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What Do You Do When You Lose a Useful Marketing Outlet?
And just like that — *poof* — a useful marketing outlet is silenced.
I know I’m not the only one to have had this experience.
This morning, as I started up my computer, I saw an odd request from Facebook. I knew it was legit, so I followed it.
And then, just like that — I’m locked out of my account.
Excuse me? I have never posted anything I imagine is all that controversial, nor in violation of their policies.
How do I appeal? Well, I can do nothing from my account directly either via my PC or my phone. A quick Google search and I found an email account I could send to.
The immediate concern is that I use Messenger a LOT. And not just to communicate with friends all over the country — nope, I use it a great deal for one of my freelance jobs. Like, multiple, frequent, ongoing daily chats.
I imagine that once they perform a review and a human rather than a bot looks it all over, I’ll get my account restored. But since I have been striving to spend less time on Facebook anyhow — I guess that’s been made all that much easier for the time being.
Besides messenger — which allows me to communicate with people all over the world — I…
