My Facebook Account is Deactivated

To say that Facebook plays a huge part in my life is a bit of an understatement-- as I'm sure it is for any other social networks manager. Not only do I utilize it to communicate with friends and family-- but I'm permanently adding web content to among the many pages I admin, whether for myself or for customers.

My Facebook Account Is Deactivated



Facebook Disabled My Account



Imagine my surprise when I tried to sign right into Facebook one morning just to obtain the adhering to message:

My account was disabled? What does that even suggest?

I attempted to log in with an additional browser as well as I got the exact same message. Facebook disabled my account!

Facebook supplied a type submission web page for those wishing to contact Facebook concerning their impaired account, and also I emailed them basically asking why my account was impaired and also exactly how I can obtain accessibility back to the countless web pages I'm an admin for. I explained that I handle a variety of web pages for clients, and was always mindful concerning the material I published-- after all, my moms and dads are on Facebook also.

After sending the e-mail to Facebook, I sent out an email to the friends that's email addresses I actually had as well as discussed what happened. Thanks to the connect-ability of Facebook, most of my friends were just able to be called by me on Facebook.

The replies I got from that email were categorized right into three different classifications:

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

I read up on several of the short articles by others that have actually had their accounts disabled to figure out why mine was all of a sudden pulled-- without alerting I need to include. The posting days on the articles extend the life time of Facebook, showing that the company has actually for life gotten on a behind-the-scenes campaign of disabling accounts at their discernment.

I located some short articles by popular blog writers or journalists, consisting of Roger Ebert, Robert Scoble, and also Stan Shroeder (Mashable). A number of these high-profiled Facebook users had their profiles and/or web pages reabled soon after Facebook found that they disabled. For the remainder people, we're essentially on our very own.

Checking out these short articles really did not instill much hope in me or my circumstance. The awareness of what I shed was beginning to set in as well.

Throughout the years I had computers crash, swiped, shed, etc. as well as count on Facebook to host all my travel and also party images. The web site isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so why not upload all my images on Facebook for my friends and also family members to view at their discernment? There were more than 2000 photos, plenty of video clips, post (notes), plus all the calls (I still haven't been able to reconnect with many who were all shed when Facebook handicapped my account). This was looking to be a very bleak situation as I even more recognized just what was lost.

I needed to regain access to Facebook to take care of the web pages for my customers, and likewise for my very own enterprises. Many of my web pages' admin access were shown a partner and also were easily set back up with the new Facebook account I begrudgingly created, cursing Facebook under my breath as I set up the new account.

Some of the Facebook web pages admin access were shared with my clients, whom I needed to contact to have them re-add me with my brand-new account. Every one of them asked "Why did your account obtain disabled?" and truly so. I, as well, would certainly examine the person I paid to handle my Facebook web page why their Facebook account was disabled. Would not you?

I still do not have an answer to that question. "I have no suggestion" is the solution I still provide, because its real. Facebook has still yet to offer me a reason why my account was handicapped. After reviewing the factors Facebook disabled accounts on their web page I was still in the dark. I really did not spam-add people, message sexual material, pester anybody. so why they erased me really did not make good sense. Just after I read various other articles did I comprehend a bit much more.

Facebook can disable your account if your display name is various than that on your birth certificate. Mine was, yet not by much. It was still phonetically the exact same, but meant different than the rest of my household. I also had a customer that lately made use of a competition promo to raise their email listing. According to Facebook advertising guidelines, competitions can just be worked on Facebook via one of two applications: ShortStack as well as WildFire. Could that be why my account was disabled? I inspected that customer's Facebook page and also it was gone as well. Aha!

Although the competition wasn't precisely organized on Facebook (it was hosted on the client's site), as well as the champion was informed via email (you can not introduce victors on your wall surface), I was certain this was the offending action which had me ushered off Facebook without even a 'Adieu'.

At this moment it was about a week considering that I at first wrote Facebook that eventful early morning, and also I still hadn't obtained a reply. I reviewed the web page allowing me to get in touch with Facebook, and described that I now had a far better suggestion concerning why they disabled me, and that I was sorry. I vowed never to do something like that once more (was it actually that negative??) if they just reable my account.

I sent that off and waited once again. After a few even more days I recognized something. something extremely vital-- I created a filter in gmail for Facebook emails. Even if they did email me, I would have never ever gotten the email because it was readied to "Miss Inbox/Delete". Rough.

So I sent out an additional email to Facebook, this time around letting them know that I had a filter on my gmail and if they did contact me prior to this email, I would certainly have never ever obtained it.

A few days later I ultimately obtained an e-mail from Javier at Facebook. Here's the only reaction 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 action-- certain Facebook is a 'young' company, but I make certain there have to be a person there with much better tact than 'we're not going to reable your account-- do not 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 know if/when they'll make a decision to delete you.
2. Don't handle your different client's web pages with the very same account. If one page/account obtains erased, you will not lose them all.
3. A great deal of my friends are snobs that's profiles are either hidden from search, or they disabled the "Include as a good friend" button making it impossible to re-add them.

Its had to do with a month since I had my account impaired, and also had great deals of time to review the experience. I have not tried to get in touch with Facebook directly because I obtained the e-mail from Javier, yet I did begin the 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 few MU sites and also if you desire a person off your site, by all means remove them/block them/whatever. But also 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 web content onto the site-- No images to share or tag-- No articles to Like-- No status updates to LOL at-- It would certainly be ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Facebook needs to allow those that they disabled to download their account, letting them obtain their photos/videos/notes/ and so on, before going off to the barren marshes of Google+, or to RT their good friends status updates (in contrast to 'Suching as' it). Facebook already makes it possible for an energetic account to be downloaded, so why not an impaired account?

It's time for Facebook to get a bit elder in this area-- specifically with their IPO revealed. I'm really considering buying stock just so they will certainly need to pay attention to my grievance-- at least I'll profit from them.

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