Give Me Back My Sunsets!
For the past two days, Meta has accused me of being something that I won't even type here because I don't want search engines getting any ideas. But it was bad. Ruin your life, go to prison, bad. Just about the worst thing you can be accused of being.
It started two nights ago. I was actually on my computer, writing, when I happened to notice I had been logged out of Threads. Weird, I thought. Maybe some cookie issue. But when I went to log back in I got a new interstitial noting that my account had been suspended. At first, I thought it might be some sort of lockdown procedure due to suspicious activity. Because I have a verified account (stemming from Instagram), there have been a few hijacking attempts over the years. That plus the fact that I live in London now perhaps triggered some automatic protection, I thought. I tried to log-in again via Instagram (since Threads accounts are still tied to IG accounts) thinking there might be some sort of recovery mechanism. But no. The same "suspended" notice and this time, reading it further, it said I had 180 days to appeal or Meta would permanently disable my account.
Now I assumed it must have been someone flagging my Threads account for spam or something. After all, a few hours prior I sent far more messages than I normally do due to the fact that there was an Apple event (to announce new iPads). Perhaps someone wasn't happy with my output volume or jokes about launching an iPad on a BART train. Obviously, I appealed using Meta's little button at the bottom of the notice. Annoying, but it was about to be bedtime in London, so off I went to sleep assuming they'd restore me by the morning.
