Facebook Disabled My Account

To say that Facebook plays a huge part in my life is a bit of an exaggeration-- as I make certain it is for any other social media manager. Not just do I use it to talk with loved ones-- however I'm forever including web content to one of the many web pages I admin, whether for myself or for clients.

Facebook Disabled My Account

Imagine my surprise when I attempted to sign into Facebook one morning only to receive the following message:

My account was disabled? What does that even mean?

I attempted to visit with another browser as well as I obtained the very same message. Facebook disabled my account!

Facebook supplied a form entry page for those wanting to write to Facebook about their impaired account, and also I emailed them basically asking why my account was handicapped and just how I can obtain gain access to back to the many web pages I'm an admin for. I discussed that I take care of a selection of pages for clients, and was constantly conscious regarding the content I posted-- after all, my moms and dads are on Facebook as well.

After sending the e-mail to Facebook, I sent out an e-mail to the buddies who's email addresses I actually had and also discussed what happened. Thanks to the connect-ability of Facebook, most of my friends were only able to be gotten in touch with by me on Facebook.

The replies I received from that e-mail were identified right into three different classifications:

- WTF/WTH-- why would certainly they do that ??
- Is it due to the fact that you posted political stuff (I such as Ron Paul and also shared content about #OWS).
- Maybe somebody flagged you.

I research several of the articles by others that have had their accounts handicapped to discover why my own was unexpectedly pulled-- without alerting I must add. The publishing dates on the posts cover the life time of Facebook, revealing that the business has actually forever gotten on a behind-the-scenes campaign of disabling accounts at their discernment.

I located some short articles by famous bloggers or reporters, consisting of Roger Ebert, Robert Scoble, and also Stan Shroeder (Mashable). Many of these high-profiled Facebook users had their profiles and/or pages reabled right after Facebook uncovered that they disabled. For the rest people, we're generally on our own.

Checking out these articles really did not impart much hope in me or my circumstance. The realization of what I lost was starting to set in too.

Over the years I had computers accident, swiped, lost, etc. as well as count on Facebook to organize all my travel and also event pictures. The site isn't going anywhere anytime quickly, so why not post all my images on Facebook for my friends as well as family to watch at their discernment? There were more than 2000 pictures, plenty of video clips, blog posts (notes), plus all the calls (I still haven't had the ability to reconnect with several that were all lost when Facebook disabled my account). This was looking to be an extremely stark scenario as I better understood simply what was lost.

I needed to gain back accessibility to Facebook to take care of the web pages for my customers, and additionally for my own ventures. Many of my web pages' admin gain access to were shown to a partner and were conveniently set back up with the new Facebook account I begrudgingly created, cursing Facebook under my breath as I established the brand-new account.

Several of the Facebook pages admin accessibility were shared with my customers, whom I needed to call to have them re-add me with my brand-new account. Every one of them asked "Why did your account get disabled?" and rightfully so. I, as well, would certainly examine the individual I paid to manage my Facebook page why their Facebook account was handicapped. Wouldn't you?

I still don't have a solution to that concern. "I have no suggestion" is the answer I still give, because its real. Facebook has still yet to offer me a reason my account was impaired. After reviewing the factors Facebook handicapped accounts on their web page I was still in the dark. I didn't spam-add individuals, post sex-related web content, pester anybody. so why they erased me really did not make good sense. Just after I review other articles did I comprehend a little bit extra.

Facebook can disable your account if your display screen name is different than that on your birth certificate. Mine was, yet not by much. It was still phonetically the very same, but spelled different than the remainder of my family. I likewise had a client that recently made use of a contest promotion to raise their e-mail list. According to Facebook marketing standards, competitions can just be run on Facebook with either apps: ShortStack as well as WildFire. Could that be why my account was disabled? I inspected that customer's Facebook web page and it was gone as well. Aha!

Although the competition had not been exactly organized on Facebook (it was hosted on the customer's site), and the champion was alerted via email (you can not introduce champions on your wall), I was confident this was the angering action which had me ushered off Facebook without so much as a 'Au revoir'.

At this point it was about a week considering that I initially created Facebook that fateful morning, and also I still had not obtained a reply. I took another look at the web page allowing me to speak to Facebook, and clarified that I currently had a better idea concerning why they disabled me, and that I was sorry. I swore never to do something like that again (was it really that negative??) if they simply reable my account.

I sent that off and waited once more. After a few even more days I realized something. something very crucial-- I created a filter in gmail for Facebook emails. Even if they did email me, I would certainly have never obtained the e-mail because it was set to "Miss Inbox/Delete". Extreme.

So I sent out another e-mail to Facebook, this time around letting them know that I had a filter on my gmail as well as if they did call me prior to this email, I would certainly have never ever gotten it.

A couple of days later on I lastly got an e-mail from Javier at Facebook. Here's the only reaction I'll likely obtain 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 a juvenile response-- sure Facebook is a 'young' business, yet I'm sure there have to be a person there with far better tact than 'we're not mosting likely to reable your account-- don't email us again.' OK Facebook.

So what did I gain from my experience with Facebook?

1. Back up your account! You never ever know if/when they'll choose to erase you.
2. Do not manage your different customer's pages with the exact same account. If one page/account gets deleted, you will not shed them all.
3. A lot of my friends are pretenders who's accounts are either concealed from search, or they disabled the "Include as a buddy" switch making it impossible to re-add them.

Its had to do with a month since I had my account impaired, and also had lots of time to review the experience. I haven't attempted to call Facebook straight since I obtained the e-mail from Javier, however I did begin the internet site www.facebook-disabled-my-account.org, and also the hashtag project on Twitter #FBdisabledMe to accentuate the negative experience.

Do I want Facebook to transform their disabling plan? Nope.

I take care of a couple of MU sites and also if you desire somebody off your website, of course remove them/block them/whatever. However, for Facebook to disable the account as well as to maintain the data/photos/videos/ connections/blog posts, that is wrong. What would Facebook be if nobody uploaded web content onto the site-- No photos to share or tag-- No short articles to Like-- No status updates to LOL at-- It would certainly be NOTHING.

Facebook should allow those that they disabled to download their account, letting them obtain their photos/videos/notes/ and so on, prior to going off to the barren wastelands of Google+, or to RT their good friends status updates (as opposed to 'Liking' it). Facebook already makes it possible for an active account to be downloaded and install, so why not a disabled account?

It's time for Facebook to obtain a bit elder in this area-- especially with their IPO introduced. I'm actually thinking about buying stock just so they will certainly need to listen to my problem-- at the very least I'll benefit from them.

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

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