Today's Work Stalled... Trying to Live in the AI World of Facebook as it is These Days - Open Memoir

 

Google Alert! - If my typing fast is a problem for the Blogger System or your mail system I've used for 20 years, please be sure to let me know... I never would have imagined that my speed of about 80 wpm could ever be faster than computers...

You’re Temporarily Blocked

It looks like you were misusing this feature

by going too fast. You’ve been temporarily

blocked from using it. 

This popped up when I tried to send a message to META

(Trying to get back on I wrote:)

This latest message is after 6 months of Facebook locking my account 

on Facebook. Let's us review all of this:

Facebook Account for Glenda Bixler, GABixlerReviews... Years ago I was

totally kicked off of Facebook "For my Safety" after being on that site for

at least,.or more than, 10 years. Given that the head of Facebook now 

has announced that they are no longer able to consider "safety" of 

accounts, I thought I would try one last time to discover why I am getting

popups from Facebook, even to the extent of, supposedly, creating a new 

account, which I did, only to be stopped from actually checking in... 

Then I was told I typed too fast and supposedly misused the site, whatever

 that means... It seems to be that I am being intentionally blocked from 

Facebook, while I was able to verify and secure an Instagram account. 

And, since I've been asked by Meta Support over and over if my

problem has been solved and l always submitted a negative response, 

may I suggest that my account should by now be reinstated, if indeed,

I was kicked off "for my safety..."

