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Re: Audio: Another story of someone kicked off Facebook

Jane Bagnano — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:23:45 -0000

Ialso had my facebook closedfrom them ,,one day Iwas in a network and the next day Iwasnt ,,,so Iwrote to fb asking why ?? then when Iwent to log in I couldnt !!!!!!!!!! said they closed my account ,,, no reason on why !!!!!!!! so Iwrote back andnow Iam waiting again !!!!!!! I loved fb games and my friends on there,,, I would like my account to open again!!!!!!!!!!!! please help if you can ,,thanks for sharing ,,,Jane at elysees0404@verizon.net

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therealshakim — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:07:07 -0000

they keep threating me as well. people are telling them about my views. they also say i cant request friends...what the hell is the site for then..theyre real petty. i want to get an attorney. im an x-ball player and theyre doing me wrong with no proof .

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Sean Thomas Dougherty — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:11:45 -0000

Hi I'm researching online because I was just kicked off of facebook this week and given really no reason. Unlike Nathan I am not running a business, but an an academic and a writer. I used my site to list readings, chat with friends, post music, the same as everyone else I thought. Suddenly last Saturday I was notified that my site was disabled. I have not been able to receive a reply from Facebook since then. I've lost photos friends sent me, poems people wrote and sent me, all kinds of personal info. Most importantly though the US literary scene has become quickly to rely on Facebook for contact info and for promoting readings. Now suddenly I am not able to participate in this and it has detrimental professional consequences. I have to reiterate, I was doing NOTHING to get kicked off and have real no understanding of why I was or what I am being accused of. I don't understand how this can be legal and was wondering if anyone knows what recourse I have?

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soren — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:31:39 -0000

Im a student of various sciences and sometimes work with Aubrey de Grey's organisations on longevity.
Recently we all moved our efforts to networking with scientists around the world through Facebook.
A colleague, the eminant scientist Dr Leonid Gavrilov started a group for we longevity science people, and it was a great success.
Researchers from Germany, Croatia, and all over the globe exchanged notes on important medical developments.
Great!
Untill Leonid was kicked off without warning!
With Leonid's dissappearance, all the discussions and topics we had engaged in were gone too.
The good doctor told me there was no warning he had outstripped any Facebook usage limitations, he was simply removed. The email he recieved stated he had been warned, and was pretty draconian in tone, to such an eminant and good hearted scientist.
This promts me fire off articles in the press, righfully questioning the wisdom of now using Facebook.
Ive written to them, telling them of my concerns about the destruction of information given in good faith to them, curtacy of their servers.
If they wish to shoot themselves in the balls, then I am also more than happy to help them in that direction.
I cant help but imagine the steriotype of spotty, mal-adjusted shit bags slouching in their office chairs, chewing on toxic pens and dounuts, playing doom and surfing porn in between randomly closing peoples accounts, and writing nasty letters to people -
Or perhaps its run by monkeys on crack
I am trying to get Facebook called to account for this type of behaviour.
Anyone care to join in if I can find a complaints body who will take this on???
Cheers all
Soren

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Kev — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:12:39 -0000

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Some times these guys forget how they got so big in the first place. That's why I just find new alternatives. Here's a brand new one, DiscoverMeLive.com.

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Steve lodel — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:01:22 -0000

The truth about facebook http://youtube.com/watch?v=...
Scary stuff!

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timsally — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:49:53 -0000

I wrote a blog post in response to this. Thank you so much Robert for taking this cause up. I think correcting Facebook's policies and setting a standard for social networking is very important.

http://www.randomoddity.com...

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Lady — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:12:44 -0000

Here's a thought:

They have memorials for mass murderers, but ban people for no real reason?
http://www.facebook.com/gro...

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S.P. Gass — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:10:55 -0000

I'll be interested in hearing more of this developing story. Myself, I just don't get Facebook: http://lowtechtimes.com/200...

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Tabitha Grace Smith — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:14:05 -0000

This is getting ridiculous.

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BrownPeoples — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:58:49 -0000

get over it people.

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Andrew Feinberg — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:24:25 -0000

Robert,

FYI, I was thinking about your question from the Dev Garage last week. The feature you were looking for (export to Outlook) existed at one point. When I joined Facebook in late 2004, I exported my contacts to my Apple Address Book because Facebook let me put their data in a CSV file.

The feature disappeared sometime in 2005. When I recently made an inquiry, they acted as if it had never existed.

Odd.

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Mike — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:04:11 -0000

Two things: Facebook will carry on, life as normal, this incident or even the traffic from this and linked posts will be read by exactly zero non-geeks who are signing up in droves. They could care less. We won't see mainstream TV news on the subject (I agree that it's wrong, and the triggers they use to "detect" "spam" are horrendously stupid).

