Facebook Has Put The Gherk “On Hold”

Meta Support says "product unavailable in your region"

Hi everyone,

A small update from the increasingly mysterious machinery of Facebook.

The platform is currently telling me there is a hold on my account and that I need to contact Meta support to resolve it.

When I contact Meta support, however, I receive the same generic response: the service is unavailable / unsupported in my region.

As reads:

I have no strikes, no warnings and no visible account issues. Everything I can see remains green, so at this stage I do not know whether this is a technical glitch, an automated error or a genuine restriction.

More broadly, Facebook is becoming increasingly sporadic and incoherent. Features appear and disappear, support channels contradict one another, and automated systems can apparently identify a problem while being entirely incapable of explaining or fixing it.

I will keep trying to escalate the issue, although I am not especially confident about the chances of getting a clear answer.

In the meantime, Substack remains the most reliable place to find my work.

That includes the longer pieces, shorter notes, updates and whatever else this strange little project continues to become.

So, if Facebook goes quiet, behaves oddly or simply decides the pickle is unavailable in its region, I am still here.

The Gherk remains operational.

Meta, less reliably so.

Thanks for continuing to read, support and follow along.

~ The Gherk