My Facebook Account is Deactivated

To state that Facebook plays a huge component in my life is a little an understatement-- as I'm sure it is for any other social media supervisor. Not just do I utilize it to talk with friends and family-- yet I'm forever adding web content to one of the many web pages I admin, whether for myself or for clients.

My Facebook Account Is Deactivated

Imagine my surprise when I tried to sign into Facebook one early morning just to get the following message:

My account was disabled? What does that even indicate?

I attempted to visit with one more web browser and also I obtained the exact same message. Facebook impaired my account!

Facebook provided a type submission web page for those wanting to contact Facebook about their handicapped account, and also I emailed them essentially asking why my account was handicapped and just how I can obtain access back to the various web pages I'm an admin for. I explained that I take care of a selection of pages for customers, and also was always mindful concerning the content I uploaded-- nevertheless, my parents get on Facebook too.

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

The replies I obtained from that e-mail were classified right into three various categories:

- WTF/WTH-- why would they do that ??
- Is it since you posted political stuff (I like Ron Paul as well as shared web content regarding #OWS).
- Perhaps somebody flagged you.

I read up on a few of the short articles by others who have had their accounts impaired to find out why mine was unexpectedly drawn-- without cautioning I ought to include. The publishing dates on the write-ups span the lifetime of Facebook, showing that the company has permanently been on a behind the curtain campaign of disabling accounts at their discretion.

I located some short articles by renowned blog owners or reporters, including Roger Ebert, Robert Scoble, and also Stan Shroeder (Mashable). A number of these high-profiled Facebook customers had their profiles and/or pages reabled soon after Facebook uncovered that they disabled. For the rest of us, we're generally on our very own.

Reviewing these short articles really did not infuse much hope in me or my circumstance. The understanding of what I lost was starting to set in also.

For many years I had computers collision, taken, shed, and so on as well as rely upon Facebook to organize all my travel and event photos. The internet site isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so why not post all my photos on Facebook for my friends and family to see at their discernment? There were well over 2000 photos, numerous video clips, post (notes), plus all the get in touches with (I still have not had the ability to reconnect with several that were all shed when Facebook disabled my account). This was looking to be a very bleak circumstance as I even more realized just what was lost.

I had to gain back accessibility to Facebook to take care of the web pages for my customers, and additionally for my own ventures. A number of my pages' admin accessibility were shared with a partner and also were quickly held up up with the brand-new Facebook account I begrudgingly produced, cursing Facebook under my breath as I set up the brand-new account.

A few of the Facebook web pages admin accessibility were shown to my clients, whom I had to call to have them re-add me with my brand-new account. Every one of them asked "Why did your account obtain disabled?" and also truly so. I, too, would question the individual I paid to manage my Facebook page why their Facebook account was disabled. Wouldn't you?

I still do not have a response to that question. "I have no suggestion" is the answer I still offer, since its true. Facebook has still yet to offer me a reason why my account was impaired. After reviewing the factors Facebook disabled accounts on their web page I was still in the dark. I didn't spam-add people, blog post sexual material, bug any person. so why they removed me didn't make sense. Only after I read various other short articles did I recognize a little bit a lot more.

Facebook can disable your account if your screen name is different than that on your birth certification. Mine was, but not by a lot. It was still phonetically the very same, but meant different than the rest of my family. I also had a customer that just recently made use of a competition promo to boost their e-mail list. According to Facebook advertising standards, competitions can only be run on Facebook via either applications: ShortStack and also WildFire. Could that be why my account was disabled? I inspected that customer's Facebook page and it was gone too. Aha!

Although the contest had not been exactly hosted on Facebook (it was hosted on the client's site), and the winner was alerted through e-mail (you can not announce champions on your wall surface), I was confident this was the angering action which had me brought in off Facebook without even a 'Au revoir'.

Now it had to do with a week since I originally created Facebook that fateful morning, as well as I still had not obtained a reply. I took another look at the web page allowing me to contact Facebook, as well as discussed that I now had a far better suggestion regarding why they disabled me, and that I was sorry. I pledged never ever to do something like that once again (was it actually that poor??) if they simply reable my account.

I sent that off and waited again. After a couple of even more days I realized something. something really important-- I created a filter in gmail for Facebook e-mails. Even if they did email me, I would have never obtained the email because it was readied to "Avoid Inbox/Delete". Harsh.

So I sent out one more email to Facebook, this time around letting them recognize that I had a filter on my gmail as well as if they did contact me prior to this e-mail, I would have never ever received it.

A couple of days later on I ultimately received an email from Javier at Facebook. Below's the only feedback 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 a juvenile reaction-- certain Facebook is a 'young' company, however I make certain there should be somebody there with far better tact than 'we're not mosting likely to reable your account-- don't email us once more.' OK Facebook.

So what did I pick up from my experience with Facebook?

1. Back up your account! You never ever recognize if/when they'll choose to delete you.
2. Do not handle your numerous client's web pages with the very same account. If one page/account gets deleted, you won't shed them all.
3. A lot of my friends are pretenders that's accounts are either hidden from search, or they disabled the "Add as a buddy" switch making it difficult to re-add them.

Its been about a month given that I had my account impaired, and also had great deals of time to reflect on the experience. I have not tried to get in touch with Facebook straight given that I received the email from Javier, yet I did start the site www.facebook-disabled-my-account.org, and the hashtag campaign on Twitter #FBdisabledMe to accentuate the unfavorable experience.

Do I want Facebook to alter their disabling policy? Nope.

I take care of a couple of MU websites and also if you want someone off your website, of course remove them/block them/whatever. But for Facebook to disable the account as well as to keep the data/photos/videos/ connections/blog posts, that is wrong. What would certainly Facebook be if nobody uploaded material onto the website-- No photos to share or tag-- No write-ups to Like-- No standing updates to LOL at-- It would certainly be NOTHING.

Facebook should allow those that they disabled to download their account, letting them retrieve their photos/videos/notes/ and so on, prior to going off to the barren marshes of Google+, or to RT their pals standing updates (rather than 'Liking' it). Facebook already makes it feasible for an active account to be downloaded, so why not a handicapped account?

It's time for Facebook to obtain a little bit elder around-- particularly with their IPO introduced. I'm actually considering buying stock just so they will certainly need to pay attention to my grievance-- at the minimum I'll make money from them.

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

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