GABixler

~~~~~

3:15 PM (0 minutes ago)
Meta

Hello, First, this is a new email and this is a new time that I've been 

kicked off Facebook... And unable to gain satisfactory relief from 

Facebook. Recently my account was closed for something...at some

point the issue was addressed as advertising... I have never advertised

on Facebook. NO MONEY is involved with my activities at Facebook. 

The last time ultimately I was referred to an old page I had. I saw one

pic which was posted, after I had already received a message that it 

seemed my account had been hacked and that I was not allowed to get

back on until it was solved. It was about two years that time that nothing

was done. I changed my email account and rejoined although I hated to

change an address I'd been using for about 20 years. Yes I was on 

Facebook from the time it opened. I was, I believe, the first individual to

create Reviewers Roundup, a group which featured books, reviews, and

anything publishing. No selling was ever even involved. I was told that

my entire file was lost, but then I was able to find the page that 

supposedly I had posted which I didn't. I have now been told my account

to Instagram and Threads is also closed... with no explanation... 

I have never received complaints from these 2 sites and I post from my

 2 blogs there and a few times comment on other posts.

The last time I finally wrote to Meta and said "Isn't it about time to solve

this case and get me back on... I then proceeded to change my account

name...

I'm a blogger of books. I've been blogging on Google for over 20 years and

not once on any site have I been threatened--except by Facebook Staff. I

have from time to time asked why I was being monitored as it appeared

I was being discriminated against in some way... At NO time have I been

accused of anything other than some post being on one of my group

pages, which I would have immediately handled if the individual had 

chosen to contact me instead of... whoever... Facebook talks two-faced

in my opinion. When I returned, all of the groups were now closed. One

had a questionable entry questionnaire about my sexuality--something 

about whethjer I was female at birth!!! At that point, I decided to create

two groups to match my two blogs in Google and I post, share publicly

and I go away from FB given that they often posted some nasty gram

that I was being watched... NO other social site on the Internet has ever

claimed any of my posts were a problem. If I am remembering right over

the 20 years... In fact, I routinely monitored my group once FB was 

allowing people to use Messenger who were not on FB because they

would join my group, open, but oriented toward books (posted) and

post inappropriate pics such as videos... I deleted routinely and

explained why. 

It seems to me that FB has created an impossible situation. Many of my

writers had been kicked off for unknown reasons... Then they would

have to create a new account under a different name, having lost all 

connections that they previously had... I had the maximum of 

connections allowed when I was first on. My group had 13-15,000

 members.... all info was lost for the account... And, as recently as this

 week, I interacted with an AI assistant who popped up when I was

 being told my ID had to be verified. I had asked for a copy of my files,

given what happened before. I got good information from AI...but was

unable to copy or download even though it was attempted. Once again

I had lost valuable information provided by AI. A file had been sent. 

Later I searched for the file and it was gone. I searched at the Internet 

level, it was not anywhere I could find. But most of all, I am writing this 

because when I got the email about being suspended, I immediately s

started to appeal...only to see that the NO Return Crap was now showing

even though I had been asked for information. I had already written a

 lengthy response which was unable to be sent based upon a last-minute

change which only changed when I hit send!!! Just as the popup message

appeared above after I had hit send! That email told that I 

needed to go to my account to appeal.

Now I must wonder if Google is part of this entire effort under way to

destroy the average citizen in one way or another... We're watching it

happen daily...

My account remains closed and I am unable to sign in..... There are only

two obvious reasons for what FB has put me through, as well as others. 

The staff members are incompetent. Or, I and others are being purposely

hassled without cause.... Or without sharing/defining the issue. 

Seeking  verification is NOT a reason to be kicked off/suspended in my

opinion. Yet for two different times. A graphic image is placed as a guard

to my account and I can go no further... In the meantime, emails come

in from Facebook via my gmail. Totally worthless since I have no way to

actually click to my site and check out what the email is about. Believe 

me, I've tried several times and continue to get the graphic... Kinda

like the chicken or the egg argument, except I don't get to debate...

Let it be known that I am in the midst of writing an open personal memoir

based upon my own work experience with systems creation and 

management. I blog and rate the sites I routinely use, defining exactly the

situations into which I have been placed. Each incident like this results in

my going into PTSD, due to Job Burnout and the computerization projects

that I was responsible for. I already used some of the material I learned

from the FB AI associate. I took advantage of asking about the issue now

in the courts related to authors versus scraping used by criminals of books 

and how that has affected me as a professional book reviewer. The ability

to bring up links and information was fascinating and I got really excited.

Until downloading a copy of that interaction, which I normally do on all

sites when I chat, was impossible and later not even able to be opened

or found...

I recognize that I am only one person... Further, I have already shared

a post about the primary issue for authors as my last update. My blog goes

around the world to readers and writers.. I will be including this 

interaction as what has kept me busy today and prevented me from 

posting another review or two, which are half done at this point.. I 

needed the info given re my role as a reviewer from the FB Associate, 

while I was waiting for the download that was being monitored. 

This is not intended as a threat. It is a hope that FB will go back to the

warm, friendly book haven it once was, where interaction happened 

routinely between all those involved in publishing. Without any

reference to money changing hands... 

Has the world changed so dramatically that we have lost what I thought

was the purpose of social sites? Specifically, permitting people to meet 

and get to know others with similar interests from around the globe.

I've reviewed books for people from Australia, Germany, Canada and 

more... I've written reviews for Chinese Americans and then sent them

off to China and the orient to share with home countries... My blogs are

open. I had allowed a light copyright issue because my intent was to 

allow authors to refer people to my reviews from the author's own sites...

It increased the potential connections from about 100 to over 1000 and

more, depending on the author's method of using reviews I provided 

of book(s)... Again, all without any money involved. Other than the 

individual sometimes providing a copy of their book. At this time, I buy

all books I read, some of which are from Bookbub, a free site meant for

exchange... Again, No money is involved at any point of these activities.

Have we really lost the need to share about the wonders of reading? 

While others are trying to ban books, we are trying to share and talk 

about them... Is the world so divided by the rich that I cannot provide

a service for self-published book authors, especially, without cost?

Sincerely,

GABixlerReviews@aol.com
IPBookReviews@gmail.com

Please excuse formatting and possible errors. I'm not Ok... Having

corporations solicit membership at their sites, only to discover that

their evolution has led to apparent poor management is distressing,

don't you think?  I didn't want to take the time and rather have talked

