Early yesterday morning, my Facebook account was hacked and within an hour, Facebook had disabled the account.
The hacker also managed to take down my Instagram account so the combined loss of both accounts is about 75,000 followers. That’s if Facebook can’t restore the accounts to me in the next 30 days.
It’s possible they restore it, but I’m quickly coming to the painful terms that, that may just not be the case.
Do I expend immense energy trying to complain and force them to restore the accounts, or should I fire off an email every day for the 30 days that the accounts still live and resign myself to the fact that I’ll have to rebuild?
I’ll do minimal work trying to restore the accounts. There is a VERY low likelihood that they will be brought back.
So the next step is to find a way to usefully pivot and make some adjustments I have wanted to make and create fresh accounts and build audiences that are even more excited.
Oh, also, more frequent changing of passwords, stronger passwords, two-factor authentication, and multiple emails and phone number backups.
I guess when you run on a shoestring, every now and then the shoestring snaps.
I’m not happy about this at all, but maybe I can work to flip it into a positive that I can look back on at the end of this year and be OK with how it’s gone.