There's always somebody downstairs

[sovay]

Construction on our street no longer even rates a jackhammer, it seems: the ponderously concrete-cracking blows reverberating directly across the road are the product of effectively punching the sidewalk with a backhoe. I have those mornings, too, but I don't make my neighbors listen to them. Facebook permanently deactivated my account in the night, deleting fourteen years' worth of memories, photos, conversations, connections, my profile picture on a mountainside in Vancouver. It is still nice to read political news that does not feel like the rear view of an event horizon. My plan for the rest of the day is heavily tilted toward returning from this afternoon's doctor's appointment and trying to sleep.

Comments

[ladymondegreen]

Sleep sounds like an excellent plan. May it be undisturbed by construction.

Sorry to hear about your Facebook account. I wonder if that got rid of the pictures of us together at that event in Brooklyn. :(

[sovay]

Sleep sounds like an excellent plan. May it be undisturbed by construction.

Thank you! I do not think I have ever lived on a street that had this much earth-moving machinery on it on the regular. I like Ewan MacColl's "The Fitter's Song" (1958) as much as the next person, but come on.

Sorry to hear about your Facebook account. I wonder if that got rid of the pictures of us together at that event in Brooklyn.

I hope not. Photos with other people tagged in them I am informed remain. Anything I posted myself I am informed has been nuked.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, that all sounds rotten. I'm sorry. *hugs*

[sovay]

Oh, that all sounds rotten. I'm sorry.

I don't understand the mysterious attraction of our street for construction! And I do feel weird about the nuking of an entire archive of my life without my say-so. But I don't have an ear infection!

*hugs*

[jesse_the_k]

May you sleep with just the right dreams.

[sovay]

May you sleep with just the right dreams.

Thank you!

[sholio]

All of that is completely unnecessary and upsetting! I hope you're able to sleep properly. <3

I wonder if it's possible to get the Facebook account undeleted? I don't think most sites like that immediately purge data, so perhaps something can still be done. :((

[sovay]

All of that is completely unnecessary and upsetting! I hope you're able to sleep properly.

Thank you! I did achieve unconsciousness for somewhere between two and three hours and I dreamed.

I wonder if it's possible to get the Facebook account undeleted? I don't think most sites like that immediately purge data, so perhaps something can still be done.

The e-mail said "permanently," but it's FB, so it's true, who even knows what goes on inside their black box.

[davidgillon]

Ugh on the noise and the FB shenanigans.

Everything crossed for sound sleep post doctors.

[sovay]

Ugh on the noise and the FB shenanigans.

*hugs*

Everything crossed for sound sleep post doctors.

I did sleep! I even dreamed.

[foxmoth]

I'm so sorry you're dealing with all of this. Best wishes with FB undeletion - I remember Seth Fishman was wrassling this for a client a year or two ago.

[sovay]

I'm so sorry you're dealing with all of this. Best wishes with FB undeletion - I remember Seth Fishman was wrassling this for a client a year or two ago.

Thank you. I didn't realize undeletion was possible! I assumed this was the end of the line for my existence as far as Meta was concerned.

[nineweaving]

This is--wantonly destructive. Damn all jacks-in-office and their backhoes.

*hugs*

Nine

[sovay]

This is--wantonly destructive. Damn all jacks-in-office and their backhoes.

It just seemed unnecessarily on the nose to have it right across the street, literally pounding the pavement!

[gwynnega]

I am so sorry about your Facebook account.

[sovay]

I am so sorry about your Facebook account.

Thank you. It's just so much time and so many connections of my life.

[radiantfracture]

Well, that all seems bewilderingly awful.

[sovay]

Well, that all seems bewilderingly awful.

*hugs*

[genarti]

This is all awful. (Except the political news, which is bringing recurring joy to me too.) Sending you love and a Cone of Silence.

I'm particularly sorry about your FB account, which seems really unwarrantedly awful. I do think it's possible that undeletion is a possibility -- I don't know if it's a certainty, but I don't trust FB to tell the truth or to get rid of any data, tbh. Might be worth pursuing, anyway.

[sovay]

This is all awful. (Except the political news, which is bringing recurring joy to me too.) Sending you love and a Cone of Silence.

Thank you!

*hugs*

I'm particularly sorry about your FB account, which seems really unwarrantedly awful. I do think it's possible that undeletion is a possibility -- I don't know if it's a certainty, but I don't trust FB to tell the truth or to get rid of any data, tbh. Might be worth pursuing, anyway.

I am also a little skeptical about true deletion since you can keep an entire person's life on a thumb drive these days. I will look into it. I still feel as though pieces of my life keep being taken away from me and I did not sign off on them.

[ashlyme]

This is cobblers, and I'm sorry. Your comments were one of the things I really liked about Facebook. *Many hugs*

* It is still nice to read political news that does not feel like the rear view of an event horizon.*

I'm very, very pleased about this.

[sovay]

This is cobblers, and I'm sorry. Your comments were one of the things I really liked about Facebook.

*hugs*

I liked your posts! Your standing stone vistas and your book hauls and some sense of your days, which was the primary utility of FB to me. The data-scraping became particularly cruel when all I wanted from the platform was, in fact, keeping in touch with my friends.

I'm very, very pleased about this.

Will accept more similar news at any time!

[choco_frosh]

:(

[sovay]

:(

*hugs*

[oracne]

Fingers crossed for un-deletion and fistbump of solidarity for the Horrid Noise. Though ours is better today than Wednesday.

[sovay]

Fingers crossed for un-deletion and fistbump of solidarity for the Horrid Noise. Though ours is better today than Wednesday.

Thank you! I'm glad to hear about yours. May it knock off entirely.

[asakiyume]

That's terrible, to lose all that. I'm really sorry.

Do you think you'll try creating another account?

[sovay]

That's terrible, to lose all that. I'm really sorry.

*hugs*

Thank you. It was not my primary platform, but there was so much of my life on it, and despite the optimization for negativity, so much professional community and kindness.

Do you think you'll try creating another account?

I don't know. I had built up such a net of connections over the decades. I don't even know how I would find some of those people again. I don't even know who notices that I went missing.