Aaaaaaaaauuuuugggggh!!!! Hello. :)

And just how the hell is your fine day going?  :)

I got the message (posted below) the other day. Sweet right? What's baffling is I've had this Pinterest for maybe...5 or 7 years? Not sure. So, it took them, however many years, to have a bot or a human being decide that my "content" violated their policy. Here's the thing, the only flesh that showed on that profile...was of my mannequin. That's it. It had maybe 70 photos of my furniture, jewelry, clothing etc. But no human bare flesh. At all. 

Hi Vanessa, Your account has been permanently suspended because we found that most of your Pins went against our nudity and sexual content policies. You will not be able to access your Pins or messages, and you won't be able to sign up for an account using this email address. For clarification on our decision, please refer to our Community Guidelines. To sum them up: While we do allow some forms of nudity, we don't allow sexualized nudity, partially nude people in sexually suggestive poses, depictions of sexual acts or fluids, or fetish content. Pose, nakedness and activity are some of the elements we use to determine whether or not an image is appropriate for the Pinterest community. Pinterest Support

You know, Tumblr was purchased a few years ago for 1.3 billion, and was recently sold for less than 20 million. Yea, the investors took a bath on that one for over a billion dollars. I've had blogs that had millions of views deleted overnight by Google, with no warning, reason or cause given. I've been kicked off Instagram, Twitter and a few other places, plus my YouTube videos (some of them) are hidden behind a login page, as are some products on EBay, Amazon etc. 

Now none of this really matters to me. I mean I start a social media profile, throw up a few photos, people follow, people send friend requests, soon there are 10s of 1000s of "friends" following me, or millions of hits on blogs, on YouTube etc...and then "Poof!" they kill it. But when they do that, they also "kill" reciprocal links, answers to questions, the gazillions of "Favorites" or "Likes" that other people have done. Then when those people, and other people, go through that stuff, all they find is an empty page. So it disrupts their *own* site. And while doing so, the people whose profile they deleted, plus the followers, get frustrated, and leave.  

So what was accomplished? Ask Tumblr, MySpace, Geocities, or Tribe. Ask any of those dead sites that thought they were appealing to the "wholesome, family values" desires of the majority of their visitors. Guess what? They can't ask those people. Because everyone left those places and is off on Porntube or its equivalent, downloading porn, slapping off, or shopping on other sites for adult toys or whatever it is they desire. Its insane. Its insane because another site will pop up today, or in 5 minutes, that will allows that content, so its pointless from a business perspective because...adults like sex, adults like nudity, adults like their sex toys, and adults really, really, really hate it when someone tells them they *can't* read something, see or watch something. 

Now then, I have to run off and go sew together a Burka for my mannequin...apparently that naked bitch is "offensive".  :)