I am unimpressed, underwhelmed, and just plain old frustrated with my Facebook experience so far. Here’s my sad story; no names have been changed to protect the innocent. Sunday I tried to sign up for a Facebook account using my sailsinc e-mail addie. The screen told me that a confirmation e-mail had been sent so I wait, and wait, and wait but no e-mail turns up. Ok, it was 3 AM, have I mentioned anywhere in this blog I’m an owl my normal bedtime being 4 AM, so I figure maybe it’s because it’s so late though why that would matter I can’t fathom. Later Sunday afternoon I check, still no e-mail. Ok, I think, I’ll deal with this Monday.
DAY 2
I check when I get to work Monday, still nothing. I wait some more, until mid afternoon to be exact, nothing. I Google “did not receive Facebook confirmation” and find that there are others out there with the same problem. I’m told to check my spam and trash folders, well I’ve already done that but I check again, nothing. Then I find directions in the Facebook Q&A section saying they can help me out with this problem. I follow their direction and send Facebook an e-mail with my e-mail address along with the word “confirmation” as the subject. In my Google search I also find a suggestion to try signing up with another e-mail address. I give my sailsinc e-mail the rest of the day to see if the SOS e-mail brings results when it doesn’t I move on to plan B.
DAY 3 – Address #2
I go through the whole routine again with my Comcast addie this time, same results, nothing. I check my spam folders again; I check my trash again, nothing, nothing, and more nothing.
DAY 4 – Address #3
I’m going for broke here; I decide to try my Yahoo addie around 2 AM Wednesday morning. Not only do they once again say a confirmation message has been sent but they have this cool little button right there to take me to my Yahoo account. Alright, I think, third time’s the charm, I think, I press the little Yahoo button and off I go to Yahoo mail. If you have detected a theme here it will come as no surprised to hear I found……………nothing………again. I’m done, I go to bed.
DAY 4 1/2
I check Yahoo when I get to work Wednesday morning and miracle of miracle what is in my Inbox? Yes, glad I was sitting down for this, one of the elusive, worth its weight in gold, confirmation messages. So yes, I do have an activated Facebook account now but like I said I’m unimpressed, underwhelmed, and frustrated by the whole experience. And no, I still have no confirmation messages in either of the other accounts.
Sorry the whole experience was so frustrating Daisy! As I look back on this class, I must say the most difficult part for students has been the account-creation process, and I we often have trouble with this in face-to-face classes as well. In face-to-face classes now, I usually have students create accounts ahead of time because I once wasted an entire hour in an IM class trying to get accounts set up and confirmed.
There was a time when you could create accounts for different services without the requirement of clicking on a link in a confirmation e-mail. But, since Spammers often created accounts with phony e-mails and e-mail servers have tightened restrictions on what could go through, it has become much more difficult than it should be to register for any of these services.
I hope you find the Facebook experience worth the wait.
Kathy
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Cheers! Sandra. R.