Just over a week ago my HarassedMom Facebook page was hacked. They kicked off all the admins on the page and as a result I am not able to access the page at all. A few days later my twitter account was hacked and I lost access to that as well. 

It is the first time in the 15 years I have been on social media that anything like this has happened to me. Initially I was upset but not too angry – I mean it was just social media accounts, right?

Wrong. These pages were so much more than that and I got very angry, very quickly. Not just normal anger, you know that all consuming anger that starts in your belly and then moves to your whole body. When you can actually feel the anger vibrate all over your body. When you literally feel like you may explode from the rage burning in you. 

That kinda anger. For a few days it was all consuming. 

I have spent 16 years building Harassedmom. I may not have the most followers or the biggest community but it was MINE. I grew it. I worked hard on it. I shared so much on our Facebook page and I met David on Twitter. And now it is all gone. Someone took it from for no apparent reason and I felt a very deep sense of loss.

I vented and cried and tried to get hold of someone, anyone at Meta. I logged cases with Twitter. I hoped everyone morning I would wake up and access would be back! 

But then I let it go. It happened. I lost something important to me and it sucks but it’s ok. It happens. I still have this space which is where the story is. 

Once I had accepted it, I was left with a burning question…WHAT NOW?

For a while now I have not been sure what I wanted to do with HarassedMom. I know the influencer life isn’t for me. I have done it and I wasn’t particularly good at it and if I am honest, I didn’t enjoy it. 

So do I rebuild? Do I pivot? Do I start something new?

The answer is, for now I do nothing. I am not going to restart the FB page. I have started a new Twitter account  but not as HarassedMom. 

I am going to keep writing, when I have something to say but for now I think my season as an influencer has come to an end.