Facebook Shenanigans

Facebook notified me that, as a publisher of one or more pages with a potential for high volume, they must verify my identity. To do that, they want me to turn on location tracking on my phone and download an app to my phone in order to verify my identity, which sounds pretty intrusive, but whatever. There's a kink in this plan: I do not have a smartphone.

They think I am a danger of some sorts, I guess. The only site I "published" that has a potential for high volume was Neatorama's Facebook page. Jill Harness is actually managing that, and I haven't posted there in a really long time, so I asked Alex to remove me from the account so my predicament doesn't screw anything up, and that was done immediately.

Now the only Facebook page I manage besides my personal profile is the Miss Cellania page, and it will not load for me. I don't know if it will load for anyone else.

So do I try to search for a way to communicate with Facebook? They rely mostly on algorithms to run the business, and they don't work too well. Getting a real person to communicate with is damn near impossible. And if it happened, it would be someone half my age who thinks I should invest big bucks in a smartphone I don't need so Facebook can see that I stay in the same location all day every day. That seems like a lot of hassle for a "fan page" that isn't hardly used, by me or anyone else. I would be fine with letting it go. I don't post much at all on my personal page, but if they nuke that, then I won't be able to access my private groups, some of which are important to me.

I'll give it a few days and then retire Facebook from the "where to find Miss C" widget to the right.