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Yes sir, I sure did, I pasted many times an article about this and still nothing changed.
Also, a month or so back, I was getting the dreaded pink box (100 times) saying that I was in violation and had tro enter some code in a box to prove I was not a bot or script.
Adult Toys | Doc Johnson | Sex Toys
http://www.graphsync.com
I hope you will join us to lobby for DataPortability.org
Think of it as OpenSocial - except no one owns it and it's more than just widgets.
We have all scraped for years on various platforms, so FB is not "new" in getting heavy, they obviously want to keep us all in.
Trouble is walled gradens typically get emulated at some point in an open environment, it's inevitable, I'm sure they must realise that.
Heck, even Gmail has an open API for getting contacts from it (though it's not working on Twitter at the moment :( ).
Justread43foldersandthearticleaboutlettinggoofsomeofyourSocialMedia.
Maybethearticlewastryingtotellusbothsomething.
Again,sorryaboutthelackofindentationbetweenworlds.
MorrieJohnston.Sydney,NSW,Australia
I would personally recommend loops with a minimum delay of 45 seconds, loosely ranging up to 5 min then a few longer delays along the lines of 1, 2, 8 and 12 hours.The longer delays should be fairly infrequent, but would give a better approximation of an active user, vs. a script.
Yes it will take longer to run than a quick script that scrapes 100 pages or so, but it still should run through 4999 relationships in about a week
In its benign form, this works because the service that the users get has more value than the information they give. However, the malignant form of this - and Facebook is not the only culprit - then attempts to lock users in to the service by making it impossible to take the information elsewhere.
The point is that services such as Facebook have to recognise that they don't own the information which makes their service valuable.
Facebook sucks anyway.
now if only i could erase my digital footprint from google as well. :)
Screenshot of top friends and a blank of where you used to be. ;) Cheers!
Rodney Rumford
http://facereviews.com/2008/01/03/facebook-bots...
http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability/...
I was banned in December and *still* am not sure for what. No scripts, nothing unusual...other than being participatory in the system that they created (I used their email, invited people, wrote on walls, etc.) They didnt even give my photos, videos, or contact information back - some of my business contacts were made and maintained on facebook so I have no way to recover them. I complained and they simply replied that the ban was permanent.
I was one of their biggest fans...now I've joined the growing chorus of detractors. Their own hubris will be what brings them down.
I could remember Mr.Eric Schmidt was saying ... "let users move their data around, never trap the data of an end user, let them move it if they don't like us"
Thanks
saran
As a new reader/viewer/fan, I think you need to broadcast yourself live, via your cell phone at Qik, 24/7 through this whole thing. We'll send pizzas or whatever you need since your phone will be tied up. It'll be fun. Of course you can order pizza via the web. Papa John's is good at this. And do some fun tours, perhaps of the Harvard dorm where Zuckerberg got things started. And walk up to people in public and ask them to be your friend. Tell them you just lost 4,999. :-)
Hope they don't disable mine ;)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19628302696
Given that, the company has to show it has some ideas about how to take targetted advertising forward at large scale; that is with a credible path to annual revenues of $5-10B in the next two to three years (with continued rapid growth after that). And while they're executing on their plan, they have to avoid becoming irrelevant.
From the position the company is in now, all this could be a pretty big challenge. Alienating users really isn't the way to build confidence that they know what they're doing...
There's one last remnant of you on Facebook. A while back, as a joke, I started a "Friends of Scoble Overflow" group for people who could not Friend you because of the 5K limit. If it can be of any use to you in your hour of banishment, I place it at your disposal.
Mickeleh
PS I have already changed my social network from Facebook.
Shouldn't the Facebook mat be facing the other way with you 'leaving' the building? ;-)
As in "you've been scobled dude": terminated, waxed, disabled, vaporized, eliminated, banned abruptly and without warning.
I find this to be a bit annoying because I am one of the many users who rarely, if ever, adds someone that I don't know in person. Having people maintain their own contact information for sync'ing with Outlook and subsequently my cell phone is a killer feature. Unfortunately we aren't allowed to do that.
In a recent Slashdot story, I voiced contempt for Facebook's meaningless notification messages and suggested finding workarounds using open-source tools to add the missing functionality. The comment was moderated to the top. Either Facebook's employees have been reading Slashdot or other users have complained about this issue because (coincidentally) the text of both wall messages and private messages is now emailed out. Maybe Outlook sync'ing will be the next hurdle they conquer after reading this?
Especially not a friend, who we trust to not do that.
So while I agree with some fundamental arguments people are making here, we can't rail against Beacon with one side of the mouth and then support someone using a script to lift my social graph for outside use without me knowing.
I guess what I'm asking is: do we really want a walled garden or not?
How about this? Can I write down your email address and put it in my address book?
Or, how about your birthday?
So, why am I allowed to write down your phone number or email address, but my computer can't take it out of Facebook and put it into Outlook for me? Or another program or service I'm using?
How about something that actually ads value, like something that'd see that you're on both Facebook and Twitter and Flickr and could mash those three together?
You would think that more then a decade after the Internet defeated the walled gardens of AOL, Compuserve e.a. people should know better.
The TOS covers some areas where we wouldn't want an application to scrape the contents, including others' message, contact info, and so on. That's what creates a thing called 'spam'.
Either you're accessing your own information, which we assume you have already. Or you're accessing information about other people, and they have a right to know this information is being ported outside of this application. Did you ask all your 5000+ friends if your interaction with them, and their info can be pulled from Facebook and placed into some other app?
As for 5000+ friends -- you must have a been a lonely kid, that you have to have so many 'friends'.
I have been annoyed by Facebook many times, and could care less what happens with it (I will just move to another, better social network). But when you have already established friends, and groups, that's such a pain in the ass that I'd rather they changed their TOS.
It depends on what you mean by public, if I share that data with my friends only on Facebook they absolutely should not have the right to republish it, use it for their personal use, sure.
Its a privacy thing, it'd be like me giving you my phone number and you publishing it in a directory without my permission, not okay.
It all depends on what you're scraping the data for, and what you're using it for. Transportation to another system, sure, public use, nope.
You can take it with you, but you can't publish it, give it to a third party on another system? Arguably no(by that I mean make my phone number visible to everyone else on another system, not use a program that stores data you have collected similar to a gmail contact list or the sort).
I gave you and Facebook my information, I didn't you, however, permission to republish my data, only to use it personally.
They no not what they do - or do they? :-)You out Twittered everyone!
Your a top draw and they need to show their might for now but not for long. Keep pushing the envelope.
That is just my opinion.
But i am sorry for loosing your account, I guess you can switch to myspace now or http://www.ilovetoargue.com :)
Thanks for posting a rebuttal to my blog post "Sorry Scoble: You don't own your friends." I've now rebutted your rebuttal. :)
http://apps.facebook.com/friendcsv/
The friendCSV app allows you to export your friends list and relevant data levels to a CSV doc that can be opened in Excel or any spreadsheet. Select the data levels below that you would like to include in your export.
