It’s become commonplace these days for folks to deactivate their Facebook accounts—they’re tired of the rampant political divisiveness, the self-serving actions of the company’s owner, the randomness of how it treats its account subscribers. I’ve seen publishers and authors leave it behind, usually with a pinned note to visitors explaining that if they want to keep up-to-date with that person’s or that company’s activities, they should bookmark the blogs run by those individuals. I’d toyed with the idea myself but never acted on it.

And then last week, for some inexplicable reason, the decision was taken out of my hands when I found myself blocked from accessing the Facebook pages for both StarWarp Concepts and Pandora Zwieback.

I can login to Facebook, but then I’m immediately redirected to the “Your Pages” page—and that’s as far as I can go. Clicking on either link just brings me back to that page.

It doesn’t appear that my account was hacked—thankfully, there haven’t been any posts to the pages since the last ones I put up, and I can still sign in—but since this is Facebook we’re talking about, there’s no way to really find out because they make it impossible to contact anyone to resolve the problem. And, for some other inexplicable reason, clicking on the Support email icon at the Help Center just…brings me back to “Your Pages.”

I tried asking the question to the Help Community, where answers are provided by other subscribers, not anyone from Facebook itself (why be helpful to their customers, right?), but was blocked from posting it because doing so requires having a personal account; business pages are “gray accounts” that can’t access even the Help Community.

So unless this problem somehow resolves itself, I guess we’ve given up on Facebook—or rather Facebook has given up on us. Should access suddenly be restored one day, I’ll login long enough to pin a note directing readers to the SWC and Pan websites.

Bottom line, if you want to keep up-to-date with StarWarp Concepts’ or Pandora Zwieback’s activities, you should bookmark our blogs to follow along. I mean, 99% of my Facebook posts just point you to these blogs anyway. This way, it cuts out the middle man. 🙂

Thanks, as always, for your continued support.

Hmmm…maybe I should look into this Twitter thing all the kids talk about. How bad could that be…?