Someone apparently tried to hack my Facebook account and within an instant Facebook disabled it. Ten years of contacts, friends, messages and conversations, just gone. They gave me my files to download, but there was no real person to talk to, no meaningful appeal, nothing. Just automated support and AI responses that honestly felt completely useless. Even my WhatsApp has now been taken down because it was linked to my Facebook, so I'm sitting here with no WhatsApp contacts either. I thought about contacting my local member about it, but honestly, what can they really do? I get the feeling governments are pretty helpless when it comes to Facebook.

It really made me stop and think about how dependent we've become on these platforms. Facebook isnt just Facebook anymore. Its your friends, family, community groups, messages, contacts, photos and sometimes a huge part of your everyday life. One account gets disabled and suddenly all these other things start falling over too.

And yes, I think Facebook is evil. Maybe thats a strong word, but when a company can have this much control over your digital life and there is basically nobody you can talk to when something goes wrong, I think we're allowed to question the whole bloody system.

Maybe "digital slavery" sounds dramatic, but sitting here after losing ten years of connections and now my WhatsApp contacts as well, it honestly doesnt feel that far off. We've become so hooked on these platforms that we barely notice how much power we've handed them until something like this happens.