If you're running an application that will then turn around and send me offers for Viagra. How is Facebook to know friend from foe?
good luck in your fight ,,,
I repeat: how is Facebook to know friend from foe?
You have that many friends because you don't mistreat them? Robert, you probably don't even know more than a few hundred people's names. You're using Facebook like an aggregator, not a true social network.
You're now listing things presumably you were using the script to gather, but my point is that I don't know how innocent the information is that you want. You ask about my name-- I have some friends who are artists who use pseudonyms and they are not searchable in Facebook, so yes- they actually do covet their names. Birthdays? Certainly you know the issues with credit card fraud and complete birthdays.
I'm sure you have a very reasonable and innocent, possibly even practical and helpful, reason for wanting whatever info you want. But some people rely on their privacy and don't want their data ported. I'm not one of them, at least not about all my info, but it seems to me we need to be careful about the straw man of, "but I could just do this..." - That's the same argument employers used when they'd hire student interns of a particular college to scope out potential employees when Facebook was college only. You certainly could just write down things on paper and build your own. That doesn't mean your friends would have given you good-faith permission to do so.
Did you try exporting your social graph into FOAF (http://foaf-project.org)
with that exporter: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~mrowe/foafgenerator....
Then, you can parse it and query it as any RDF data, or even merge it with other networks also described using FOAF (eg, from flickr: http://apassant.net/blog/2007/12/18/rdf-export-...
http://trueconfessions.wordpress.com/2007/12/11...
I'm not sure how I was pulled for "impersonating" someone, while Fake Steve Jobs continues to exist there, but at least Scobelizer is a real person...at least we think you are!
If I break an NDA I'll ruin relationships, etc and possibly end up in court. Both of which cost me time/money/opportunity.
You still have those hundreds of hours there, they are just in limbo as you are "disabled" - sort of like having a fan page unpublished. They can flick the switch and you'd be back on.
And some would argue that breaking social contracts has consequences too- just not always legal ones. This whole discussion may be as much a wake up call to only friend closer-to-the-vest "friends" and for people to stop friending relative internet personalities who accept everyone. Maybe this is a MySpace moment when it dawns on some that every one of their 1,000 close personal friends are neither and that because of unknown intention, a pruning begins.
If only it was a prison, but many ran into the keep because they wanted the walls.
Case in point, LinkedIn lets you download all your contacts in one fell swoop.
Disclosure: I work for LinkedIn.
That's news to me. I thought you made videos - as opposed to try to break usage agreements that you willingly signed up to.
Any other parts of your job description we don't know about? Or do you just make it up when it suits?
Yes yes, I know Plaxo used to be evil and spammy. Not so much anymore, and the Pulse thing is really not to be missed. (And no, I don't work for Plaxo.)
Taking one of your comments a step farther, would it violate their terms of service for you to outsource the same functionality you were trying to automate to a service provider in India or somewhere similar to do it manually? It would be an interesting face-off (pun intended) as they try to lock down your info and you manually - and I hope LOUDLY - work your way around it.
If they let you do it manually and they let a weak version exist - the CSV app - they not letting a power user implement a power tool is just silly.
r.
How do I get myself banned too? That would make my life a lot simpler.
Guy
Eric
Phone numbers, unlike Facebook social graphs, are actually portable.
No thanks.
I'll use Office at home and keep my data on my home PC.
Facebook is a kid’s game run by kids, they are not seasoned professionals ! I enter most of my data on Stumble Upon,Mahalo,
Lijit.Ma.nolia,Mixx.Connotea, Reddit, Technorati,et al Honestly I only used Facebook to pimp posts on my blog by others ! I don’t see any content on f-book worth lifting ! Facebook and their Legal Eagles just may have them sleeping outside !
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9589725852
Scoble - isn't Plaxo evil? I still get emails from people who 'added' me five years ago. IT NEVER STOPS. I'd rather join Spock...
I would argue that it's not Facebook's job to know friend from foe in this instance. That responsibility belongs to Facebook's users. Don't friend Viagra spammers and you won't have a problem.
http://www.mahalo.com/Scoble_Blocked_on_Facebook
As is evident by the fervor of comments here and the deluge of twitters and I am sure emails you are receiving, the idea of data and identity portability is a charged issue.
I agree with a lot of others here that as these various social networks evolve and mature, users seek to unify their identities online and try to make cohesive their various social communities. Getting access to the data that makes up your FB social graph is a step in that direction and even though I am sure you are whirling in all of this buzz now, your experiences here and endorsement of open sourcing efforts could go a long way to hopefully allowing social networking and how we all experience them to evolve.
I offer up my support and any other resources if you have need for them in all of this.
Take care,
Joyce
http://twitter.com/RhiannonSL
I have written in my blog project about your problem and my solution is OpenSocialNetwork http://www.opensocialnetwork.es/
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I think that what is worse is that the Saturn/General Motors ad uses your NAME. Was this without getting your permission in advance?
So it was with relief when the whole Beacon issue came to light that I 'suspended' my profile knowing that at least FB didn't have any information outside of the minimum... they can't keep what they don't have.
But who cares about nameless, faceless little ol' me?
Now, the world notices if FB pulls stuff against you, Robert - and that's all to the good.
Because their TOS and attitudes toward our data is reprehensible... You don't get to make money off of my information and then refuse to let me have access to my information.
It will be nice to see when FB either finally gives up on their "mineminemine" attitude or goes the way of so many other irresponsible sites.
Then it's up to them as to judge your credibility
Facebook clearly does not think our data belongs to us. I have also been locked out of being able to log in to my MySpace account for over six months and have not been able to delete it either, with no response from MySpace "customer service," so it's just hanging there for eternity, a frozen MySpace account. I once wrote about how Facebook was so much better than MySpace, but I won't any more, until Facebook changes its ownership policies. Robert, I hope your experience, and your friends' lobbying for you via other social networks, blogs, Seesmic, etc., will open up a new discussion on this issue with Faceook—but will they listen and change anything? That question remains to be answered.
Cathryn
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=667630...
And yes, I do accept PayPal!
Depending on what you've done they may sue you legally or they'll just close your account. I don't see anything more natural.
I don't understand the philosophical (or political) talks about 'who owns the data'. You sign a contract and you should forget that. Who owns the data is another thing.
Right, because poor little Facebook, with its $15 billion valuation, and 15 billion pageviews per month, stands a fair chance of being bankrupted by Robert Scoble viewing five thousand pages in too short a period of time. They're so going to need another OC-192.
Other people connect with you on the basis of that agreement, you violated their trust.
You don't own the data, it is a shared resource between your contacts (I wont call them friends), you and Facebook.
Take the rap and grovel or do the honest thing and move on.
The last thing we need is more spammy applications harvesting our data, why do you think 60 million people signed up to Facebook because they didn't want another MySpace or Plaxo.
