Living with a big personality, when you have a quite personality, is difficult enough. Throw in a second personality, as a performer, who has to be larger than life, and it grows infinitely more difficult. Then, throwing in a third party (an actual third person), whose ultimate goal, it appears, is to destroy everything that the first two personalities have worked so hard to create...What's inifinity times infinity? Or infinity to the infinite power? That's what I've been dealing with over the last three days or so.
As you know, Shaunna Rai's page, has been removed from Facebook, and Dan's nearly was. He's still on Facebook police watch with his personal page. We've contacted Facebook in hopes that we can get it restored, but they appear to be ignoring our requests for some answers. So, we're no closer to a resolution than we were yesterday, when I posted.
There are a few things, though that have happened, on a positive note. Mostly to do with how to work the Facebook Like Page system. I've had the blog going for nearly 3 years. And, aside from writing stuff here, and posting the link on Facebook, I haven't really been using the page on Facebook to it's full potential.
Given that Shaunna Rai has been forced to become a Like Page, and Dan hasn't got time for learning all the ins and outs, he has me figure out what to do, then explain it to him, so that he can do it. And, I'm finding that there were things that I didn't know that I could do...or didn't know how to do, that actually can be done. You can move photos from one album to another, without having to delete them and re-upload them. You can share events that you're going to be attending, so that people will know where you're going to be, and what you're going to be doing. I knew that you could schedule posts, so that they would post when you choose for them to, instead of just whenever you're done writing them...so I showed Dan how to do that.
It's been a great learning experience for me, though, because now I have all these little tricks that I can pull out, to use my page a little better. And, I'm planning to use it better, for causes other than just my own. Yeah, I really would like to have a bigger audience than the 225-ish people who follow my blog right now. (Not that I don't love you all, I just feel that sometimes I have really important stuff that needs to be said, and heard by a lot more people.)
I've even managed to figure out for both Dragged to the Inside and Shaunna Rai, how to connect the "fan pages" to Twitter...because, I decided a while back, that it would be great to put Dragged to the Inside into the Twitterverse...and I think I did it twice, and then realized how much work it was to do it, and lost interest...which is kind of my MO. But, now, it's going to do it automatically, on it's own, when I post it to Facebook. So, maybe, I'll get lucky, and get some new fans that way! Who knows, maybe I'll even learn how to work in the Twitterverse.
I'd say that the process has been fun, but it really hasn't. It's been kind of a bitch.
I get the back end of venting, which is perfectly fine, because, I would be pissed off if it were my account that it happened to. As it is, it's not my account, and I am angrier than I have ever been in my life with whoever caused all the problems. What I'm having the hardest time with though, is the byproduct of anger, which is being directed in my general direction, because it has no where else to go. I have been working my ass off, to get everything back up and going. I have been begging people to post photos of Shaunna Rai from her early days. I have been working as much as I can, to set things right. I've written to Facebook myself, to no avail. I've spent countless hours trying to calm Dan down. And, I've spent so much time listening, so that I can understand just how badly this has messed things up in Shaunna Rai's world.
It would be easy to blame this all on Facebook. I mean, to be totally honest, they've pulled this kind of thing before. However...this is NOT Facebook's fault. Someone who was friends with BOTH Dan and Shaunna's friend pages reported them. Both of them. And, they weren't reported for being fake accounts, or anything like that. They were reported for IDENTITY THEFT. Correspondence from Facebook throws around terms like legal action, and illegal activity. Meaning, potential jail time... And, this is on top of all the other issues. Shaunna Rai does business with a lot of people on her page. The minute that her page was shut down by Facebook, she lost all of those business contacts, many of whom are not friends with Dan...so costumers, venue contacts, other queens...they're all gone. And, because I'm a picture person...(I believe that pictures often can tell the story better than words themselves. Yes, I get the irony of that, with my being a blogger.) I look at everything that was lost in terms of photographic history. I don't know how long Shaunna Rai has had a Facebook friend page, but I know that it was a long time. And, I know that she had pictures on her page that came from all over the place...other states, other times, and from people who are no longer with us. Because it all happened in the course of a few minutes, there was no way for Shaunna to download her timeline...which, in fact is something that is allowed, if you do decide to go the way of changing a friend page to a like page. But, whoever reported her, took that possibility away too. It's as though Shaunna Rai, and all her history was involved in a fully engulfed fire, and there was no time to save the photo albums or the notes from friends who have passed away. All of that has burned away, and now she has to rebuild. And, all the while that she is trying to rebuild, she has to be looking over her shoulder, to try to figure out which of her close friends set her world on fire, and destroyed it.
It was ridiculous, and selfish of whoever it was to do. I don't care what your reasoning behind it was. You are the farthest thing from a friend. There are no words to explain all the feelings that I am feeling toward you right now. I hope that you're proud of what you did. I hope that you can sleep with a clear conscience, knowing how many people are angry at you with Shaunna Rai and Dan and I. And, I hope that you understand just how many people want your head served on a silver platter right now, because every one of them is wondering "how long is it going to be until I get reported?"
