Why We've Quit Facebook

Last week, we received notice that our personal Facebook account had somehow violated community guidelines and that we were impersonating someone.

Despite attempting to prove our identity by uploading a photo and driver's licence to Facebook, our appeal was rejected.

Simultaneously, our three business pages were fraudulently taken over.

Our Brighton House Decor page on Facebook was hacked (see the Devanāgarī script on one of our posts), our wholesale Palatable Tea Towels page was diverted to a video site, and the My Event Decor Facebook page has been deleted entirely.

After checking the time and effort involved in attempting to reactivate our pages, we have decided against it.

After checking our Google Analytics statistics, since launching My Event Decor in January 2017, Facebook has contributed 4.0% of all visits but only 0.4% of our sales, compared to our organic visits and sales generated (51.8% and 29.4% respectively) in the same period.

While we really enjoyed helping respondents with relevant advice in the various home decor and business groups we belonged to, Facebook is a time-sucking rabbit-hole it is too easy to disappear down for any business.

Facebook advertising for our sister business Brighton House Decor launch last year resulted in acquiring unwanted, unengaged and we suspect, even fake followers so we didn't advertise again. 

Facebook, notoriously, doesn't provide any customer service and so sadly, we have decided to no longer have a presence there.

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