about an important book... So what else is new these days?

Gabby

I Am About My Father's Business... This is for K...... A Morning God Incident! - Open Memoir

 

How do you solve a problem like Maria? comes from a musical with a setting during a time of war... It feels like that kind of time these days, don't they? Many of us feel like we've been abandoned by our own nation, even though, logically, we know that this too will pass...

But that doesn't help, does it? All of our lives, in small ways or large ways, we have felt a drive to find our dream... A dream that needs Love, Respect, Truth, and Support from Friends... In the past, some of us in some small ways also got assistance from our government... but that has been withdrawn by the supposed conservative republican group... who has worked to now have control that is supported by a biased supreme court that no longer supports Law... Only Power and Greed...

This morning I met a young mother, K....... Somehow I had successfully established myself on TikTok... And even marked somehow to start this site each morning... I've been intrigued that only Black people's posts have appeared each morning. So, I've begun to interact with them... Identifying myself as a white sister only... I wanted to know that indeed I am white, but under God, we are brothers or sisters... It's only been a few days of a popup first thing... So I've only been taking the time to talk with the first popup... But this morning, I believe I was led to check out a few more posts. All from Black women. I contacted one and am hoping we may get a discussion going here...

But then I clicked one more time and it was K...... She was A God Incident, even though I had not really started my day... Meds to take, cats to feed...bedside exercises... start a load of washing... You know, multitasking as we women are prone to do...

But K was crying...and the title was A Single Parent. Of course I am a single woman, but she is also a parent... My mind immediately went to my mother. But I knew one thing immediately also. She was in trouble. She was in emotional stress. Had become damaged... And her mind had stopped functioning routinely. She was Not OK...

She started logically... I'll use my own words to talk about it: Isn't it about time that a discussion begin about single women who have kids... She had already received many individuals returning a response. But, soon, I was aware that God had sent me to her...

She was Single. She had a job. She had children. And she Needed Help that seemed to be unavailable, even though she'd been trying to make it on her own... She had insufficient funds to meet basic needs.

My Mother had 4 kids. She was a widow with some government income. There may have been insurance because she bought a home and sold her marital home. We did move to a small town where relatives lived. But she was still working, it seemed, 24/7 to keep us together as a family. I remember the one time we children heard her crying.... She was in the basement where she kept canned food, pretending to clean the shelves there. It was shortly after her one son was leaving to go to a private school. Arrangements had been made by her neighbor who was also her primary employer. K...... was feeling as if she had nobody to help her. That was an assumption on my part. However, it was based upon my awareness of how this repubican president has gone after those who are DEI. Many of them Black...

It was clear to me, listening to her words, that she was now in burnout that required some type of medical support, if she could afford it. Burnout although not a medical issue, must be treated medically however. I've mentioned that I've been on a medicine for over 20 years due to the changes to my brain from Job Burnout that had gone on for years... I don't know any of her background, but I knew what I saw.

I saw me, crying, sometimes screaming at the world, lamenting that she had no help, yet was expected to be strong...

And all the white, white supremacists men were doing everything they could think of to ensure no federal government support from our own taxes paid, available for assistance... That money was building a ballroom, putting the presidential signature all over the world, stealing from programs that had been formally approved by Congress. For his own benefit and that of those Haves who had created this insurrection against a federal government that had worked to provide in the past, when the need was apparent. All of that had been washed away with one man writing his name over and over and over. And then bragging about it...

Signs of Burnout - How I became Emotionally Damaged...

Stress - Each of us have different responses to stress... For me, I either cry or get angry - and you wouldn't like me when I'm angry...

Signs of Stress which is the first clear sign of Burnout...

You have no time for yourself, you feel trapped, tired because you are always working... or dealing with home problems during times outside of when you are working and they don't want you to handle personal issues during work hours...

Your mind won't stop thinking... else you may forget something that needs done... At the worse times, I started keeping a notepad near my bed to jot down sufficient words that would allow me to remember what I needed to do next... or just remember...

But that doesn't stop your mind working...With me I chose something that worked for me. You may have other ways... Smoking, perhaps, or a glass of wine... both of those were something I was not used to consuming so my stress reliever was often food... None of these are healthful things to  choose. But in a time of stress, I'm Not Ok...and you might choose to give yourself a break from the norm in some way... Forgive yourself and use that time to help yourself... 

Sometimes music will help...

When I knew I was really in trouble, I called my choir director, who also worked at WVU. I thought she might be able to understand the volume of work that employees were assigned to complete. When she was not home, I called my pastor. He and his wife came to my home, immediately prayed for me. And after talking a little, advised I go to my doctor as soon as possible. At that time I was told to "Choose my job or my life..." I chose life, even knowing income would be a problem...

The pastor brought me a disk of instrumental Christian music. It was the best for me at that time. Words in music was not something I could endure--I'd heard too many words on the job and needed silence. I withdraw when emotionally overwrought. Dino was one of the pianists who I listened to as well as Yanni, and classical music... I also dropped out of all reasons to leave my home...

I lived alone at that time; my mother who had lived with me had died a natural death... The quiet I needed was available. Family tried to get to me, I ignored the attempts. I do not remember how long I became a hermit...

But this is for K and other single parents. Especially women. Especially at this time when white men supremacists are in control...

And attempting to use religion to explain their actions... How dare they!

A single mother is in major danger of becoming closer to official Burn out... There is no way to work at a low salary, have insufficient income to meet all of your needs, including babysitting to provide some degree of time for yourself. If there is another woman who came into the father's life it can be even more devastating as women have been betrayed and left alone to deal with a life where she is totally alone. For me, I was able to retire early because of years served. I was able to relocate and move into a solitary life... Mothers can't do that... I have great sympathy and empathy for those single mothers...

Books

If you have the funds to buy, or borrow, books, they can be a wonderful escape from reality... I choose Cozy books when I'm Not Ok. In fact, I would have been writing about one today, so look for it next... Includes animals, cat and dog characters in this case, and a good mystery. In fact, reading a mystery or thriller gets you involved so that your mind may be able to pull out of your misery for awhile, at least. Maybe after the kids go to bed... Each of us NEEDS TIME FOR OURSELVES!

