I had been so busy with work that I hadn't checked in on my Facebook account or my email for many months. When I went into Facebook this evening I discovered that I had been "Disabled"!! Huh??
Turns out that someone tried to set the group's owner's email address up to someone else's email address. Was it a coincidence that the name was the same as mine@gmail.com? When I didn't reply they actually disabled my account. Now, in order to reactivate it I need to send them a scan of my driver's license to prove I am a real person!!
Just so happens I am using a pseudonym to protect my identity. I can't set up a Facebook group using a pseudonym. The worst thing is that the group is still listed in Facebook, even though they deleted all the followers and now there is no admin!! All the content is gone, since there are no more people attached to it. It is just floating there looking silly. At least the Info page is still intact and the link to this blog is still visible!!
In the absence of a reply to my email, I set my pseudonym self up as a Page rather than a person, and I created a business Page for the group. You will still be able to "Like" the pages and post links to your photo albums from your travels. However, the world will not be able to see who "Likes" the page. This might be a good thing!! I may look into setting up a true Group later, but I think for our purposes this will work well. We don't schedule events so that would have been the main benefit of a group rather than a page. I am unable to reconstruct the content that had been on the old Group, but I uploaded the Road Rules as photos and posted the album from my Inaugural trip.
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