Here is a not so fun item. I thought maybe I might post a note about it here. Wednesday November 2, in what appears to be a complicated and strange story in the details, my personal Facebook account was hacked, and as a result of whatever exactly happened then, was apparently quickly disabled by Facebook (maybe the only semi-good part). Several things preceding that should have been clues to the Facebook server-side systems, but apparently not, a subject in itself.
Not only that, but after all this, I find, after loads of searching and taking numerous dead ends of “Facebook solutions” that were useless, there seems to be no way to correct this. (For a prime example, I found myself logged out of Facebook after this incident, when I try to log back in, I just get a message saying my account has been disabled, and all the Facebook “solutions” all lead to “step 1- log in to Facebook”. Plus, I find no way to contact any live human help at Facebook.
I had already become close to fed up with Facebook for a growing list of reasons, so I think I might very well just be walking away and washing my hands of it, considering that at least the account is permanently locked away in some quarantine. There are probably personal “Facebook Friends” connections wondering what happened, perhaps thinking I “unfriended” them for some reason, and since it appears that all sign has disappeared, maybe even thinking I blocked them, when I had nothing to do with it.
I just want to post this and say, with this, if you are on Facebook still, with the increasing dystopian mess it is these days, you might consider bailing out.
Posted by John Eagan 
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