Sorry and all that but grow up;)
Your secret friend, YA
Law(s),.........TOS's,Who's doing what to who???
This all sounds like a complete Cluster!#$$$*!
When somebody is visiting in a man's house,what rules
are we all supposed to follow to remain inside?
I hope you can get things worked out.
15 billion pagesviews per month? wow that was a great great number.
http://myfbcontacts.blogspot.com/
Who do you think is listening collecting and categorizing these social website
Please people start to use your brain !
www.zoknowstech.wordpress.com
You say you don't break NDAs because they are legal contracts and could get you into legal hot water and hurt business relationships. But the Facebook TOS -- which you agreed to when you signed up for the account -- is also very much a legal agreement. You broke it, they saw you broke it and disabled your account.
It's that simple. To complain about it after-the-fact shows either that you don't care about other people's legal agreements with you, or that you care, but will break the rules when it suits your purposes anyway.
In either case, you look like an idiot and I'm sure these kinds of continuing actions (willful disregard for legal agreements) will make people rethink their ongoing business relationships with you.
There are various FB opt-in applications out there so until teh API opens up more this is the only way ... sigh.
Anyways, all good to you and your digital life.
DOWN WITH FACEBOOK!!!
Facebook is a nightmare, I hate it with a passion.
It's the spawn of Satan blahhhhhhh
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1006009
Facebook? More like Farcebook!
That bites, dude.
Usenet is enough! Everything else is more of a waste of time.
(again... dude my sympathies)...
but I will say this... I tried to poke you and add you as a friend and I didn't get a response from you when I was going through the same issue you are now. KARMA my man. Don't get upset... I obviously felt rebuked by you because I wanted to talk. I had heard a lot about you... and felt like I didn't make it into your social networking country club. Oh yes Robert... they say your on the A-List.
Scoble has 5000 facebook friends and he hammered on their server with a script to retrieve said friends' info - of course he got auto-banned, if they didn't automatically kick anyone doing that, their servers would collapse under spam address harvesters in well under a week.
He can do the same job slowly, whether automatically or by hand, and they'd neither know nor care.
They reinstated him as soon as he promised not to do it again, mostly because he has a reasonably significant audience.
Of course, having come to the attention of "admins", *then* issues of data ownership, terms of service and personal beliefs or urges come into any ensuing dispute. TOS are, like all one-sided contracts everywhere, crafted to let the contract-writer off the hook while retaining for the contract-writer maximum flexibility to exploit the content providers, i.e. the punters.
Promises of confidentiality or protection of "personal data" are as empty and meaningless, as anyone with half a brain should be able to discern, as the punter's "agreement" to, e.g. provide their correct date of birth. Anyone who gives a correct date of birth to Facebook is an idiot, in my opinion. Once your info is on facebook, rest assured that it's freely available to anyone who really wants it, friend or foe. I'd be very surprised if facebook didn't archive all changes you've made to your profile, ever, and hang on to 'em in case they turn out to be in some way saleable.
As to the fickleness of admins, again this seems pretty much to be expected.
As with other inflated-value data harvesting operations on the 'net, *online*, Facebook appears to be administered day-to-day by kids, who do what kids always do when put in charge of something - they turn into pissy little megalomaniacs. This has happened with a lot of fast-growing online forums or services.
They start off ill-equipped for big business, they compound the problem by having to hire quickly and indiscriminately to cope with exponential growth, the numbers rapidly rocket through "scary" to "unimaginable" and folk in suits (hoping to turn a fast buck on the stock) will follow the founders practically to the door of the bankruptcy courts telling them how untouchably rich and great they are.
Smart and lucky ones cash in and get out while the going is good and the stock good and inflated. Some probably start up explicitly to attempt this, but what seems to sell well is a sort of more or less genuine initial naivety and idealism, so this has become a predictable pattern for internet success stories.
(Punters don't like to feel sold-to or exploited, but the most hardened idealists start to re-assess their ideals in light of millions of dollars.)
Google *appear* to be attempting to be different (not necessarily better or less sinister), but I think there's a recognition in the (financial) industry that google's value is inherently longer-lived than fashion-led success stories like facebook. Facebook can go to the wall anytime and major investors will still be happy, since they don't expect it to last anyway.
Naturally, this is just my opinion...
I have understood significance of free data export in social project. I'm running one startup - gettingtasksdone.com And it's was not so hard to implement export of users data. The main problem was in my mind.
I know you are an ex-microsoft yourself.
here is my anger response for this:
http://evalinux.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/warnin...
At least they removed all traces of you (that actually is a good thing) and didn't try to keep your information or likeness for their profit.
I was kicked off of a site, ERE.net - No, I didn't break their TSA agreement, and the owner, the guy who kicked me off, well based upon what he told me, he doesn't Remember exactly what I did wrong either.
So, 8 Years of My information, 8 Years of Comments, Members of Groups and networks, My personal Groups that I created, and acknowledged in ERE's media Kit as being some of the more popular, as well as articles I wrote, are stuck on this site, and I DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.
Here is an even more interesting story. Used to be that one could type in my last name (uncommon name) and the word ERE as a search string, and it would bring 60k+ hits; well in LESS than 2 weeks, it now brings up 1700 hits in google. It appears that they are Blocking Me Access to MY information via Google as well. 60k - 1700 in LESS than 2 weeks, that is a bit more than coincidence.
Okay, so let's bypass censorship, let's even bypass TSA agreements, which many won't hold up in a court of law for being totally vague, and incomplete.. (which I Did NOT break)
Let's look at OWNERSHIP of material, and loss of said materials. What should be considered Non Exclusive Rights - which means that the Author has some rights and the publisher also has some rights
So what are those rights? No, a company doesn't have the Automatic Right to Edit or remove another's PUBLISHED information w/o allowing them full access to that said published information.
Now let's also go back to TSA agreements. Many of these companies think that they can Unilatteraly Change their terms of Service in the Agreements w/o EVER Publicly telling their users, and not gaining their Consent. That is NOT the Case. All Parties MUST be aware at the time of Change if they want to continue or agree with the Terms of Service, and the information must be made Publicly for an extended period of time..
There are so many other issues that appear with these social networks, and It is time that we as the public really become aware of OUR rights in this process. What Do WE own, what RIGHTS do we have, and for sure, how do we go about maintaining those rights
Karen Mattonen
acssearch at prodigy.net
Good luck with getting reinstated on FB!
Sometimes I post things in Facebook that are literally only for my friends, if my potential future employers / family (i.e. grandmother) / others saw them well - it might not be the best career move. Whilst I am sure what you were doing did not have a "sinister" motive, you now can no longer publish email addresses (or even mobile telephone numbers) on websites without it being spammed.
