Online Burn-Out And Recovery

[Nacht Segler]

Back in December of last year, I began a blog where I posted/wrote about how I was using history to heal. It was about my journey, spirituality, and how that is interwoven into the mundane world through my style in terms of wardrobe, interior decor, and vintage lifestyle.

As I was linking to items I got in Amazon, I thought about linking my blog to my profile there. My link was rejected initially and I thought it was a bug and so spelled out my blog info. in the profile.

This is where the problems started...

I noticed I was getting unusual visitor hits to my blog. Unusual in the sense that every time I changed the style, or layout, graphics, etc. of it, the hits would repeat. What I dedeuced was someone was taking screen shots of my blog posts and pages. Every. Time. I. Changed. Design.

Then in late Sept, the Twitter acct. I had was hacked. So, I closed that, closed my blog, and got new contact info., along with doing a factory reset on my phone.

I figured that I had gotten things resolved, that was until I attempted a Pinterest link in the Amazon bio. Again, that was rejected. By this time, I was suspicious because I got the company email that my link violated community guidelines. One problem - I barely had anything in the Pinterest acct., and what little I had (men's style, decor, healing for ME/CFS) could not violate guidelines. So, I killed that. Then, I put in a "dead link" to a long deleted blog I had to see what would happen. Same thing - there is *no way* a non existent blog could violate guidelines. So apparently someone on Amazon's side was tampering with my profile/acct. I can't edit my acct. and send myself company emails. It had to be someone on *their* side going in, erasing my info., and sending the company email - someone with "moderator"/"admin." status.

A few days ago, I spoke with someone in Amazon regarding this and they discovered there was unauthorized activity going on with my Amazon account. They helped me reset stuff and whatnot.

So, to close, if I come across as *extremely* leery of doing things online anymore...this is why.

I never had issues with Amazon in all the years I have bought from them (about 10+ yrs probably), and then this happens.

I'm burned-out and trying to recover from the online nonsense.