Secondly, what about the tons really spammy applications? I got a "You have received a new video from XYZ, click here to view" in my inbox the other day. Clicking the link opened a window where I was prompted to invite 13 of my friends to install the app -before- I could view the video I was sent. Of course, I guess there wasn't even a video to start with, and had I "invited" the 13 friends, they would also have received a "you have a video from Mike, click here to view". And this is happening daily, and I see these apps last for days or weeks without any action taken from Facebook. Ah, I get it - ads and pageviews...that's the difference.

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Yoostin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:57:14 -0000

Hey Robert,

I remember and in fact still see that very problem on forums a boards when moderators erase posts and threads, it gives no one any boundaries. In real world communities we get great value from seeing the bounds of decency being enforced, it makes us feel more secure, secure in our own actions as much as anything so your so right with that last observation.

Facebook need to be really smart with this stuff, it could really hurt them to be perceived as having a split personality. On one hand they openly encourage folks to build business' in Facebook using the platform but, if someone ventures into slightly business like territory with their persona they get swatted.

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Robert Scoble — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:36:26 -0000

Justin: and we need a way to look at deleted Facebook accounts to see what their big sin was. That'll help all of us avoid getting erased.

All this does, though, is keep me from taking Facebook seriously as a brand.

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Yoostin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:33:37 -0000

Interesting, very.

Now I'm not blaming him but "always be closing" springs to mind listening to Nathan on that interview, he's very keen on fronting his site and maybe that's what triggered the facebook lock out. In the way he spoke he has a definite pitch that he sticks to so it's quite likely that his communications to group members and his message and friend request replies could well have contained the same pitch boiler plate style... Bleep bleep bleep Spam alarm at Facebook HQ, bye bye Nathan?

Claiming to have no time to orchestrate a spam offensive isn't the best of defences though, Nathan may want to rethink that line. By his own earlier admission he has time to "run this fantastic fashion site, myownrunway.com which is fantastic and about fashion at myownrunway.com" and enough time to run several groups messaging everyone that joins by the sound of it and replying to 40+ friend requests daily.

I think facebook needs a sin-bin for sure, suspend access for a few days and take the chill out time to contact recipients of the supposed spam and ask them to rate it for spaminess, let the community, those supposedly affected have their say?

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Andrew Feinberg — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:41:29 -0000

Should I tell the story on how they took my camera at their party because I was taking too many photographs after they paid the Eye-Fi guys to come in and snap photos of the VIPs?

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stewie — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:27:40 -0000

Banning people from services has gone completely out of control. Yes, they are private entities and they can do what they want but after being banned by one of the largest commercial players in the online space, where I made 90% of my income and invested years of effort into building that business I wasn't laughing.

Long story short: after spending months trying to convince them I really didn't know how I broke their TOS, and them refusing to tell me how I broke their TOS and simply telling me I'm banned for life I gave up. I opened a new account under an assumed name and carried on my business ever since, in ever present fear of being discovered. It's been over a year and I've made that company over a million dollars, still under an assumed name. They love my new account.

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Robert Scoble — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:58:40 -0000

George: you're very welcome to link or do whatever you want with my stuff. Thanks!

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George Athannassov — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:56:53 -0000

Robert, can put a link towards the interview and possible the mp3 file itself on our blog as this is important thing for us and we were mentioning similar scenarios to our customers for some time now.

No need to tell you that your blog, name and proper linking will be in place clearly showing who the author of this interview and this news is...

Thanks in advance

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Fubar — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:37:33 -0000

We need an open-source, distributed, & resilient social network that is NOT controlled by any one entity.

Why aren't they getting more space?

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Charly — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:27:22 -0000

Great interview. Facebook are just implementing the same sort of policies that Google use - draconian.

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Adam Nollmeyer — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:24:50 -0000

It happened to me at least 6 months ago....

My bigest problem, is they said I was baned for violating the TOS, however nobody could tell me *what portion* of the TOS I had violated.

I think I may have gone "poke crazy" one day. Either that or a signature on wall posts, however I don't post to walls that much.

Sent one email, then got a wishy washy answer, Then I pushed harder 3 weeks later.

There was a "final answer" of sorry, can let you back on. But I resent a few more times and got a differant case #, as well as had some friends make a little noise.

They let me back on, but I don't know what I even did wrong. My "network" was more important than "having an account". (note to self... put wife / friend as an admin on my "service page"

Adam Nollmeyer
Phoenix AZ Photographer

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Chris Saad — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:22:54 -0000

For some reason we can't mass message our facebook group members for the DataPortability group anymore either. No explanation.

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Blaspheme Bourne — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:22:26 -0000

Follow up__

If anyone is interested. Here's a couple (very wordy) post telling the story__

http://www.blasphemebourne....