Being Emotionally Damaged is nothing to be ashamed of. K didn't want to have her kids see a "less than" strong mother... But if you can't find help from people, then if they are old enough, and you haven't already done so, ask your children to help with things at home... Dusting, sweeping the floors, and more based upon their ages. Note: if all under 6, say, this won't be possible... so help needs to come from ourtide your home... Mom had each of her children take on household duties based upon age... By the time I was old enough, I was dusting, I recall, while another cooked for the week, one handle the yard, and one did all of the bed changing and washing, sweeping floors and the harder, heavier tasks... At a later age, I was carrying water to my elderly neighbors for a nickel... All money earned was given to Mom. My brother carried Grit paper until he left home for senior high... I took over his route... These are just a few of how a family can pull together to share more of the burden on a single parent...

We were a family totally involved in the Baptist Church. God and His Son were in our lives early and remained there. I was the only one that didn't marry and have children. I have never taken the time to really think about why that was my decision. Perhaps even then God saw a fatherless child would need special attention. I seldom worry about trying to understand God's plans or actions. 

Some thoughts on how some women became single moms... Of course, there is no reason to discuss the reasons. They may or will be entirely unique in my opinion. And only the women involved who becomes single mothers should work to understand the how/why of the situation in which they find themselves. I believe we should each strive to Know Thyself. It's important to understand so that you can quickly forgive anything you think might have caused your situation and forgive yourself. My father was killed in a mine accident. Killed by a horse kick. There was no fault...But even if a woman feels some fault, you need to learn to forgive yourself... Because your Father in Heaven forgives and still loves His children, even after having your own children... God is Ageless... is something also important to remember... He will never leave or forsake you. Trust me, I know that from my own experience...

An experience I willingly welcomed and continue to choose when any doubt comes into my mind...

Folks, let us not forget about women's health rights which were and continue to be screwed with by this republican party... Let's consider the one issue that is supposed to be christian-based... Remember when Roe was overturned and suddenly, all the women, pregnant women were being harassed at one of the most important times of their lives? Remember when, in order to get health care while pregnant, many were forced to go to other states to get proper hospital care? Or, remember when a woman who had died and the government forced that family to keep the mother alive until the baby was born? Or, let's also remember a child who became pregnant through rape and could not find assistance in her own state and had to relocate to another state, in order to receive appropriate medical care...

Just a reminder that everything I speak about is based upon documented news reporting...

Let's face it, especially about abortion... This has been an issue for hundreds of years, often initiated by poor mothers, or women who have been raped. Women's health rights have been removed under this republican party/administration.

BUT,

It's not enough to just claim that abortion is a right to life issue, while at the same time, this same party has pulled food programs in schools, for personal needs and more... Even married couples can no longer meet basic living needs because of actions by this administration... While they attempt to use some religious doctrine that may or may not be relevant to the involved woman.

Let me remind all women that white men have fought hard not to give women the right to vote. They even chose that Black men, about whom they had no desire to have them in politics, was given rights long before women. There is something very wrong, especially for those who claim they follow the teachings of Jesus, while working diligently to NOT meet the needs of the "Least of These..."

I say to all who read these words...

Two-faced men in politics speak only to ensure they get elected. Women have always been known--that is, Black Women--to bring about change through using voting rights... Voting rights which now the president has added to the long list of, you might call it murder, of people's rights so that he can use the money of programs, such as Medicaid. that once served the needs of the poor... I could go on... But we all know that women across the world have, for the most part, never gained the respect that should be given by one person to another... I know it, Black women know it...Many white women know it...In fact, it appears from the protests now going on that women of all ages are fighting back against a group that is clearly led by white supremacists men who feel their power includes controlling the lives of all women...

What a mess!

K... Know that You Are Not Alone

Gabby

Talking to All Women!

Message to All Corporations Using (Do Not Reply) When asking a Question?!!! But First A Word From Our God...

 

I've lived in God's World all my life... mostly in the country... where nature surrounds and reveals all of God's Blessings... 

In a world we seem to be living in these days, I wonder... How can we get our message across... About Jesus... About our Daily Needs... About our Hunger for food, a place to live, or even just somebody to talk to? Research has even shown that being deprived of connection with others can lead to serious problems... And we've all seen the results of many who may have been affected psychologically or just acquire a taste for power... Or maybe that drive for more money. Who knows? 

But what we do know is that everywhere we turn these days, there are many who want our money or attention... but have absolutely no concern for that real human that is, perhaps, living alone like me... Or surrounded by a family who talk all the time, but never listen to each other, because they want to talk first--always first... And, it seems, we dare not disagree, else we could be even placed in jail... Unless we can pay for attention... Yes, even something that was once free to use has now brought in sufficient money growth for the rich and top leaders who sell stocks, or whatever they do, to get richer and richer... They have achieved their goals of richness. Though the labors of many, many people often and most times... But...

Whether or not you believe that God created all that lives on Planet Earth is irrelevant, don't you think? The fact is, however, that the earth has supported the human race for thousands of years and we've now reached 2026 AD. The fact that even our time is based upon the birth of Jesus Christ, seems to have been forgotten. Perhaps that's to be expected? After all thousands of years have indeed passed. Many changes have been made. Even the dreams of what was needed for the survival of people have been met and continued to be expanded...

By people who dedicated their lives to the study and research of advancing and improving the lives of...people...

Supposedly...

Now Santa Claus is more important to children because their parents will buy them gifts--more gifts, often, than they can afford... But never introduce their children to the little boy who was born on that day and named after Him, the Son of God...

In olden days, people felt a need to worship a god. They even created statues to represent that source of life that they knew they must thank, because they believed that god was a source of all good that could come to them in their lives...

Those who were confronted with God's Son were changed. The word spread... Jesus had healed the sick. When lunchtime came, suddenly through Jesus all the food that was needed for a large crowd was supplied... But before that, there were also miracles performed, like a major body of water being opened wide so that those who were oppressed could escape those who abused rather than loved them... Even the miracle of food was provided along the way... Some of those got tired of eating the same manna every day and started to complain.

Those were the people, I imagine, who also later chose Barabbas rather than Jesus to die on the cross...

