bringbackliztofacebook-blog

[bringbackliztofacebook-blog]

To Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder

Dear Mark

Happy holidays to you and your family.

I hope you are doing great, and congratulations on the new baby! Yay!

On a sad note, Mr. Z, I’m posting this because I wanna let you know that my account on your amazing site, FACEBOOK, was taken down because it was tagged/flagged as an account of a “spammer/abuser”. This thing saddened me as I had that account for 8 years and 5 months. I had all my memories from my university years there. I used it as an online diary of my life, my triumphs, my frustrations, my joys, my failures, and almost of my craziness were chronicled there. It had been a communication tool for me too. I stayed connected with cousins working/living abroad through that account. It was a part of my daily routine to check what they were doing with their little bubble because let’s face it, your site was and still is the best there is. It brought us close despite the distance, so we didn’t miss each other much. I also used it to talk to my baby brother who’s working in Bahrain as the international texting and calling rates are astronomically expensive for both of us. My best friend Elaine who works in a different province than me used to ask me questions about her lessons through my old account. Now, she’s gonna get married and she was frantic because I was AWOL. In all honesty, I signed up on your site because I wanted to try out the “new and exciting social media” of 2009; however, as your site grew, it became more than just a social media site for me. I connected to several people using your site, like my former students(I’m an English as Second Language Instructor to Koreans and Japanese by the way) for instance. I kept tabs on their whereabouts and their successes on Facebook. It had been part of my daily life. I also posted photos of my nieces and nephews when they were just little like Christmases/New Years/Birthdays celebration photos etc. most of which were only posted on Facebook thinking I’d forever have this account, so no need for back-ups, and when I was logged out, I felt like my connection and memories got shattered, literally. My friends and colleagues from work will be able to tell you how devastated I was when it happened. And oh, I’m using a nickname there so I have no IDs to prove that I own the account. I don’t wanna commit fraud in this process, hence I won’t be making “fake IDs” just to prove my identity to get this account back.

And just last October 17, 2017, I launched a page called Halfblood Hill there (www.facebook.com/demigodsareamazing). It made me know cool people from all over the world. I worked with people like Margot, Claire, Ryan, Nicole, Brianna, and Cassidy. A team of people in love with the world created by Rick Riordan. A story world where difference is celebrated, where your uniqueness makes you special, where friendship -old and new- triumphs over even the worst and most powerful forces known to mankind. The vision that I had when I created the page was for people to get connected by being in a community of unique individuals sharing their gift to the world. Now, I have no access to that page. I have tried to make other accounts because I still wanna be connected to the page likers, but I still got taken down no matter what. What I’m saying is that I miss interacting with them there. There were these two girls from Australia, Mikayla and Olivia, whom I personally or “cybernatically” talked to through the page every time they commented on the posts of the page. And, I may have other pages, but I have never really known the “admin” role on the page, so I thought I could be the sole “admin” and the page would still be okay. Sadly, the page is now run by “editors” only. They wanna improve the page to grow our audience and widen our family, but they can’t. I also created Dam It’s A Demi Kinda Thing (www.facebook.com/demigodsaredamsassy) using my “new” account, but sadly this “new” account got blocked by your system, too.

Around the same time I created Halfblood Hill, I joined a Facebook group where we ROLE-PLAY(RP) as people living in a camp. Inside this camp, I was HERMES(yes the god Hermes, we don’t care about gender orientation there). During my first two weeks in this said group, I was a camper. That was then that I met some great people, then I got promoted to “god” status. I got to talk to other “gods and goddesses” like Aaron, Didi, Sela, Norwin, Hayley, Joey, Caroline and then Bella got promoted, so we talked all the time. Then I got to have amazing conversations with campers like Unnat, Eleazar, Alex, Derek, Mustafa, Star, Hannah, Emy, Mollie, Sarah, Pearl, and a whole lot more. All these people had been amazing to me, and I miss them terribly.

I also have been helping admin the pages Emblem3 Philippines, Team Inspire Philippines, and Team Inspire Iloilo, Philippines. E3 PH is a street team for the band Emblem3. We do fun stuffs there. The Team Inspire pages are dedicated to promote positive deeds and acts of the young minds of today's generation. We encourage people to be better versions of themselves.

I know that your mission statement was to connect people. I was only connecting with people. I had only wanted to reach out more. I hope you see this one and let me back into the world where I had so many memories and friends. If sharing my pages to my one thousand plus friends on Facebook, offended them. I’m deeply sorry.

If sharing my support for the LGBT community, offended anyone. I’m sorry I offended them, but I won’t withdraw my support or change my views for this community.

If I came out as an abusive HERMES, I was role-playing. It was part of a make-believe world scenario. I’m truly sorry because at the end of the day, Hermes was just a role. In real life, I don’t promote bullying, I grew up being name-called because I was and still am fat. So, I know how being bullied feels like. I won’t intentionally inflict the same pain on anyone. I really do hope you see this one and make magic happen to let me back to my account.

Best regards.

Happy Holidays!

Yours, Liz Reyes Stilinski

(PS: Liz is my nickname, Reyes is mom’s maiden name, and Stilinski is Dylan O'Brien’s character’s family name on Teen Wolf.)

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