In fall of 2020, Facebook started posting a message saying that as of October 2020, Notes would no longer be available to edit or to create new, but they would preserve the existing ones. I was upset, but not surprised. The Notes button on a profile page had gradually been moved to be harder and harder to find, and on Facebook pages as well. So I started thinking about other methods to save my thoughts, but at least I wouldn't be losing my old notes.
Sure enough, the Notes became locked. I put off doing anything about new notes, because I could still get to my old ones. And then one day I couldn't. Because they were G-O-N-E. Facebook had removed them entirely. The link to my Notes page just didn't resolve. I was so mad, and so hurt.
But then I found where someone posted how to dig them out of archives:
It's a little bit of work, but I was able to make copies of most of my old notes into my Google Drive. The only one that won't load that my feelings are hurt about was entitled 'I Am a Rhino', and it's about weight and self-image and had a lot of great pictures. And I think it's gone forever.
So now I'm loading each of these, and cleaning them up, into this blogsite, so that I can find them, hopefully, forever. Work that shouldn't be necessary, if Facebook would have just left them alone, but Fine. I'll handle it.
I'm going to try posting them, not as blog posts, but as pages, so they can be easily accessed from a list by title. Otherwise they have to be sorted by date posted in blog archive, which isn't ideal.
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