Just remember, Karma's a Bitch!
As you know, Shaunna Rai's page, has been removed from Facebook, and Dan's nearly was. He's still on Facebook police watch with his personal page. We've contacted Facebook in hopes that we can get it restored, but they appear to be ignoring our requests for some answers. So, we're no closer to a resolution than we were yesterday, when I posted.
There are a few things, though that have happened, on a positive note. Mostly to do with how to work the Facebook Like Page system. I've had the blog going for nearly 3 years. And, aside from writing stuff here, and posting the link on Facebook, I haven't really been using the page on Facebook to it's full potential.
Given that Shaunna Rai has been forced to become a Like Page, and Dan hasn't got time for learning all the ins and outs, he has me figure out what to do, then explain it to him, so that he can do it. And, I'm finding that there were things that I didn't know that I could do...or didn't know how to do, that actually can be done. You can move photos from one album to another, without having to delete them and re-upload them. You can share events that you're going to be attending, so that people will know where you're going to be, and what you're going to be doing. I knew that you could schedule posts, so that they would post when you choose for them to, instead of just whenever you're done writing them...so I showed Dan how to do that.
It's been a great learning experience for me, though, because now I have all these little tricks that I can pull out, to use my page a little better. And, I'm planning to use it better, for causes other than just my own. Yeah, I really would like to have a bigger audience than the 225-ish people who follow my blog right now. (Not that I don't love you all, I just feel that sometimes I have really important stuff that needs to be said, and heard by a lot more people.)
I've even managed to figure out for both Dragged to the Inside and Shaunna Rai, how to connect the "fan pages" to Twitter...because, I decided a while back, that it would be great to put Dragged to the Inside into the Twitterverse...and I think I did it twice, and then realized how much work it was to do it, and lost interest...which is kind of my MO. But, now, it's going to do it automatically, on it's own, when I post it to Facebook. So, maybe, I'll get lucky, and get some new fans that way! Who knows, maybe I'll even learn how to work in the Twitterverse.
I'd say that the process has been fun, but it really hasn't. It's been kind of a bitch.
I get the back end of venting, which is perfectly fine, because, I would be pissed off if it were my account that it happened to. As it is, it's not my account, and I am angrier than I have ever been in my life with whoever caused all the problems. What I'm having the hardest time with though, is the byproduct of anger, which is being directed in my general direction, because it has no where else to go. I have been working my ass off, to get everything back up and going. I have been begging people to post photos of Shaunna Rai from her early days. I have been working as much as I can, to set things right. I've written to Facebook myself, to no avail. I've spent countless hours trying to calm Dan down. And, I've spent so much time listening, so that I can understand just how badly this has messed things up in Shaunna Rai's world.
It would be easy to blame this all on Facebook. I mean, to be totally honest, they've pulled this kind of thing before. However...this is NOT Facebook's fault. Someone who was friends with BOTH Dan and Shaunna's friend pages reported them. Both of them. And, they weren't reported for being fake accounts, or anything like that. They were reported for IDENTITY THEFT. Correspondence from Facebook throws around terms like legal action, and illegal activity. Meaning, potential jail time... And, this is on top of all the other issues. Shaunna Rai does business with a lot of people on her page. The minute that her page was shut down by Facebook, she lost all of those business contacts, many of whom are not friends with Dan...so costumers, venue contacts, other queens...they're all gone. And, because I'm a picture person...(I believe that pictures often can tell the story better than words themselves. Yes, I get the irony of that, with my being a blogger.) I look at everything that was lost in terms of photographic history. I don't know how long Shaunna Rai has had a Facebook friend page, but I know that it was a long time. And, I know that she had pictures on her page that came from all over the place...other states, other times, and from people who are no longer with us. Because it all happened in the course of a few minutes, there was no way for Shaunna to download her timeline...which, in fact is something that is allowed, if you do decide to go the way of changing a friend page to a like page. But, whoever reported her, took that possibility away too. It's as though Shaunna Rai, and all her history was involved in a fully engulfed fire, and there was no time to save the photo albums or the notes from friends who have passed away. All of that has burned away, and now she has to rebuild. And, all the while that she is trying to rebuild, she has to be looking over her shoulder, to try to figure out which of her close friends set her world on fire, and destroyed it.
It was ridiculous, and selfish of whoever it was to do. I don't care what your reasoning behind it was. You are the farthest thing from a friend. There are no words to explain all the feelings that I am feeling toward you right now. I hope that you're proud of what you did. I hope that you can sleep with a clear conscience, knowing how many people are angry at you with Shaunna Rai and Dan and I. And, I hope that you understand just how many people want your head served on a silver platter right now, because every one of them is wondering "how long is it going to be until I get reported?"
Just remember, Karma's a Bitch!
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