Suspended - Again

Social media is a wonderful tool for keeping in touch, for sharing thoughts, for creating content.

When it works.

In the middle of the day today, suddenly I was denied access to my Instagram and by default, Threads accounts. Suspended I’m told.

Because I broke “community standards”. Of course they don’t tell you “which” standards you’ve broken and you wrack your brain trying to think what you might have said or shared that was declaring you “null and void”.

Anyone who has visited either my Instagram or Threads pages will know there’s not much to me. I’m polite, I’m respectful. I share positive thoughts and ideas. I crack a joke now and then — or to me they’re jokes, others might find them silly nonsense. But I doubt they’re offensive. I make it a point to try to never offend anyone else.

I don’t have a lot of followers, certainly in comparison to a lot of other accounts. I’m not a presence on social media because I want followers. I chose to be part of a collective to engage with other people, to share ideas and I have been lucky enough to have met some really wonderful people with whom I share laughter and life experience.

To have this happen to me twice within a short period of time indicates to me that someone might be reporting me. Maybe they dislike my content or maybe there’s a glitch in the system. Or maybe there’s a larger message here for me to take away.

I know this. I have survived much worse in this life than being told I am not welcome. There are bigger rooms and there is more to life than being “accepted or rejected”.

The Meta “gods” might decide to give me another chance. Or they might not. I know this. I’ll survive just fine. I always do.