But many have pulled away completely. They don't believe in any of that god stuff, even while they have children that they love. Or even as in many ways, their lives have continued to exist without any effort. Their parents had provided the money--lots of it, for many. There was no feeling of gratitude. They figured out how to get the money until it was more money than they ever would need... And when they died, they left it to their children... 

Or maybe not... Had there ever been true love in that home? Were the parents loving and warm and kind? We people have grown in many ways. His visible wonders to behold are no longer thought about daily. There are many who never even have known about Jesus as the Son of God. Sent by God...

God had watched as people use the Free Will and many became selfish towards others... And through each year, until Now, in 2026, most people have no way to actually speak to another person. They have no contact with those who will remember that people need people. They have forgotten what a true and real relationship can develop between those who can love others even though they don't know them personally. There are those, like Barabbas, had chosen a life of greed and crime...

Based upon each day of over 2000 years, each individual has chosen how they would live their lives. And today, July 26th of the year 2026, the world as a whole has divided... Those who chose Barabbas. Those who Chose God and His Messenger. It is said that Jesus will not return until all across the world know the name of Jesus. Today, that surely has not happened, even after thousands of years...

There have been those who, though, wanted that return in their time not God's. In their minds, they felt it was right to use violence and crime to achieve their desire--they need to see fulfillment of their beliefs, whatever they were/are...

The time of wars were long and a period, during which I was born, began when violence decreased. The Holocaust had scared people. Bombing of Japan had scared people... Fear, a strong emotion drove choices to be made. Greed and selfishness were kept low-key, hidden and known only in the hearts of those who had chosen Barabbas...

People like Epstein drew those hidden people out into the open. Others saw the fun, the entertainment, the flash of those with riches, and they began to see Epstein as an example and method by which, in semi-secret their desires, which had been hidden, found an outlet... There were "Epsteins" all over, acting on their own to rape or plunder... Selling humans because the profit was better than stealing from others... And, slowly, people became different. Different in spirit and mind and heart. Some chose to hate anybody different from themselves, for no other reason than their own thoughts and personal opinions. Inflicting pain of all kinds became a part of that choice...

When those people chose a leader of their churches, they chose a man who, when asked if they could use violence to punish their children, that leader who became known and adored, because he supported their own opinions. They chose violence rather than love to raise their children. That happened in my lifetime... And when a Black man ran for president, that white man who led those who wanted violence as part of discipline, wouldn't even meet with the Black man who would become the first Black man ever to have been elected in this greatly divided, but often hidden underworld.

This then ends another God Incident... The following presents my opinion and message to the corporations which have allowed themselves to be separated from their customers...

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Every single day I am confronted with email...which has been computerized so that you cannot respond to that mail...

I was thrilled when E-Mail came into existence. For one thing it would save lots of money for those who had to buy stamps to communicate and pay bills... I kept in touch with friends on a daily basis, chatting back and forth during the day, at lunch, or taking a work break... AOL was the first social site I was aware of that both provided email as well as chat services... This was even better. In many ways... Chat rooms were able to be created, groups could share info for a meeting... All free on the new Internet.

My guess why they failed was because others saw the publicity of AOL..

And immediately saw the financial possibilities! Other sites popped up. All free to join... Other mail services began...all free...

Until around 2015, according to my calendar...

That was when a new president first start giving the Haves even more breaks for their businesses... Using Tax Dollars From the Havenots...

And the evolution began where the underground belly of society decided to become more public... Sure there were those Barabbas followers who had grouped together and used violence to become richer and feared... Groups like the Mafia that spread into other countries so that now there are mafia who have gone into business for cover??? And the violence stayed underground.

Until now, the worse time that many believe has ever existed. At least in the United States--and its influence on the rest of the world...And those who see, or have already received financial boosts from the major change in the 2016 federal budget for corporations, saw the most flagrant financial devastation all initiated at the top of the federal government... who favored or was being paid, perhaps, by heads of corporations for the deals being made... Who knows? I'm merely expressing my opinion based upon assumptions that can easily be drawn on a daily basis...

The Haves are in Control of this nation. And the Havenots are being targeted for extinction in one way or another...

One of the schemes, of course, are computers...and the sudden, intrusive use of AI, whether you want it or not...

One of the advantages corporations had quickly implemented when AOL came into existence (email that is) was to ensure that email could also assist getting rid of humans... naggers...people in need... having a problem... even dying... and not being able to communicate... Cell phones have complicated mail, but has ensured that there was still some way to cut off interaction; i.e., actually interacting WITH a Havenot... Ick!

I've already written about AOL using ad emails as a method by which I was asked to now pay for email I have used since AOL was created. Free... So, the punishment came first, I was inundated with hundreds of emails for ads for products of any kind and every kind. Some I am sure were fakes... Officially this is a formal 2 ranking for AOL including a 0 for communication.

Another 0 on communication goes to West Virginia University's computerize "My Chart" which states that we can talk to our doctors...but sends us Do Not Reply messages as well... AND, limits the length by which we are supposedly able to talk with the most important people with whom we would need to communicate... Patients learn the hard way, we start an email...write what we need and suddenly are being told we have exceeded the limit... So, we have to go back and try to edit out extra words, etc... but we still don't have the space to actually say/clarify what the health problem relates to... I stopped using system when they put in a new "canned" system which means it's a system built for corporations not for a single entity, such as WVU Hospital... I use it minimally now when I have to... It is now merely another machine I have been forced to accommodate my need to communicate...and failed.

There will be others but I'm honing in on communication today...

Yesterday, really was the cause I planned to write this article, with the above title...

Because of being overwhelmed by the lack of communication available to me at this point of my life, especially. And especially on supposed security issues that was waiting to destroy our lives, if not the world...

Sarcasm intended... I believe in security, but the competition, the lact of communication even among computer-oriented companies is totally lacking. Everybody is making money by making us fear the use of computers without this coverage or that... What a scam world it has become... JMPO...

When you are asked a question, you immediately assume that a response is being requested...

Not!

A Security Issue! Anything and Everything is About Security These Days! Right?

