I admit it - I’m a Facebookaholic! I tend to check my Facebook (hereafter referred to FB!) account more times than is healthy and I feel slightly dissppointed when I have no notifications or there are no invites waiting to invite me to add the (supposedly) latest and greatest FB apps. I’ve got back in touch with people I haven’t spoken to for almost 17 years, something that Friends Reunited couldn’t do, but with FB I found them, added them and sent them a message within a couple of days of signing up. However, I’m starting to feel dissappointed with FB.

Last week I tried logging into FB as usual, and was greeted with a message saying that I couldn’t log in at this time due to system maintenance and that I should try again later. I should add that I’ve seen this message before, and within a minute or two I was allowed into FB, changing my status and buying people virtual drinks. However, this time was different. I tried five minutes later - nothing. Twenty minutes later - nada. I tried two hours after that when I got to work - still the same. And all evening I was blocked out. I was starting to get worried; had I been hacked or had someone tried to get my account deleted, or had my account just disappeared from their database. Even more worrying was that when someone tried to access my FB profile it didn’t exist!!! I was a virtual ghost!

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