I feel Facebook are in the right, just tell them what you were trying to do! They are allowing an export application... so its not like they are being "evil".
it seems facebook's eyes don't see anything rather then green dollars
now we see facebook is all about callect persons information and seel it
we saw this in project beacon before
smack yourself, then take a picture of yourself and tuck it away for ten years. Then, look at the picture in remembrance of how clueless you used to be.
what are some other reasons (besides violating terms of use) that face book would disable an account?
can a disabled account be re-enabled?
will she loose all her applications, pics etc. if thats the case?
how can i get hold of facebook to get some answeres?
http://www.lowculture.com/archives/images/busht...
It was replaced by a picture of Saddam Hussein after invasion.
Hi,
Your account has been disabled for persistent misuse of the site. Please contact disabled@facebook.com for more information.
The Facebook Team
i've not even done any spamming or removing anything i only use it to chat to my mates from work/ex college.. 6 emails to this disabled@facebook.com
no replys how long does it take them to reply to you
zak-24@hotmail.com
thx
Than all my emails to Digg support were ignored completelly. Traffic dropped 90% in the next days. For about 2 months I posted messages asking someone, anyone, to review this thing...
In three months I was alone on the blog.
I had to change domain and Digg account and start all over again after 1 and a half years of blogging.
Get real people, when you agree to the "contract", they own the data, fair or not.
Stop bitching about FartBook and use it to your advantage ;-)
Anyone actually stopped and gave some thought to the vast number of exploits/opertunaties available with FartBook? Think people, think.
And while you're thinking give a small thought to the fact that the internet is inherently insecure (every packet of data you send out contains both your I.P. and MAC addresses) this coupled with site tracking scripts, WHOIS and other tools, owners of websites and web apps know more about you than you think, including your country, ISP etc.
Robert, as much as I think FartBook are a bunch of losers, you are KING LOSER for no other reason than being a "script kiddie".
.../----\__/----\....
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/./..|........|..\.\.
|.|..|..LOSER.|...|.|
|_|..|........|...|_|
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Being a member of the scientific Web 2.0 Community, I have together with my colleagues set up a spcial track on 'Cross Platform Aspects of the Social Web' in conjunction with the I-MEDIA '08 - International Conference on New Media Technologies in Graz, Austria. The special track will deal with the issues you mentioned in this blog post.
Visit http://www.alexanderstocker.at/2008/02/cpasw-08... for more info on this special track. This one day special Track will cover the following guiding research questions from a scientific perspective:
* What are the fundamental interoperability challenges arising in the Social Web?
* What models, frameworks and technical solutions can help to overcome these challenges?
* How can cross-platform synergies be facilitated?
* What are the (side-)effects for existing platforms?
We am looking forward to bringing together scientist and practicioniers on this important topics. Everybody interested is invited to submit a paper to our special track.
Best Regards,
Alexander Stocker
Not good! But people are beginning to address this and in time facebook may suffer with loyal members finding other ways to create community.
See what she wrote below when I ask her the definition of "real name"!
Per our Terms of Use, "you agree not to use the Service or the Site to:
impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliation with any person or entity." Misrepresentation includes the use of a real individual name.
Additionally, please note that (again, per our Terms of Use), "The Company may terminate your membership, delete your profile and any content or information that you have posted on the Site or through any Platform Application and/or prohibit you from using or accessing the Service or the Site or any Platform Application (or any portion, aspect or feature of the Service or the Site or any Platform Application) for any reason, or no reason, at any time in its sole discretion, with or without notice." We will not be able to reactivate this account. This decision is final.
So Lauren Bacall, George Baker, Anne Bancroft and any women that is married would have their facebook disabled even though that is their "real" name simple because some "not-too-bright" rep felt on whelm it was appropriate to do so.
Maybe facebook users need to put some of the reps on trial?
I wasnt login the Facebook. These pages always gave that message ( Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here) Please help me.
What can I do about that? Why did you cancel or disable my account?
Please open my account. If I did a wrong thing, I apologize you. I m waiting your suggests and soonest reply
Best regards
dears
my google A/c is disable
somebody help me for activate my A/c
my email id is zabey143@gmail.com has disabled
I’ve heard this idea before. Who thinks there should be some sort of Facebook Union?
Essentially, it’s just like any other type of union. If one of us gets banned unfairly, we all stop using the site. They have to listen to the masses…
Many of us here are highly influential individuals, and we should all agree on the following:
1) Convicted individuals need a way to plead for their innocence and individuals who are not in violation of any rules should have restored accounts.
2) All rules should be stated clearly on the site, and non-damaging first-time violations of rules that are not made clear should be dealt with through a warning.
I’m going to be creating a Gmail account and all who are interested in becoming part of the Facebook Union can email me at facebookunion@gmail.com
All will be valued here.
I've just been suspended too because I did some scripts to test the "6th degrees of separation" theory, looking for friends of my friends of my friends... I got 200k+ users.
I received the same email - I answered. I hope I'll be back soon to FaceBook!
I don't for some unforeseen reasons, I cannot login to my facebook. I did not run scripts or whatsoever, just surfed and never could log back in. Password retreival says that there is no such account. I wrote to facebook, still waiting, it's been a week now.
They Should Always Give Warnings Before They Decide To Make A Stupid Move Like Disabling People's Accounts For No Reason At All When They Actually Did Nothing Wrong.
All I Was Ever Doing Was Commenting On Friends Profile Photos And I've Already Stopped With My Bad Habits Of Spamming Friends With To Many Email Messages, And Adding To Many Friends In One Hour.
All That I Had Ever Done On Facebook Since Then Was Comment On Photos Of My Friends.
I Spelled The Word Disabled Wrong.
Pardon Me For Punctuation And Grammer Spelling Of Words.
That Was My Mistake.
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Hi, I would like to ask when will be my account be activated again? The message of "Slow down or you will hit a block" prompts when I was trying to add some friends yesterday. I have never spam or abuse in the system, I am just trying to add some friends, I guess that the message of "Slow down or you will hit a block" may only lead to the function of Add to friends" being temporarily disabled instead of my account being blocked, but now my account was being disabled. If that message means account being blocked, so I surely would not add friends that fast. So I think your system message is too ambiguous to the end users. Hoping you understand, I am just a normal user to meet friends around the world, never trying to abuse or spam the system, so would you please activate my account to the previous status again ASAP? It is extremely inconvenient to me. I promise that I would no longer adding friends that fast, please recover all my account status so that my friends could contact me again. Please reply my mail ASAP. Thanks a lot.
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To whom it may concern.
My name is Hector Rincon Gonzalez, and since yesterday April 22, 2008 my account was disable by an administrator. Please refer to messages below.
E-mail: zanuit@gmail.com
I guess the restriction was a result of several issues unfamiliar to me:
1. Submitting a high amount of Friend Request
2. Joining to many groups
3. Many friends (actually 667 approximately)
4. Poking to many people
However it is crucial for me that Facebook enables my account due to the following facts:
1. Professional contacts locally and internationally
2. Various projects of Art and Writing in process through several grups
3. Calendar activities related to my work.
4. Information sharing realted to Web 2.0, Blogs and ohers.
5. Communication with family and friends around the word.
Please I need someone to help me because everything is on hold due to this terrible situation.
