*sigh*  This is Day Three of

Life (life... life...)  Without (without... without...)  Facebook! (facebook... facebook)

And it stinks, man!  Here's the skibby:

On Monday evening, my darling little Karibear, my mini-me, my social butterfly, asked me if she could have a Facebook account.  Hesitatingly, I agreed, and began the process of opening up an account for her.  But, hmmm... what's this?  They need a functional e-mail address to associate with her account.  Well, she happens to have an e-mail addy, but she's, like, NEVER used it!  She is only ten, you know.  That means we have long-forgotten her password to her e-mail. 

Enter Daddy.  He is the e-mail accounts admin. for the whole family, right?  And he happens to be a walking encyclopedia of password memorization, too.  After we gave up, he strolls in and inputs it, no problem.  So, our issue is solved, and we head back to FB for Kari.  Her account gets set up, and they flash on the screen the message stating that a "confirmation e-mail has been sent" to the e-mail address given.  She can't do much of anything on FB until she clicks the confirmation link in that e-mail.

So, we login to Kari's e-mail and check.  No confirmation e-mail.  We wait a few minutes and check again.  Still, no confirmation e-mail.  So, we head back to FB and request another one be sent and toggle over to her e-mail.  STILL, no confirmation e-mail. 

I deduced that she has so many parental controls on her e-mail account that she is unable to receive anything from a party not approved by the e-mail accounts admin. (aka: Daddy).  So, we log hubby in to his multiple accounts to see if there is an e-mail to him requesting permission to allow FB to send e-mails to Kari.  No such doing.

At this point, I get impatient at how difficult this has become, toggle over to Kari's newly created FB account, click on her Settings, and add another e-mail account to her FB.  The one I added was one I KNEW worked, because it's the one I use, right?

Guess what happened.  Go ahead.  Guess.

Stinkin' Facebook wiped out MY account so that my e-mail address could be associated with HER account!  In fact, if you "search" my name now, NOTHING shows up!  It returns ZERO results!  All those hours spent on downloading pictures and videos; all those links to people I've been thrilled to be back in touch with; all those e-mails sent through FB... GONE! 

"Just report the problem."  Done, and done, and done again!  Still NO resolution!  I'm sick to my ears with this! 

And you canNOT imagine how many people have called and asked me, "What's wrong?  Where'd you go?"  Yesterday, my high school best friend called me from another state and told me that one of the gals I never really spoke to in high school contacted her and asked, "What happened to  Christi?  I tried to send her a message, but she's gone."  My MIL called me; my friend Pam asked what happened; my "captain" in Puzzle Pirates asked; and my friend Joy was almost in tears b/c she thought she'd offended me or something!

Grrrrrr!

If I didn't love being on Facebook so much, I wouldn't worry about it.  But it turns out, it's way better than MySpace at getting in touch and KEEPING in touch with people (so long as your account doesn't get WIPED, that is!).  Plus, it's just plain fun keeping up with your friends, too.  Faster than calling eveyone.

Anyway, if a Facebook Administrator ever happens upon this page, please, PLEASE fix this problem!

Hope everyone has a splendid day.  I'm off soon to my ObGyn for one of my last visits this pregnancy.  I have 3 weeks and 4 days until I'm due!

Blessings!  ♥♥Christi