So I immediately started responding to the security issue that was presented to me in GMail.

I was being notified that my somebody had try to get into my Blog archives... Did I know anything about it? Note: these words are mine. Before this entire incident was over, the email itself had disappeared!!!!! I kid you not...

I tried to write what I could think of as possibly related...

Only then looked up and to see DO NOT REPLY    

LET'S GET REAL!

IF IT REALLY WAS AN ISSUE, DON'T YOU THINK IT DESERVES FOR SOMEBODY TO ACTUALLY EXPECT A RESPONSE?!

NOT GMAIL APPARENTLY...

BUT I was faster than the computer-- I copied the entire answer before that email was actually deleted from my GMail incoming list... I kid you NOT... I had apparently run out of the space they wanted to allow and it was auto deleted from trying to tell me about a security issue...

From the company that claims to be the safest for security...

Maybe so... But don't expect to actually interact on a problem...

Unless you follow the rules of proper communication protocols... I guess... I never pay attention to those. I resent them like I resent the attempt to eliminate people having adequate pay for doing meaningful work, which actually allows the use of our brains in hopefully helping solve problems that arise:

I have no understanding of how to check this report. I know I have archives. I know I routinely refer to them, and they are visible on my blog, Book Readers Heaven. Further, I know that they have become recently active because I started to review/talk again after health issues... I had seen "months" being open on my site; however, I have also seen by the stats that people are reading books from years past. This is the purpose of my library of reviews in my opinion, and should be encouraged... Referring to books in an archive is always open. There should be no issue unless criminal intent is happening.

On the other hand, I recently challenged the supposed viewing of one book in particular (see my feedback) which showed over 100 people supposedly reading my review on one day. I saw this as doubtful, questioning how the actual counting process was done--each day or cumulative. I assumed that it was cumulative since the count on one book was so high on the 7-day/1-day counting process. But I still don't know why security is a concern...

So, how would I know how to consider something has actually been hacked from archives? I check my views often and only note the 7-day review of rankings so that is not archival, except, as I said, more and more from different countries are, in theory, which I have assumed are reading Book Readers Heaven and this. Yes, I have noticed that it has increased when I started using videos to document/verify that what I discuss is back by reputable news agencies. I have assumed that have been read because I report on actions taken by this administration for instance in South America when supposed drug boats were being bombed...legally this could not have been proven to be true. People

were being killed on supposition rather than proven guilt... I did notice that once I stopped talking about south america issues, the readers reduced from that area of S America... To me, that somewhat made sense because of what I was writing about, which often included hashtag for country.

However, I've also noted and questioned over 1K of people supposedly visited my blog, but are NOT clarified/broken down in analytics. Meaning none of the charts reflect many, many views of blog(s) without any tracking provided to me... Are copies being made, I have no idea. I use a open copyright to use reviews for publicity, of course...

I determined the analytics were kinda worthless for true analysis of what I talk about, which is books. So, again, I can only go with what I've learned... Many of the books brought up in archives have also appeared in my shared references. Meaning that if the author gave me a good review...of MY review, then people went out to read that review... 

That's all I can think of at this point of the analysis and use of Book Readers Heaven in particular. I have not been able to report on my other blog. Somewhere along the time I was undergoing major operations and recuperation, the format was lost and I have not been able to figure that out, as recently as yesterday when I tried to follow the instructions printed on layout vs theme. Nothing worked correctly...

Any way, my readers will have increased because of my expanded use of music and book talk. I am not aware that any other social site other than Blogger's Book Readers Heaven does this type of review (I routinely add the complete music playlist as found in the book being reviewed. Therefore, logic says that many might want a copy of archives in order to either reproduce style, use AI to copy my process, or whatever... As far as I am aware, my review blog is one of a kind on any other social site. In my opinion, Blogger and YouTube under Google makes that possible... I am aware that AI can be used to eat and regurgitate my words. As they are doing with authors. It seems to me as long as criminals are now in control, anything goes, especially for criminal activities... Very sorry to know but not accept it as right...

BTW, I just got a message to do something editorially to supposed improve understanding... Garbage out; garbage ignored. Attempting to tell a writing blogger how to write and edit is not only an insult, but is normally wrong in its assessment, thank AI which is being monitored by people who do not write for a living... Just my personal Opinion, Of Course... But I digress... AI has become a trigger for my PTSD on computerization which some of you may have read about yesterday, second post, LOL... 

My sarcasm is meant as criticism. Have you read my lack of success in getting computerized for nearly 40 years on a university campus, and having to continue to work manually because of lack of needed computerization, only to be never given priority for money? I went into Job Burnout because of those years without gaining a success to my own development of what I needed to truly computerize a facilities management system. My flowchart showed the depth and breadth of what I wanted created... You see, from my standpoint, everything begins with the facility in which you work. therefore, facilities inventory is the very first computerized system that any corporation of size needs. Think about it. You have different types of services under google ownership. where are they located physically. What if you had a fire and a portion or a building was destroyed. What was in that building, you would immediately want to know... And how much would it cost to replace all that was housed there, as ordinary types of management could be easily performed with an integrated system. Covered by insurance, you would want to document... How does depreciation become involved in that cost estimate for insurance purposes...age of computers a factor, perhaps? or... I could go on... My conceptual framework for planning a computer system is not function oriented, it is GOOGLE oriented. There is some integration, but insufficient for me...The changes made on YouTube for instance has made it harder to use that site. Too much information is being thrown at users. They are inefficiently distracted. That is unless your goal is to attract children and teens as the primary users... rather than businesses...OR YOUR OWN OTHER SERVICES... By now there should be a connection much more smoother between your own services. I'm a Blogger therefore I should have stream-lined access to YouTube for purposes of use of videos on Blogger. No, not for all services. But servicing your own agency should be much more efficient if USE UTILIZATION was evaluated and programming followed  a goal of integration rather than programs being developed and mandated for use of one corporation without consideration of interface with, say, the various levels of government. 

I don't care that they are free...cost is not the issue in computer management systems... ARE your company divisions being served by independent computers on every site, without any connection?