It will be a good strategy if you tell Facebook users by mail all the restrictions in order to avoid situations like mine.
Waiting for you reply…Regards
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Facebook User Operations has received your inquiry. We should get back to you soon. In the meantime, we encourage you to review our Terms of Use (http://www.facebook.com/terms.php) for more information.
Thanks for contacting Facebook,
Facebook User Operations
Can someone help me
Nuts !
http://rodrigo.typepad.com/english/2008/04/face...
/m
Don't waste your time at Ning either... the exact same thing happened to me there.
Why?
My guess is that these kinds of web sites are either too stupid or too cheap to employ someone to mediate these kinds of disputes. They make more money that way by saving costs, right? At least in the short run...
Disputes are human... normal... to be expected.
But ignoring users with a problem is an ignorant way of handling this kind of issue.
Anyone smart enough to address this problem out there?
Facebook apparently doesn't do it... Ning certainly doesn't either, in my personal experience. Be VERY careful with Ning!
Makes for ample room, though, for smarter competitors, I would imagine...
and im emailing them a whole day and i dint get one replay what is wrong here we cant keep quiet on this
p.s. my email is bpdute@yahoo.com
I wasn't doing anything wrong...
Hi Shahram,
Facebook has limits in place to prevent behavior that other users may find annoying or abusive. These limits restrict the rate at which you can use certain features on the site. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with the specific rates that have been deemed abusive.
Your account has been disabled because you exceeded Facebook's limits on multiple occasions when sending unsolicited messages, despite having been warned to slow down. We will not be able to reactivate your account for any reason. This decision is final.
Thanks for your understanding,
Kyle
User Operations
Facebook
There is a big difference between applications/services that scrape your information for their use and a application that allows a user to take their data and use it somewhere else.
The bottom line is that all this information belongs to Scoble. The connections, content, page views, etc - were all created by Scoble. Facebook just provides an interface and storage solution for the users data - and they get paid for that via advertising. None of this content, and therefore facebook, would not exist if the users don't create it. A user should be allowed to do with that data what he pleases.
200 + friend generating revenue for FB and their loosing credability....all I ask is for an explanation..........Anthony_d@live.ca
200 + friend generating revenue for FB and their loosing credability....all I ask is for an explanation.........
It has caused so much trouble and pain and loss, i can not explain. Now i am totally against FaceBook and want like minded people to share this view.
Why do we waste our time on FaceBook and at the end find ourselves without any thing, just being treated as Robot No. 1, No. 2, No. 3......
So Stop misusing your time and energies on FaceBook, join so many other Social Networking places those are human friendly and not for robots.
Sarfraz Ali
+92.333.653.3267
Terence Louw here...Was sharing this..and I had`nt been on my facebook account for 48hrs the next thing my account`s dissabled..UH ! puzzled ??
The ENTIRE Internet is about to be upgraded!
At no cost you can UPGRADE the ENTIRE INTERNET to Web 2.0 functionality!
The FUTURE of the Internet is about to be unleashed, PLUS they are giving away $1 million dollars split between those who join now to spread the word!
Look here now:
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Let me know what you think!
Thanks,
Terence Louw
and i`m sorry for that soo... can i have my account back ??
Terence Louw here…Was sharing this..and I had`nt been on my facebook account for 48hrs the next thing my account`s dissabled..UH ! puzzled ??
The ENTIRE Internet is about to be upgraded!
At no cost you can UPGRADE the ENTIRE INTERNET to Web 2.0 functionality!
The FUTURE of the Internet is about to be unleashed, PLUS they are giving away $1 million dollars split between those who join now to spread the word!
Look here now:
http://www.web2upgrade.com/TMAX
Let me know what you think!
Thanks,
Terence Louw
I think your at the wrong place to ask for tthis >!
it's my all family and my friends in really life + my all pic and that my emil and my nick name
so wat u disabled my account :S
i want it back plzzz
so plzzzz and i'll thank you .. and i'll be very thanks if you send to me emil
ramy_rita@yahoo.com
Facebook disabled you after 48 hours? I applaud them, after reading two of your advertising posts here.. I hope they can get you shut down in 48 seconds next time.
how can i activate my disabled facebook account?
it was disabled forever.
can you help?
i heard that u r a very good hacker
Take care
I wasnt login the Facebook. These pages always gave that message ( Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here) Please help me.
What can I do about that? Why did you cancel or disable my account?
Please open my account. If I did a wrong thing, I apologize you. I m waiting your suggests and soonest reply
Best regards
I wasnt login the Facebook. These pages always gave that message ( Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here) Please help me.
What can I do about that? Why did you cancel or disable my account?
Please open my account. If I did a wrong thing, I apologize you. I m waiting your suggests and soonest reply
Best regards
my relative account impersonate plz do help my name is kumar mukesh my numb is 9997560664,9411776811 give information how can i find the cyber criminal....
plz report abuse this impersonated account that is fake.......
fake account description-
name-nupur sinha
location arrah
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=96...
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=15...
plz do help and report abuse
i've emailed them 3time but havent got a response.
please help
thanks
Thanks for your time
Gwen Hayward
FACEBOOK SUCKS!!!
im all for a boycott or ban,
and visit my blog: michelmikhail.wordpress.com and post why you got banned or if you want to boycott.
Best,
Swimanog
it’s my all family and my friends in really life + my all pic and that my emil and my nick name
so why u disabled my account :S
i want it back plzzz
Can u help me
so plzzzz and i’ll thank you .. and i’ll be very thanks if you send to me emil
magic_mizo23@hotmail.com
I wasnt login the Facebook. These pages always gave that message ( Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here) Please help me.
film izle
My account got disabled 4 days ago. I sent them 4 email and no response as yet. Christmas is on the corner and I'm cutt off from my friends. I read the Terms of Use...and I have absolutely no idea what did I do wrong.
Ya, I do get one pop up from facebook, saying that they have lost my email setting and that I should enter email address and setting stuff again. I did that...and then I got the pop up agian next day. Did again....and after few days my account is disabled....
I feel so miserable and cut off from my friends. don't know what to do.
On top of it my ancestry records and family photographs going back to early 1800s and research going back to 1200s, 1690s and early 1700s.
The only thing I did was update people on what was happening in Zimbabwe (referring to ABC Australia links) and commentry on the need for more moderation and understanding on Avaaz site.
I wasnt login the Facebook. These pages always gave that message ( Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here) Please help me.
What can I do about that? Why did you cancel or disable my account?
Please open my account. If I did a wrong thing, I apologize you. I m waiting your suggests and soonest reply
Best regards,
Morning Mark, from Brisbane Australia.
I came across your name on a site Techsideup relating to a story “Facebook Founder Gets Adult Supervision”, that Marc Andreesen had become your personal mentor.
