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My facebook account was hacked

May 29, 2009, 12:32 pm

No sooner had I arrived home from Santa Fe than I learned my Facebook account had been hacked, hijacked, rudely taken over by some creepy alien mind.  Hackers need to get a life - wait, I forgot, this is their life. 

But what was far worse was trying to close my Facebook account.  I tried to deactivate my account, I tried to delete my account - nothing seemed to work.  Those creepy alien minds are techno-savvy. 

I've wanted out of Facebook for a while - but not this way.  I barely have time for Redroom and for my blog at the excellent online magazine www.inthefray.org.  Facebook was a time suck.

My last email to Facebook was less-than-polite.  Finally they capitulated and let me go.         

 

 

Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi says:

horrible!

but what was the hacker using your facebook account to...do?? just put up strange status updates? tsk tsk. must admit i'm a facebook junkie but if that had happened to me i would have been just as keen to get out.

(unrelated - i love 'something wicked this way comes' too - have you read 'the halloween tree'?)