I Was Ghosted By FaceBook

Facebook ghosted me but I’ve felt it coming for awhile. A couple of years ago, my Silver Piston FB pages was hacked and it also affected my photo Instagram. It took several weeks and some help from one of my follower’s wife who worked there and simply submitted a ticket for me.

After that though, I felt it was only a matter of time before it’s happened again. It really took all my steam out of posting on the platform and utilizing it to promote Silver Piston. At the time, 10 years ago, this was what makers weee doing to sell our wares. That and primarily using instagram to market and sell my jewelry really using what I’d picked up from a career in marketing.

I spent money on a daily basis promoting the FB page and my website to buy my goods. When I first started selling jewelry early 2013, I was on Etsy for a little while. I built a site on SquareSpace to sell because I didn’t want to be on a platform that could decide to change its rules for using it or go as far as to lock you out of your account. Doing it this way allowed me to not worry about what I wanted to say or present.

I used Facebook to post the happenings and the jewelry stuff. It was a great way to share what I was doing and Silver Piston is its own unique thing that people understood. Promoting on Facebook was literally targeting my followers and their friends. My jewelry is a really relatable thing that I appreciated friends would get too.

So to wind this long post up, I’m going to be posting here in the Notes From The Outpost. It ties in with the 10 year anniversary of Silver Piston and the start of another chapter of creating. While I’m still doing my jewelry, I’m working as a portrait and editorial photographer.