I then looked at some of the seemingly randomly disabled Facebook accounts by Facebook admin staff (including mine – see above) on Scobleizer.com
It seems to me that young inexperienced Facebook staff are playing judge, jury and executioner in making these seemingly random decisions.
I am extremely analytical and perceptive. This is no way to run a business.
Facebook staff need a broader view on life. Facebook is coming across as religious right wing extremist, which is not an “average” view of the world which you should be! Because that is the debate I was portraying and it seems some the other good folk that have been disabled.
I look forward to a positive response from Facebook Admins with regard to my Facebook account being reactivated (see reasons above).
I believe while it is an organisation that has grown quickly, they have not got their "back office" operations under control.
Some younger staff do not understand/comprehend some of the debate or the valuable role we play using Facebook as a medium to communicate eg. whales/Zimbabwe/nuclear/religious debate.
I wish Facebook well and am pleased to be back and operating.
it’s my all family and my friends in really life + my all pic and that my emil and my nick name
so why u disabled my account :S
i want it back plzzz
Can u help me
so plzzzz and i’ll thankr you .. and i’ll be very thanks if you send to me emil
romar_top@yahoo.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56963126139
thank you
today my facebook account was disabled for no reasons,
i dont think i even got a warning! i really didnt do anything
i dont spam or anything.
plz activate my account thank you i will really appreciate it
Like many others who have complained about a situation like mine, im helpless and frustrated.
I’ve tried everything, but nothing seems to work.ive sent about 10 Emails to all the Facebook Emails and never got a respond.
I don’t know if its worth it, me waiting to get some help from them.it makes me upset when I go to check if they enabled it and its still not working (I do it every day)
I really need this account back, with the same content that I had before they decided to come up on me.
I really hate feeling so helpless and that I cant do anything about it but sending the Facebook Costumer Services Emails and asking for help. I mean COME ON! I am not the only one who has this problem! It’s a 1 in a 1000000 chance that they would help ME (I was never lucky to get that much of attention).
I really feel like a dumbass that I actually hope that my Emails to them would change anything. This would probably be the 11th time I tr to get their attention, but I doubt it.
If I could only get them on the phone, and know that someone is taking care of it.
Ill keep searching and if I find some helpful way to get them just to listen ill let you guys know.
Good luck ,
T.
Please help me. I am very tensed upon losing the account.
Regards,
Rajan Tulsyan
oo I am very sorry .. but you need to comply with the TOS
what can i do for back same address please help me
my facebook id is usman danger""
have e-mailed facebook several times and never a response. I know this
question is redundant BUT is there any recourse? Perhaps this is something a curious press person could look into...give Facebook a bit of their own medicine with some highly publicized, well-deserved comments about their "customer service" or, rather, lack thereof. What's the point of telling people they can "click here" to inquire as to why the account was
disabled and, ultimately, one's query goes into a black hole of no response...
I wasnt login the Facebook. These pages always gave that message ( Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here) Please help me.
What can I do about that? Why did you cancel or disable my account?
Please open my account. If I did a wrong thing, I apologize you. I m waiting your suggests and soonest reply
Best regards
I was on there bad list because they kept disabling me. I guess if you are a rebel then you are banned. They should tell you when you hit the limit and how many stories are considered illegal.
Until the next post, much love, peace, and medicated hair grease.
- Thierry
Until the next post, much love, peace, and medicated hair grease.
- Thierry
(after you get your accont back, you might decide to not use it but that should be your decision, not facebook's)
http://facebookdisabledmyaccount.wordpress.com/
(after you get your accont back, you might decide to not use it but that should be your decision, not facebook's)
http://facebookdisabledmyaccount.wordpress.com/
MY ACCOUNT Barone Gustavo Vieira. MI CORREO. gustavovieira53@hotmail.com thanks
Many thanks Scott Thomas Simpson
dsimpson_991@hotmail.com
I don't mean to violate ur rules & policies.......I just wanted to expand my network for my future carrier.I promise you that i would never add too many peoples at a time.It takes me several months to make my profile and network in facebook......so please i beg you to enable my account once more.......Im extremely sorry.......i havent harrashed anyone till now.....you can go to my profile and check all the details.I hope you will forgive me and activate my account....Thank you
DID EMAIL YOU STATING MY CASE WITH THE ABOVE INFO AND NEVER RECEIVED AN ANSWER FROM YOU!
i HAVE OPENED A NEW ACCOUNT UNDER THE SAME NAME. cOULD YOU RETRIEVE, AL LEAST MY PRECIOS PHOTOS ...from my grandchildren, using Facebook also, and scatered around the world??
I'll appreciate your answer. THAKS!
My last account is chat_chara@ yahoo.com, my name is Johannes Bosco Harmin.Thanks very much.
i am visual artist and my account gets shut several times already
i loose fans, i loose clients
nobody answers my mails only a robot saying i violated user agreement somehow
thats it
what can i do about this shit?
I'm just a normal person, with roughly 30 friends who uses Facebook to share vacation photos and stay in touch with friends and family. Hardly sounds like malicious activity and grounds for having my account disabled, does it?
'Jada' has asked me to choose a new security question--twice. Yet my account goes on disabled. This reeks of a phishing scam despite the communications coming from @Facebook.com. Inquiries to other Facebook aliases have gone unanswered.
A quick Google search quickly reveals that I am but one of many thousands of people who have had their Facebook account disabled without warning, explanation or remedy. Add to that Facebook's unresponsiveness to my inquires to effect a resolution and they have become a poster child for egregious business practices. It's a typical technology David and Goliath tale where the market leader holds customers hostage with no ability to bring about a successful resolution to the errors produced by Facebook's erroneous algorithms that determine which accounts are flagged for disablement.
Let Zuckerberg and Facebook continue to turn a blind ear to it's customers. Hopefully, disgruntled Facebook customers will rally together and jump ship to friendfinder or some other social networking application that actually encourages social networking versus disabling user accounts without explanation or remedy. Hopefully they will take their eyeballs to another social media site before Zuckerberg has an opportunity to monetize their eyeballs to generate billions.
I am heading over to friendfinder. On my way there, I'm going to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau in San Jose, CA, and with the CA Attorney General as well as join the campaign against Facebook in a rally of support for friendfinder.
Come on, friends. Let's let Facebook know we've had enough of their egregious, monopolistic and unresponsive business practices and head over to friendfinder. Let's leave Zuckerberg and crew sitting in Palo Alto with a room full of servers and no subscribers. It's probably only a matter of time before they wrongly disable all user accounts as their security algorithms run a muck and no one responds to user email to bring about a resolution. I'm all for security, but c'mon, Facebook. How much of a security threat is a middle-aged woman with a handful a friends and a series of vacation pictures who logs onto Facebook at most 3 times a week to check in with friends and family?! You don't need an algorithm or security team to tell you that the probability of me posing a threat to Facebook or its users is nil.
