WHAT A WEEK!

First, there was Hurricane Isaias—could y’all pronounce that the first or fifteenth time you tried? Fortunately, it didn’t impact my part of NC or my happy place of Kiawah Island, SC. Then Sunday morning, I woke up to my bed shaking. No, it wasn’t hubby wanting something, but a 5.1 earthquake about 110 miles away. There, they had broken dishes and cracks in chimneys, but no damage here. 

People like my son and his wife, who live in California, don’t even notice earthquakes unless they hit over 6. If you’ve never felt one, it’s like an off-balance washing machine. Well, the small ones. Since they are a rare occurrence here, it had a lot of people turning to social media, asking if what they felt was an earthquake.

Speaking of social media, I was on Facebook Saturday liking my friend’s comments and pictures, posting my normal stuff, like a Guardians of the Galaxy GIF and screenshots of several fake Instagram accounts all using the same model’s pictures from a stock photo site, but when I logged back in less than thirty minutes later, I found a message that my Facebook account was suspended.

Um, WHAT?!

They said I could submit it for review--which I did--and this was the response that came up. 

That maybe they’ll get to it, but with COVID, maybe not.

Um, WHAT?!

No warning. No reason given. I swear I didn’t post any naughty pictures, bully anyone, or get political. I checked with my techie son to see if he has any friends at Facebook who could help, but he doesn’t have connections. He does work for LinkedIn, but I haven’t asked him to shut down Mark Zuckerberg’s LinkedIn account without warning or reason—yet. Ha, ha. So, if you happen to notice I’m quiet, or my posts are missing, or I’m not showing up as your friend, I did NOT unfriend you. I did not get taken in the rapture. (Though the way this week and year have been, that could be coming.) I did not die of COVID, either.

Luckily, I was able to get back into my account before sending this newsletter out. Fingers crossed it stays active! However, it reconfirms the importance of being able to contact you via my newsletter and being friends on Goodreads if you have an account there. So, for this newsletter giveaway, you’ll be entered if you friend me on Goodreads. To open this giveaway to everyone regardless of where they live, I’ll give away a $5 Amazon gift card for every fifty Goodreads friends I have by August 20, 2020. Click to be my friend now. 😊