I have nearly 40 years of attempting to implement a campus and state-wide facilities management system which would be the ground floor of all other systems development for an institution. The failure of senior leaders not seeing the overall potential of computerization from an institutional program perspective rather than by a functional status... This seems to become the norm, even while granting computers more power that most people don't know what to do with. Is this the chicken and egg question...? After failing not because of effort or knowledge but by decisions from higher level who chose not to even attempt to learn the mission of the office they were now leading, has been proven over and over and over that corporations purchase leaders who meet their desire to make money, but fail to see the value of their greatest assets. And it's not computer-based.

I've given you enough of an understanding why I will always be evaluating the sites I have chosen to use for my product, and merely link to other social sites for PR purposes... I have learned planning, while most institutions were developing products and making decisions thereafter... My job burnout was caused by having a job I had planned in my head, without the benefit of ever being funded by those units who got higher priority because planning for the use of computers had not been fully explored in advance for effective management by computerization...

Think about it... Start reading my blog from a management standpoint rather than a unit by unit attempt to figure out how and why somebody might want to steal my entire archives...

Or it could be simply that Trump has learned I write about him and am not his fan...and he wants to put me in jail as soon as he has full documentation to prove my disloyalty...

Do prison libraries have computers? Else I'll need to buy a laptop and work out how to get assigned to the prison library, even providing my own computer...

By my decision to respond to what seemed to be a very important issue, I apparently, or maybe, broke something. I did stop typing preparatory to sending a reply... I wanted to do it before I shut down the machine for the day. What started happening was that I was able to type as if a answer could be provided... Then letters started slipping... and though there was no error messages, or notes of space availability, I soon was being tossed around on screen, without errors showing up. Until I was ready to send and learned that I had received a DO NOT REPLY programmed email.

I have to wonder, if God was writing, would you answer, especially when a question/query had been asked? Would you accept God then saying (Do Not Reply) 99% of the time?

You know, folks, it was a book that first alerted me to this president. I have come to believe that God was ready to place me where I began over 20 years ago, to read and be ready to speak...For Him...

It was a religious book, the author was sharing translations of the Bible, I don't remember the content, because as I was reading, all of a sudden the name of DJT was there...claiming more or less he was "chosen..." and things were about to change... I immediately contacted the author. She didn't respond. I didn't continue reading or reviewing the book...

English Standard Version
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

Gabby

I Just Had a Fight! With an AI Bot! Owned by the Top Computer Company! God Help Me!

'Cause They are Hosts of My Blogs!

And I Sure Hope They Laugh at This...Else I'll Cry!

I really planned to hopefully finish my latest book so I could go back to talking about a book instead of myself... But I saw another video on YouTube, also owned by the same counpany... Frankly these are my favorite sites to visit... Sigh...

Anyway, it had TikTok as a possible share, so I clicked over to see, once again, whether I had the nerve to open an account on still another social site... Somehow or other up popped a new screen that said You and Google... Oh, yeah, I now remember, I wanted to try TikTok on my desktop, cause I need larger print, ya' know...  So Chrome would be the host for this new site... 

So, of course, I started checking out about me and Google rather than worrying about using another social site...

And I click on safety... I was told I had a problem with one of my passwords... Happened 30 days ago...Nobody told me? Anyway, I need to get to passwords so I had to sign in again, even though I was already signed in to another Google site. And I attempted to change my password like I've done at least 100 or more times... It didn't work.

What was worse, there was a password there that I knew I didn't create!

But it had my year of birth as part of the password. I WOULD NEVER DO THAT, I knew... So I sought help...

Yeah, you already knew... It was NOT a human... Furthermore, that computer could not help me and sent me some place else! Which really irritated me...

BTW, I think it was when I told that bot that I didn't understand when it told me to use Zoom and there was no way I knew how to do that on the screen... You know, of course, by now, I do not use a cell phone for the Internet... I figure it was telling me to zoom the screen... I reckon it could not imagine anybody who was not talking to it via a small little itty bitty piece of a box that is impossible to even type on or read...at least for me...

But hey, I've accommodated! I have both. My phone is for phoning somebody. My desktop is for all my stuff I want to do on the Internet...

Anyway, after it told me to go somewhere else and leave it alone, I got the message. And I kinda talked back and said that I ranked Google at 0 for communication because it wouldn't talk to me...without techietalk... and other insults... Well, let's face it, a computer is not a human. It has no empathy so why should I feel like I have to be nice to a machine?

So... I stopped a little bit and had lunch watching a video movie because my Direct TV hasn't worked for about 2 weeks... At least I was able to stop the movie in the middle since it was a recording previously saved...

And come back and talk about just why any machine problem sets me into PTSD... The longer version...

I was 18 when I started working in Personnel as a records clerk, introducing new employees to all the lovely paperwork you must fill out when you are hired... That began my interaction with the mainframe. I did all the work got it to the right department and it went on from there to get those people paid... Lots of different activities that I won't bother boring you with... But then after working for two VPs, I was asked to apply for a new position in a new department... You know all that by now, so I'm just going to deal with the computerization...

I've mentioned that I had dual different VPs to report directly to. One was for the Instructional program of the University. As soon as I was promoted, he was working to get classroom scheduling computerized. I, of course, would be the one involved in creating and ensuring what was needed in any system.... I ultimately confirmed that Schedule 25 would work for us... No Money... That VP left. He called me... Alaska now has Schedule 25, and as far as I am aware, WVU may never had computerized that important function...

Our office was also responsible for creating and maintaining an inventory of all facilities we owned or used... We had to create spreadsheets, using a mandated classification as defined federally. Those sheets were sent to Keypunching services, keyed, and a printout was provided. Any manipulation or actual use of that information was done by hand... I had to know the how, whys, and potential use of millions of pieces of data...

Even though our office was part of the administrative services, we didn't report to the money group. That was a different VP. Money services usually got priority to get people paid, take care of the income from students paying to come to school, and then to pay all our bills... Somehow, facilities never got priority... Let's face it, if we couldn't get classroom scheduling computerized, then a facilities inventory of each room on campus was even lower priority... Still we had to accomplish the tasks... By hand...

Soon bosses started to talk small computers... and my staff actually had to learn about ADABASE, NOMAD, TIF and various others who somebody had heard of... We were forced to train in one or two of these software languages, even though, ultimately none of those were actually selected by the power group, of course--all computer people. All who already had priority systems that had were already computerized.

