The past three weeks, we’ve had a scammer/spammer leave comments with trigger words on one of the social media pages I admin (I admin multiple groups and pages).

The first week I took the comment seriously as I’d hope any compassionate person would. I’ve also been trained how to respond to certain comments and the steps to take in order to tell if they are legit.

So rather than reply with gut instinct, I replied as I’d been taught to do.

I quickly realized this wasn’t real and took immediate steps to safeguard that page.

The second week, I wanted to still exhibit compassion- which should be our default- while also maintaining the integrity of the page and any other admins.

By the third week, I needed this spam scammer to go away. So I began the process of reporting these comments.

As I was in the process, unknowing church members began replying to the scammer.

Since then I’ve been getting tagged hundreds of times a day by accounts I’d never associate, tagging me in content I’d never associate with.

So today I took steps to be Meta Certified.

I had already gone through the community manager course (and passed!), but today I got the blue certification check next to my name.

It’s only $25/month, but that’s a small price to pay.

Jesus laid his life down for His bride – the church. I think I can spend $25/month to ensure she’s protected digitally.