Squidoo

answering this question/comment:

"can you explain what you mean by Squidoo account? I thought Squidoo was your website. Didn't you write every page on Squidoo?"

uhm… what? no. Squidoo was a social media site founded by Seth Godin in 2005, it was similar to Facebook, only it paid you for writing blog posts and short stories. You created a profile and then, every day you wrote a thousand word post on the blog section, sort of the same way Tumblr functions now, and the way Facebook functioned back in 2008 before Facebook was overhauled in 2018.

Seth Godin sold Squidoo in 2010, and the woman who bought it stole most of the articles off everyone's accounts and tried to republish them as her's. There was a huge lawsuit and we writers won, but, the settlement, when divided between the twenty million accounts, ended up with each of us twenty million users receiving a two dollar class action settlement check in the mail, and the rights to our writing returned to us.

Because she had to pay two dollar checks to each of the twenty million people who had Squidoo accounts, she filed for bankruptcy, and sold Squidoo. 

Squidoo was then bought by HubPages in 2013, and all Squidoo accounts became HubPages accounts. 

Squidoo had twenty million accounts at the time it went offline in 2013.

At the time it was a bigger social network then both Facebook and Twitter combined. 

Squidoo shutting down is WHY Facebook boomed in 2014 and suddenly gained so many new users so fast, because most of Squidoo's twenty million users migrated to Facebook and created Facebook accounts to replace their Squidoo accounts. 

I had a Squidoo account from 2005 to 2013, and had published around two thousand short stories there during that time. After Squidoo went offline I moved my short stories to Medium where they still are today, you can still read my old Squidoo pages, they are still online, they are just on Medium now. I moved them to Medium because Medium was the closest thing to a one to one replacement I could find for Squidoo. 

Squidoo was one of the singular largest websites to ever exist in the entirety of internet history, and at the time of it going offline it had more users then any other social network. 

At twenty million users each with hundreds, thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of posts, in total many, many BILLIONS are articles and short stories published on it… how could you possibly think it was my personal website or that I had written everything on it? 

Where did you come up with such an idea?

My mother's account was far bigger than mine, she had way more articles than I did, and she had thousands more followers and readers then I did.

I had around three million followers on Squidoo, but my mother's account had over ten million followers. Her account was huge because she wrote non fiction that mostly focused on paranormal, new age, Maine history. 

My account was Lord Sesshomaru fanfiction, at a time when I was phasing out the fanfiction stuff and switching to fully OC characters. 

If you were reading the paranormal Maine history articles on Squidoo, then you were following my mother and her brothers Richard and Bruce. Not me.

If you were reading the paranormal Maine history articles on Squidoo you were NOT following ME or reading MY writing at all.

The Squidoo account with paranormal Maine history, that was my mother's Squidoo account, not mine.

You've got me and my mother mixed up.

The FBI HAS been saying right along, that I was never the target, that it was my MOTHER the Claire woman seemed to think I was, that it was my MOTHER the backhoe driver thought owned my house… the FBI keeps saying, the backhoe driver was someone my MOTHER knew and my MOTHER was fighting with online… and the FBI keeps saying the Claire woman matches up with a woman my MOTHER fights with on Facebook, while the Kendra Silvermander woman matches up with someone my mother fights with on Twitter… the FBI, keeps saying they think these people THOUGHT they were attacking MY MOTHER when they drove the backhoe over MY house… the FBI keeps saying they think these people THOUGHT they were attacking my MOTHER when they attacked with the golf club murdering my son and crippling me…

and, BOTH these attacks happened BEFORE Squidoo went offline…

This revelation that people thought I OWNED Squidoo, and thought that EVERYTHING on Squidoo was written by me… opens up a new question about the MOTIVE behind the backhoe driving over my house August 8, 2013 and the golf club woman killing my son and putting me in a wheelchair November 14, 2013…

so if these people followed my MOTHER on Squidoo and were fighting with her over her (highly controversial) paranormal Maine history pages (which did list a lot of people's real names and home addresses) (and she DID have a page about ME calling me a witch and she DID have a page about my Dodge calling it "The World's Most Haunted Car" and I DID ask her several times to remove those horrid lies about me and my car, which REFUSED to do, which is WHY I cut off all contact with her and her Atwater relatives, in 2006, for now over 20 years)... then… is it possible the people who drove the backhoe over my house did so because they THOUGHT Squidoo was MY website?

There was a woman back then, who used to claim I owned NaNoWriMo dot org too, which again, one of the largest multi-million dollar websites on the planet, obviously is not mine. I don't know where people come up with these word ideas. So, I'm not surprised at people spreading lies about me owning Squidoo too.

