On Friday, February 2nd, the primary administrators of the Beaufort County Parks & Recreation social media sites discovered something was amiss on the Parks and Recreation Facebook account.

“I was in the middle of a Messenger conversation with a player who had questions about the upcoming Adult Volleyball season and the page just disappeared from my admin controls on Meta Business Suite”, the employee said. “ After contacting the other admins, they too discovered they had lost admin privileges, for reasons unknown to us at this time.”

The Facebook account was originally created in 2013 and has gained a healthy following of local families and sports enthusiasts in the last decade. Beaufort County Parks and Recreation has enjoyed being able to facilitate transparent and open conversations with residents and used the platform to facilitate the distribution of information to the public regarding sports and recreational programming. Unfortunately, while support tickets and requests have been sent directly to Meta, Meta has not resolved the issue and Beaufort County staff expects it will take too long to recover the account.

“The citizens of Beaufort County deserve a timely replacement of their Parks and Recreation page, so we're encouraging everyone to follow the new page and un-follow the old one. With the Spring sports season quickly approaching, we want to be sure that we can communicate quickly and effectively with Beaufort families and residents. The old page should no longer be considered an official informational source and is now considered unauthorized,” stated Beaufort County Public Information Officer Hannah Nichols.

The new page can be accessed by tapping on the Facebook icon on their website at bcscrec.com or by visiting https://www.facebook.com/bftparksandrec.