BANISHMENT Repealed!

Hello Friends!

With a huge sigh of relief I can tell you that today my Banishment is repealed and I can now use Facebook once more.

I am speechless, however, to read in the screen capture that they admit to their technology making the mistake!!!  Wonders will never cease!

I am not sure whether it was the help of a very kind relative of a friend of mine in Texas who works for META or if it was just pure luck that it happened today but I'm back. I will not pretend that I really thought my time on Facebook was done. It is worrying though that this has made me aware that so many organisations these days rely on their social media platforms to disseminate information.

Top of this list is the local doctor’s surgery who now only uses Facebook to reach out to patients registered at the surgery for community events such as the annual flu inoculations. No doubt many of you will recall over a year ago when the local surgery closed and amalgamated with the one in an adjacent village. That surgery would contact the patients by telephone to notify them that the flu inoculations were now being administered and would they like to book their appointment. Every eligible patient was contacted by this way. The new practise however puts an announcement up on Facebook to let everybody know that the flu injections clinic will be happening soon if you would like an appointment, it is your responsibility to make it, and would you please let all your friends and family who are not on Facebook know.

Personally, I think this method is appalling. You cannot rely on word of mouth to spread information about something as important as the annual flu inoculations. Stepping off soapbox before I need a tetanus injection because I'm getting splinters in my feet.

I have had my doctor's appointment, the one that has been repeatedly cancelled and rescheduled over many months this past Tuesday. In the next day or so I will be putting up an entry dedicated purely to that meeting which I will tease you by saying it was interesting to say the least.

In the meantime, I've got loads of Facebook notifications to sort through I honestly can't see how I have got so many when I haven't been on there for a fortnight still I'd better wade my way through in case there's something I need to see.

Until next time
Debbie xx