Fortunately my job got more interesting when I became responsible for Space Allocation/reallocation. All to be done manually, however. I really loved my job, except for never gaining money for computers...

Finally some money was found and we got a small computer using dBase. We loaded our facilities inventory and was able to do some simple manipulation and sorting activities. I had designed a facilities management system which iwould nclude all of the administrative departments as well as access for deans/directors. I had even met with the directors of those units, preparatory to expanding the database. This is the paper I presented at a Facilities Management Seminar of nearby universities, where I found that WVU was far behind with regard to computerization...

And then it happened. My boss/director was promoted by the new Asst VP, who brought in his own loyalists 2 of them. I was being assigned more and more work...that previously had been handled by the director. This director never bothered to even get an overview of what I did.

But, as Associate Director by that time, he assigned me the responsibility of creating a capital construction financial system, which I did, losing my secretary to become an accountant. It had taken me a year of my life to handle a complete audit of the capital budget for West Virginia University. This included working with Board of Regents staff, relevant institutional financial staff, as well as internal new staff who had never been responsible for the financial management of a small or large project. I got it done and, although we didn't get the total amount that we should have received, because of the mistakes being made by the director's staff who were double allocating funds, I did get somewhat over $1M for my year-long audit. 

During that time I lost funding for one of my own classroom project renovations for Eiesland a former music theatre which was to be upgraded as the largest lecture hall we had on campus, seating over 300... It was to cost about $1M which had been taken to also cover mistakes in allocation...

Things were being changed too quickly due to new administrators (sound familiar) and before long a reorganization had occurred. That was brought about by our hiring a group of consultants to complete a campus facilities utilization plan--something we should have been able to do with computers. Worse, the people who had been hired by others were not prepared to do the facilities analysis part which would have been done by my Facilities Analysts, if they had not been now supervised by a man who the new AVP had brought in, who did nothing to prepare him for his actual job, while I was doing my auditing... None of the ongoing facilities analyses were routinely completed. The office manager had been hired--who should have been trained to do the capital planning financial work... Instead, as I said, I lost my secretary so had no right-hand assistance. 

Further, the systems staff I had just hired preparatory to building an internal system, was left hanging without any guidance due to the staff reshuffling with which I had no knowledge. In other words, I was back years before when I was managing one half of the office. Nothing major had occurred in my absence.

To make matters worse, those people who were in the planning section did not know how to interact with the consultants who had been hired. I was the ONLY one who knew the nomenclature of facilities planning and analysis. And it was I who had to stay and work with them while the architect went home. You see, architectural teckie talk is different from faciilties techtalk - nomenclature... I at least had worked to learn how to read drawings, etc, as we wanted to go into graphics facilities inventory and planning... So was prepared to direct all aspects of the office.

Unfortunately I went into Burnout and was told to take a medical leave by my personal doctor. When I returned, I was again put on Schedule 25 and, of course, nothing was done to proceed.

Staff changes started occurring, a reorganization occurred and I was transferred into the Department of Physical Plant. Under the two-faced director I mentioned earlier. Now seems to be the time to explain just what he did. We were, supposedly, scheduling and meeting with him on an ongoing basis about coordination between the departments. What we would be doing first before they could begin construction... All the stuff that Trump also ignored and brought into the construction crew without any planning and approval.

NOTHING WAS EVER PASSED ON TO THE PHYSICAL PLANT DEPARTMENT construction staff who would be working together with mine!

One of my facilities planners was told when they scheduled a meeting to start working as agreed upon, that the director had NEVER PASSED UPON THE AGREED PLAN OF ACTION!

That Director also left and the new director told me he didn't know what to do with me. I was an Associate Director, which was higher in rank for many of his present people. None of my staff were maintained, the former office was deleted. I had no idea whether those consultants ever finished their work and provided a report... If not, then the allocation and utilization of space on that campus has not been reviewed campus-wide for over 20 years...

The new Director did come in with what he'd wanted to do. He assigned me the job. I was to create a Deferred Maintenance inventory and funding proposal. Again it took about a year and many manhours from Plant supervisory staff to do the legwork for such a system, including cost estimating for every single item, such as replacing a tree, which should be replaced... I completed the project. The Director accepted it as accurate and scheduled a meeting with the VP/Pres... He came back from that meeting with his head down, ashamed to face me. The money people had shelved the report. They wanted to build a new building to make more of an impression, it seemed... That's my assumption. I learned that the new Director had made it a condition of his taking the job. He had been lied to...

Oh, yeah, to add insult to injury... My entire system was taken into the new Asst VP Office who knew nothing about computers nor, I imagine, bothered to learn... That individual placed a security block on that inventory which prevented me from access...

I literally had nothing to do. That Physical Plan director also left. I was invited to work with the ADA office. She immediately started talking about merging accessibility for the disabled into the facilities inventory. I said something like, I'm sorry, I have no access to that system anymore. Her mouth dropped. And gave me the only words that I understood of the whole mess that led to Job Burnout...

YOU HAVE BEEN USED AND ABUSED AND THROWN OUT...

So, if I have an attack of PTSD of failure to be able to easily use a new change of some new computer system about which nobody has even the courtesy to tell us about human to human, I hope I can be forgiven for every time, it seems like daily, that I face a screen or cell phone which has been "updated" by some techie or AI or whatever, who knows? It could even be trained highschool students for all we know...who play with whatever comes into their minds day or night with the thought "What If..."

Now you know what led to Job burnout. I consider myself Emotionally Damaged from that abuse by WVU. For having leaders who refused to see the bigger picture than what they wanted done... Yet still required employees to complete the job assignments of creating work that required an effective, well-built computer system...

I'll let you all figure out why I used the ending videos... What was I thinking? LOL

Think about the following Story about many things, including the ways the computer is used to have the criminal issues done--as well as the story...

We have a lot to learn, but we must be sure that those using computers are working to help the citizens of the United States... not as a competition among software corporations!

Be humble enough to know that computers need to hear from those who actually have the knowledge and vision of what is needed, not the other way around. I believe in computers. I don't trust those who shove changes without contact or expect us to hunt our the tech jargon and try to figure out what/how to understand the latest change, which often and has been documented by me that actually created mistakes within my articles... Can you blame me for fighting back?

Gabby