But… does that explain too, these people who come over and yell at me about some guy named "Todd Murphey"? Is my mother writing online still somewhere? Is my mother writing stuff about some guy named "Tod Murphy"? What about that Mark guy that everyone keeps saying I know, but I don't know anyone named Mark, so I have no clue who he is? Is that Mark guy everyone keeps talking about, someone my MOTHER knows and or writes about? Is that why the Claire woman when she murdered my 8 month old son with a golf club, is that why she was screaming "I'm Claire!"? I don't know anyone named Claire and she acted like I had somehow been using the name Claire on something… was my MOTHER writing about someone named Claire? And was she doing it on Squidoo? These people who yell at me claiming I write about them online… and I keep telling them, I don't write nonfiction, and I have no idea who they are or what they are talking about, some of them HAVE mentioned Squidoo saying things like "you haven't changed since Squidoo", which always leaves me confused, because again… I don't write nonfiction, and I don't know who these people are.

And the Kendra Silvermander woman does the same thing. She shows up screaming "I'm Kendra Silvermander it's my turn to shine!" And same as the Claire woman, she acts like I'm supposed to know who in the heck she is or what my turn to shine means. But I don't know anyone named Kendra at all.

Are ALL of these people talking about my MOTHER?

Is my MOTHER writing stuff online somewhere and these people think it's me?

Is that what's going on?

This Tod Murphey person you all keep talking about… is that someone my MOTHER knows? Do these people think they are yelling at my mother when they yell at me?

This Mark person you all keep talking about… is that someone my MOTHER knows? These people keep saying I own money to some guy named Mark, there are guys that show up and say they are going to kill my family over some septic tank, I don't own a septic tank, I never heard of anyone named Mark, I don't own anyone anywhere any money at all. I don't know who these men are or who the Mark is they keep talking about! Do these people think they are yelling at my mother when they yell at me?

This Kendra Silvermander woman who keeps showing up and yelling at me, is she someone my MOTHER knows? I don't know who this Kendra woman is. She says things like "You haven't changed since high school", but I never even went to school, my parents pulled me out of school when I was 8 and I didn't escape that room thing until I was 31 years old 27 years later! Plus this Kendra woman looks at least 20+ years older then me, she's my mother's age… is she someone who went to high school with my MOTHER?

This Claire woman who murdered my son with a golf club and crippled me and put me in a wheelchair, did she think she was attacking my MOTHER when she attacked ME? She acted like she expected I should know who she was by her telling me her name was Claire, but I've never known anyone named Claire, PLUS… that happened only a couple of months after I escaped from that room I was locked in for 27 years, I didn't know ANYONE YET AT ALL! I hadn't yet got my glasses so I could see, I hadn't yet had my surgery so I could talk, so I can't identify her face and I couldn't talk to respond to her screaming "I'm Claire" at me either!

But right since day one, the FBI has been saying, there was ZERO EVIDENCE that I was the intended target.

Right since day one the FBI has been saying ALL EVIDENCE points to my MOTHER being the intended target and the backhoe driver and golf club woman mistaking me for my mother… the the FBI has been saying that for thirteen years now.

And the FBI HAS mentioned Squidoo. That IS a thing the FBI was talking about. They say my mother had a bunch of articles about a bunch of people, not just articles about me, my car, and her wild theories about me being a witch and my car having demons living in it. The FBI said she was writing articles like that about a lot of people in Old Orchard Beach. First time the FBI questioned me, they had a list of names, wanted to know if I knew who any of these people were, I had never heard of any of them, and his response was "I Know you don't know these people. I just wanted to see if you'd tell the truth. Your mother slammed the door in my face when i showed her this list. I took all the names off her articles. I think the people harassing you are all on this list, and I think they think they are harassing her."

Before Ben started denying there was a baby, my mother was the FBI's suspect of being the cause of why the backhoe drove over my house and why the golf club woman murdered my son. Ben threw a huge curveball into the FBI's investigation when he told them there was no baby. Then they started investigating him to find out why he was lying. Since then a hole slew of people became suspects BECAUSE of various lies they started spreading about me on FaceBook and Reddit… then the FBI found out MOST of them were my mother's Atwater relatives and focus shifted back to my mother again, with FBI thinking my mother was the one telling her relatives to slander me online to cover up her connection to the backhoe driving over my house and my son being murdered. Then her brother, the one who helped her write the Squidoo articles, became a suspect and hehad a connection to some drug gang in Connecticut and Arizona… so, suddenly there isother people being called suspects too… and all the while, the FBI CONTINUES to say "There is ZERO evidence you were ever the target, ALL evidence is still that your mother was the target and they mixed the two of you up"

So… yeah… now that I'm hearing people online saying that they THOUGHT all Squidoo pages were written by me… yep… NOW I am starting to see WHY the FBI was focused so much on my mother's Squidoo articles as being the cause of BOTH the backhoe driving over my house AND the golfclub woman murdering my son, WHILE saying evidence is my mother, not me was the target.