There are many business cases of Goliath companies who became complacent even offensive to customers which created a gap to be filled by a company who gets it. UPS created a gap for FedEx to enter and grab a huge share of market. Microsoft created a gap with its resource-intensive, buggy, blue-screen-laden software graciously de-bugged by its customers. Enter Apple's super successful 'Switch' campaign portraying Apple as a place where....everything 'just works.' Those are two that immediately come to mind. Perhaps friendfinder is just the underdog to step in and fill the gap created by Facebook's erroneous account disablement and unresponsiveness to bring about a remedy.
I'm off to friendfinder...See everyone there!!
v-pills
We have all scraped for years on various platforms, so FB is not "new" in getting heavy, they obviously want to keep us all in.
some body help me?
reply this on my email, ucup_zie@yahoo.com
Please read this!
Warning! Your account could be disabled.
Your use of our Message feature indicates that you may be in violation of Facebook's Terms of Use. Continued misuse of Facebook's features could result in your account being disabled. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page.
I have not got an email explaning why? I havn't done anything wrong :S
Is there any way i can enable my account?
You think, especially in this economy, when there are so many other services out there and they're so desperate for users and revenue, that they wouldn't risk doing such things so easily, and without warning at that.
Bye bye FB.
I get a generic "your account has been disabled....read the TOS". No reason, nothing. Then they do not respond to 4 very polite e-mails acknowledging that I should slow down on adding friends (on a "supposed social networking site"). I actually made a lot of friends playing the game. All I get are generic CG form letters that mean nothing.
People say "just start over". No thanks....FaceBook can kiss my ass as being unresponsive and hypocritical and I am leading everyone I know to alternative sites that actually care.
ps. Maybe it was a sign that I spent too much time on FB!
There is no policy that facebook team or the administrator that do not allow anyone to accessed to their own photographs
Basically the rule is not fair at all for not letting anyone to access their own photographs that they uploaded
I have visited the links "http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf", and "http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=45", that I have confirmed with the terms of use on facebook.
I apologized for rule violations I have done in the past viewing pages too quickly, I was warned to slow down sending friend requests, and misused the features to harrass another users, and I have read your message above, and I might have view some pages too quick, and for sending so many friend requests, and having to send too many messages is possible. I would not do it that violates in terms of facebook use, and I am writing to inform my confirmation according to the Facebook Terms of use. In the future of my preference I would not use the feature of the offense for one another user on facebook again, and I accept the terms of Facebook policy and Terms of Use. I will not view pages too quickly again including for my future preferences, and I will not use the Facebook feature to harrass other users again. I would appreciate to hear from your reply. The agreement of Facebook Terms of Use do not allow people to use to attack, or threatens or impersonate other people's account and Facebook does not tollerate people to misuse the features of the facebook. I would also appreciate to have my account to be reactivated after being disabled and to restore anything in my account like pictures, and friends list. I would promise not to send friend requests so quick anymore. I would agree with the terms of use in facebook, by not posting pictures like spams that attacks one another users, or anything that is like verbally assaulting. I have promised to read your faculty and not to run scripts so quickly or posting anymore pictures that is not appropriate, or having to invade other people's privacy again. I have promised to accept the Terms of Use in the Facebook.
Thanks
Justin Lau
Our systems indicate that you’ve been highly active on Facebook lately and viewing pages at a quick enough rate that we suspect you may be running an automated script. This kind of Activity would be a violation of our Terms of Use and potentially of federal and state laws.
As a result, your account has been disabled. Please reply to this email with a description of your recent activity on Facebook. In addition, please confirm with us that in the future you will not scrape or otherwise attempt to obtain in any manner information from our website except as permitted by our Terms of Use, and that you will immediately delete and not use in any manner any such information you may have previously obtained.
We reserve the right to take any appropriate action in connection with any activities that violate our Terms of Use and/or applicable laws, including termination of your account and pursuit of legal remedies.
Please reply to this email.
Thank you,
Facebook Customer Support
Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer
You are blocked from making wall posts due to continued overuse of this feature
Your failure to comply with an earlier warning has resulted in this block.
Please note that this block is temporary and can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Facebook cannot lift this block for any reason. Please be patient and refrain from using this feature for a few days.
Continued misuse of Facebook's features may result in your account being permanently disabled.
Which of the following links describes what you were trying to do? Clicking on a link will take you to more information on how to use Facebook's features.
what should i do ehh? i dont want them to banned my account, alot of stuff there.. sigh!
I Just tried to log in at my facebook account and then they told me that my account is disabled .. Why the hell is that . . i didnt do anything wrong i didnt break any rules .. didnt do any thing that deserves that .. i dont know why did this happen so .. please if anyone has a solution for this problem just tell me because its not only me there are many others facing the same problem ..
Thank you
I NEED FACEBOOK lol i think maybe becasue i log in too much??.....its so stupid how can you ban some1 4rm a social networking site for socialising too much!! am so confused and am a teenager and will apreicate any help from ny1 hu can help me get my account back plz x x x
I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT A SCRIPT IS am just a teen x so confused
My account was disabled for doing nothing. I saw messages were sent by me but, they were messages to certain websites. To multiple people. This is unfair and I honestly had nothing to do with it. I think my account should be enabled again
I wasnt login the Facebook. These pages always gave that message ( Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here) Please help me. Please open my account facebook.
What can I do about that? Why did you cancel or disable my account?
Please open my account. If I did a wrong thing, I apologize you. I m waiting your suggests and soonest reply
Best regards,
garantiholding@hotmail.com
It is so frustrating that FB can destroy someones dream just like that. The complementary website i was planning will be tough to handle now.
not amused.
Rob
some one angry on me
the i get disabled in facebook
pls help me pls!!!
help
help
Mike - the fat burning dude
Now I feel like a stupid. I have been disabled. There is no answer for 10 days. I am not spam. I have some hundred "friends", students, readers of my blog (I have 40.000 visits, many people ask for friendship and I have tried to answer all of them copying and pasting the same mensage. This is a violation of conditions. Oh sir. What have I to say now in the next web 2.0 conference? I am stupid, facebook make me feel stupid.
I have tried to figure out (and also have asked Facebook via email) about their ‘Statement of Rights and Responsibilities’ but no help. I deserve an explanation at least. Or reason for this ‘discriminatory attitude from a social network. No?
Can anyone suggest something?
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:05:43 -0700
To: lists@markricher.com
From: The Facebook Team <appeals+d1l71o5@facebook.com>
Subject: Re: please activate my account
Hi Mark,
Your behavior indicates that you may be misusing the site. Please explain in detail your recent activity. Once we have this information, we will re-evaluate your account status.
The issue you experienced may be related to an internet browser add-on you have installed. If you use Firefox as your primary internet browser, please include a list of any add-ons or plug-ins you may have installed recently. This information will help us troubleshoot the reason why your account was disabled.
