More bad news today, besides the rain of biblical proportions, the technological meltdown that lasted the whole morning, the determined efforts of someone downstairs to hammer down our walls, and the postbags of catalogues building up in overwhelming piles at the bottom of the stairs, uncollected by the ever-striking postal service… Our Facebook presence is no more. As of last night it would appear. Gone.
Can someone please explain to me what we’ve done wrong? What have we done to merit having our Facebook profile disabled? Have we been posting pornographic, intimidating or defamatory content on our page without realising? Have we repeatedly offended, or committed ‘one particularly egregious violation’?
Long sigh. I feel very chastened, and slightly nervous: just like when I was five, and got punished for writing on the blackboard (when in fact I was rubbing Stephen Thornton’s writing off because – I told him, full of puppy love - Sister Frances would make him stand in the corner if he was caught being naughty).
KA, Contrite, if a little Confused…
I doubt that you’ve done anything dreadful with regard to Facebook. They tend to have a policy against institutional profiles on the platform. You can be an individual representing an institution, but you can’t just be “Hesperus Press” on Facebook. There *must* be a human rather than a corporation establishing the profile. Ideally, they’d like Hesperus Press to establish a network there, even if there are only three of you.
I am currently reading your edition of Wilkie Collins’ The Frozen Deep. I have never before encountered this work so I do appreciate you bringing it forward.
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