Identity

My Facebook page got hacked again yesterday. Someone actually impersonated me by duplicating my profile. I have been off FB for two weeks and began to receive messages from friends. Once again, I get this huge angst about social media.

I feel violated.

Immediate I ask, “Why me? Who the heck wants my accounts? I am really not that interesting!”

A friend who works in tech has often looked at my matrix from my accounts and mentions that I get a lot of traffic. I don’t know anything about that. I tell him that I think I am deactivating my Instagram and Facebook accounts. He begs me not to. He insists that in the midst of all of the hacking, people are being inspired. He points out that no one impersonates him because he isn’t on there much and doesn’t write material that inspires.

It’s a horrible feeling when someone steals your identity. It doesn’t matter if it’s with bank accounts or on social media. I have a really hard time with it all because it happens every 5 to 7 months. Recently I was watching a video by a metaphysical woman I follow on YouTube and she shared that the more information she gets out there, the faster the accounts get stolen and hacked. She’s made it a point to grow her own website to the point that the followers will just go directly to her site. She believes that she’s actually helping shift the collective and this is the reason she’s targeted.

I don’t want to deal with this headache every few months. I like her idea of growing my professional website. I don’t have the hundreds of thousands from my FB page following my website like that at this time.

I am going to give this a lot of deep thought. I rather continue writing on my blogs. I don’t have to sensor anything. I can lift whoever wants to read my things. My publisher would disagree as she is counting on my followers for when my memoir comes out the first part of next year. I understand that having a huge following helps market a book. And, this isn’t the time to retrieve and become a hermit.

Perhaps my resistance is also part of the problem. I love the interaction with folks daily when I am on social media but a part of me lives harmonious without the extra chit chat. I don’t know! It’s hard to tell today after dealing with getting the hacking reported. Plus, it is a month of taking a social media break. I return to writing on my blogs. There is an incredible freedom to that.

My aim is to tell stories and inspire others. At what price? I know I get inspired reading other people’s posts as well. What is the best way to deal with this? Is stopping all social media a solution?

I was telling a friend that I have never (not once) gotten a request to do intuitive readings on social media. It’s been mostly word of mouth. So, professionally, it isn’t something that is making me money. But it makes me beautiful connections. And this may just be the reason I continue to stay on there. I believe each one of us is responsible for raising the frequency of this planet. Each person has their own way of doing it. Thank you for being here.

I love you,

Millie