were actually several. I was in the middle of doing something away from my computers and phone (shocking!) and so I missed it. When I caught it, the first thing I tried to do was change my password. Then I saw that there was a new "friend" that "I" had accepted; nobody I'd ever met, known, or known of. So I unfriended and blocked them. THEN I got a notification that my account was about to be shut down for violations of "Community Standards". I got to my wall for about 30 seconds, just enough to see what looked like some links to Pro-Middle-East terrorist type propaganda, and before I could remove it or even actually see it, the account was shut down. In hindsight, I may have done things in the wrong order, or maybe these assholes were good enough that there was nothing I could have done to thwart them.
In hindsight, I also needed non-reused passwords for all the things, but my sievelike memory for (not music) and my bad typing skills kept me procrastinating that.
Cautionary Tale there.
Well, I tried to go through the steps to recovery of the account and kept coming across confusing, apparently contradictory instructions, and eventually I found my way onto a page to have the decision to shut me down "reviewed". Somehow that meant that I "disagreed" with their decision, which would have to be "reviewed" and if they determined that my Wall violated "Community Standards", it would be shut down permanently.
So... last week, that's what happened.
But, I *was* able to set up a *new* account, which I did. If you've been a reader of mine on FB, please friend me again.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090671709273
The surface loss can be recovered. I'm sure I'll reconnect with everyone again, but the regrettable losses will be the tagged photographs and the writing that occasionally showed up in "memories". Again, a cautionary tale. A lot more of my posts will be crossposted from now on.
I had been doing that with LJ, but people were fleeing LJ for going all totalitarian, so I'd kind of given that up. So here is where that will happen now, because a world where my wisdom and my jokes are not saved is just intolerable.
