Facebook Deactivated Account

To say that Facebook plays a big part in my life is a bit of an exaggeration-- as I make sure it is for any other social media sites supervisor. Not only do I utilize it to talk with family and friends-- however I'm permanently adding content to among the many pages I admin, whether for myself or for clients.

Facebook Deactivated Account

Picture my shock when I tried to sign right into Facebook one early morning only to get the following message:

My account was disabled? What does that also mean?

I tried to log in with another browser and I got the very same message. Facebook handicapped my account!

Facebook supplied a kind entry web page for those wanting to contact Facebook concerning their impaired account, and also I emailed them basically asking why my account was disabled and also just how I can get access back to the numerous web pages I'm an admin for. I described that I manage a variety of web pages for clients, as well as was constantly conscious concerning the material I uploaded-- nevertheless, my parents get on Facebook too.

After sending out the email to Facebook, I sent out an email to the pals who's email addresses I actually had as well as explained what took place. Thanks to the connect-ability of Facebook, a lot of my friends were only able to be contacted by me on Facebook.

The replies I obtained from that email were identified into 3 various classifications:

- WTF/WTH-- why would they do that ??
- Is it due to the fact that you uploaded political stuff (I such as Ron Paul and shared web content regarding #OWS).
- Possibly somebody flagged you.

I check out a few of the posts by others that have actually had their accounts handicapped to learn why mine was all of a sudden pulled-- without alerting I ought to add. The publishing days on the posts cover the life time of Facebook, revealing that the business has actually permanently been on a behind the curtain campaign of disabling accounts at their discernment.

I found some write-ups by renowned blog owners or journalists, consisting of Roger Ebert, Robert Scoble, and Stan Shroeder (Mashable). Much of these high-profiled Facebook users had their profiles and/or web pages reabled not long after Facebook found who they disabled. For the rest people, we're generally on our own.

Reviewing these posts didn't instill much hope in me or my circumstance. The realization of what I lost was beginning to embed in as well.

Throughout the years I had computer systems crash, stolen, lost, etc. as well as relied on Facebook to hold all my traveling and also event photos. The website isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so why not publish all my photos on Facebook for my friends and also family members to check out at their discernment? There were well over 2000 images, numerous videos, post (notes), plus all the contacts (I still haven't had the ability to reconnect with several who were all shed when Facebook handicapped my account). This was looking to be a really bleak situation as I additionally realized simply what was shed.

I had to regain accessibility to Facebook to handle the web pages for my clients, and also for my own business. Most of my web pages' admin gain access to were shown to a partner as well as were conveniently held up up with the brand-new Facebook account I begrudgingly developed, cursing Facebook under my breath as I established the new account.

Several of the Facebook pages admin accessibility were shown to my clients, whom I had to call to have them re-add me with my new account. All of them asked "Why did your account obtain disabled?" and truly so. I, too, would certainly question the individual I paid to handle my Facebook page why their Facebook account was disabled. Would not you?

I still don't have a solution to that inquiry. "I have no idea" is the solution I still give, due to the fact that its true. Facebook has still yet to offer me a reason my account was handicapped. After checking out the reasons Facebook handicapped accounts on their web page I was still in the dark. I didn't spam-add people, article sex-related content, harass anybody. so why they erased me didn't make good sense. Just after I review other short articles did I recognize a bit extra.

Facebook can disable your account if your display screen name is various than that on your birth certification. Mine was, yet not by a lot. It was still phonetically the exact same, but meant different than the remainder of my family members. I also had a client that lately utilized a contest promotion to boost their email list. According to Facebook promotional standards, contests can just be run on Facebook through a couple of applications: ShortStack and WildFire. Could that be why my account was disabled? I inspected that customer's Facebook page and also it was gone also. Aha!

Although the contest had not been specifically organized on Facebook (it was hosted on the client's website), and also the victor was notified using e-mail (you can not reveal winners on your wall), I was confident this was the offending activity which had me ushered off Facebook without so much as a 'Adieu'.

Now it was about a week considering that I initially wrote Facebook that eventful early morning, as well as I still had not received a reply. I revisited the page enabling me to contact Facebook, and described that I now had a much better suggestion concerning why they disabled me, and that I was sorry. I promised never to do something like that again (was it actually that bad??) if they just reable my account.

I sent that off and waited once again. After a couple of even more days I understood something. something really important-- I produced a filter in gmail for Facebook emails. Even if they did email me, I would certainly have never gotten the email due to the fact that it was readied to "Skip Inbox/Delete". Harsh.

So I sent out an additional e-mail to Facebook, this moment letting them know that I had a filter on my gmail as well as if they did contact me before this e-mail, I would have never ever gotten it.

A few days later I ultimately received an e-mail from Javier at Facebook. Below's the only response I'll likely get from Facebook:.

Hi,

Unfortunately, your account has been permanently disabled for violating Facebook’s Terms. We will not reactivate it for any reason.

This will be our last email regarding your account. For more information about our policies, please read the Facebook Community Standards: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/

Thanks,

Javier
User Operations
Facebook

What an adolescent feedback-- certain Facebook is a 'young' business, however I make certain there need to be somebody there with much better tact than 'we're not going to reable your account-- do not email us again.' ALRIGHT Facebook.

So what did I learn from my experience with Facebook?

1. Back up your account! You never ever understand if/when they'll decide to remove you.
2. Do not manage your various customer's web pages with the exact same account. If one page/account obtains erased, you will not lose them all.
3. A lot of my friends are snobs that's accounts are either hidden from search, or they disabled the "Include as a close friend" button making it difficult to re-add them.

Its been about a month given that I had my account disabled, and had great deals of time to reflect on the experience. I haven't tried to speak to Facebook straight given that I obtained the e-mail from Javier, yet I did start the web site www.facebook-disabled-my-account.org, and also the hashtag project on Twitter #FBdisabledMe to accentuate the adverse experience.

Do I desire Facebook to transform their disabling policy? Nope.

I handle a couple of MU websites and if you want somebody off your site, of course remove them/block them/whatever. But for Facebook to disable the account and also to maintain the data/photos/videos/ connections/blog articles, that is wrong. What would certainly Facebook be if no one uploaded material onto the site-- No images to share or tag-- No write-ups to Like-- No condition updates to LOL at-- It would certainly be NOTHING.

Facebook needs to enable those who they disabled to download their account, letting them get their photos/videos/notes/ and so on, before going off to the barren marshes of Google+, or to RT their pals status updates (instead of 'Suching as' it). Facebook currently makes it feasible for an active account to be downloaded, so why not an impaired account?

It's time for Facebook to obtain a bit elder in this area-- particularly with their IPO revealed. I'm actually thinking about buying stock just so they will certainly have to pay attention to my complaint-- at the minimum I'll make money from them.

Have you had your Facebook account disabled? Did you get it back, as well as if so how?

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