Music hath charms...

[meridym]

...to stop me from wanting to murder someone at Facebook. ; ) My account was hacked late last Wednesday night night here in California, morning in London where the person who stole my identity was hard at work pretending to be me and asking my Facebook friends to send "me" money, as "I" was "stranded in London." When I awoke on Thursday morning and found out what was going on, I reported it to Facebook and worked hard to regain control over my account. And what did the brainiacs at Facebook do? Why, they disabled my account, of course, and then sent me an e-mail ("Facebook Security Alert"!) telling me my account had been compromised (duh) and including a link to take me to a page where I could verify (or not) any emails associated with my account. Since my account was disabled, I couldn't even get into it (it apparently no longer exists) to verify anything. They also asked me to prove I'm really who I say I am by asking me the answer to my "security question," which is "What was the name of your first stuffed animal?" This is a reasonable request, but I can't for the life of me remember even giving them an answer to this back when I started my account, so I provided them with three of the most likely names. I haven't heard one word back from them since Thursday. This whole experience has been maddening (and stressful, as one of my Facebook friends was taken in by the hacker's scam and wired her a great deal of money). Completely hideous. And Facebook's "support" has made it even worse.

So I'm venting here and listening to Yo-Yo Ma play Dvorak. Rog and I saw him play the cello concerto in B minor in concert a few years ago, and it's just magic. Much better than fretting over stupid Facebook. But I thought my Facebook friends who are also on LJ might wonder where I've disappeared to. ; )