Thanks for contacting Facebook,
Gianna
User Operations
Facebook
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:24:05 -0700
To: lists@markricher.com
From: The Facebook Team <appeals+ncirfnr@facebook.com>
Subject: Re: My Band, Business or Other Organization Profile was Disabled
Hi Mark,
Thank you for providing this information. Facebook has limits in place to prevent users from running programs that automatically scan the site for certain content. Although this was not the case in your situation, viewing or refreshing pages at a rapid rate may cause your account to be disabled. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide more information about this system.
However, after reviewing your situation, your account has been reactivated. Please significantly slow down the rate at which you browse Facebook and refrain from violating any of Facebook's Terms of Use. You should also avoid using systems or products that automatically refresh Facebook pages. Further misuse of the site may result in your account being disabled again. We appreciate your cooperation going forward.
Thanks for your understanding,
Johanna
User Operations
Facebook
I am very surprised about disabling my facebook account. I only added my real friends and i sent messages to my real friends. I have never abused anyone or behaved anyone badly. Facebook warned me about sending friend requests but they are my real friends and 18.08.2009 my account has been disabled. I wrote e-mails to facebook but they havent returned me yet. 5 days happened from deactivation. I want to log in again in the same e mail adress. Plz help me, i want to return facebook. If they dont reactivate my account again i wont sign up again because i have never done bad action, i dont deserve this deactivation. Plz announce my complain to facebook authorized
Hello fellow honorable former Facebook members who have been unfairly and unjustly disabled from Facebook because of Facebooks insensitive, uncaring, completely ambiguous nonspecific rules, intentionally obfuscated regulations, limits, priorities and exceeding an unknown prohibited rate of making new friends policy as well as their practically nonexistent inaccurate extremely poor customer service!
Fellow justifiably angry former Facebook members will you please email your complaints regarding "DISGRAGEBOOK" to the Better Business Bureau of California by cutting and pasting WWW.BBB.ORG into your web browser and follow the simple instruction to access the California BBB complaint site. To access the correct California complaint site you need to have Facebooks zip code which is 94301. Once you are into the complaint form you need to have Facebooks corporate address, phone and fax number which is: Facebook, Inc., 156 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, phone number, 650-543-4800 or 650-853-1300, and fax number, 650-543-4801
Once you have filed your electronic complaint with the California BBB please fax your complaint to Facebook at their fax number, 650-543-4801. After faxing your complaint to Facebook please call Facebook 650-543-4800 &/or 650-853-1300 and leave a verbal complaint on their answering service. Now, upon completion of this, please snail mail your complaint to, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, inc., 156 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301. Upon completion of this, please snail mail your complaint to, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, State Capital Building, Sacramento, CA 95814
Dear friends, please ask all those you know who have been unjustly disabled from Facebook to send their complaints to the aforementioned in the proceeding paragraph. We need to get organized and inform the world that Facebook is not a cute little billion dollar social network it portrays itself to be to the public and to those who are silly enough to advertise on this wretched social network now rechristened "DISGRACEBOOK."
Thank you in advance for your participation in getting your complaints to those who will eventually correct "DISGRACEBOOK'S" insensitive inhumane non-benevolent disgraceful insidious business practices.
I so sorry and won't do again later.
Thank
Who decides who must live or die?
My account timo-4-ever@live.fr / Ali Bedar
I do not understand why.
There was nothing showing that there were any illicit elements according to your Conditions of usage.
No porn, no bad terms except in some jokes, no racism, no call-to-murder, no diffamation,…
So I repeat my question: at FB, who decides who must live or die?
Have I been signaled or anything else and by who ?
Did I used to much your functionalities and wich ones ?
Did I have to much friends or members ?
Please, answer to help me to understand.
this account is very important for me, i use it for my studies, iand it is the only way that i can hold contact with my friends class, i m directer of most popular moroccain groups in facebbok, I am the director of several important groups and pages of Associations philosophical, religious, and political.
Please reactivate my account, it is an emergency. =(
Who decides who must live or die?
My account timo-4-ever@live.fr /Mr-sinos Alooz
I do not understand why.
There was nothing showing that there were any illicit elements according to your Conditions of usage.
No porn, no bad terms except in some jokes, no racism, no call-to-murder, no diffamation,…
So I repeat my question: at FB, who decides who must live or die?
Have I been signaled or anything else and by who ?
Did I used to much your functionalities and wich ones ?
Did I have to much friends or members ?
Please, answer to help me to understand.
this account is very important for me, i use it for my studies, iand it is the only way that i can hold contact with my friends class, i m directer of most popular moroccain groups in facebbok, I am the director of several important groups and pages of Associations philosophical, religious, and political.
Please reactivate my account, it is an emergency. =(
He then ripped me off in other ways, and I never got paid ad ime. He stole my ideas and incorporated them into ushow.com
And then he got my facebook account disabled along with all my facebook apps.
I don't understand how facebook listens to trash scam artists with no originality and does whatever they like.
I'm about to sue Joe. Too bad ushow.com is a cross between youtube, twitter and facebook along with my ideas.
It would be nice to own it anyway though.
Your account was disabled because your affiliation with your high school network was not successfully confirmed within 60 days of joining Facebook. We have reactivated your profile and removed this pending affiliation from your account. Let me know if you have any further questions.
What is that suppost to mean? Are they going to reactivate my account? Because I tried logging in this morning, and it still won't let me!
Help anyone?!
i have no idea why i was suspended. I got a warning for requesting, what you deem as too many, friendships. Thats what I dont understand. I join groups and have expanded my network of people who have common interest or are interesting. Why would you discourage that in a global society that wants to be connected? Facebook was born out of some desire of a few in comparison to the size now. Well, many people reach out to others and LOVE facebook and LOVE getting new friends. I thought that was what it was all about. Giving people what they want and holding NO boundaries. Control is why people grew tired of big companies. I understand nudity. I understand spam, threats etc. But simply reaching out to someone should NOT be controlled. What is wrong if i want to make contact with EVERYONE in the world? Is it taking too much server space of your or bandwidth if people do that? The world is flat now and wants to be connected and you guys gave the impression that you were for the people. I have met people from all over the world and I LOVE it. What is so different from me physically walking up to a person and starting a conversation. If they dont wanna talk to me they can ignore me. if they do then GREAT. THAT is how Facebook SHOULD be. Groups of people or just individuals should be free to roam all over the world of FAcebook making friendships if they choose. Some people dont. They stick to their close circle of friends and thats it. This is a land of the FREE isnt it? YOu guys are operating like a virtual COmmunist country governing how many friends you can have and how many people you can meet at one time. You says it is annoying to get a request but WHO says that? And how many people complain?? Thats life isnt it? ANYONE has the right to walk up to you and say hi and try to get to know you. You can either do so or ignore them. And Facebook has that option to IGNORE doesnt it? I have yet to hear from anyone I know that gets a lot of requests and it is annoying to them. Perhaps that what you guys think or feel because you are anal and not outgoing and sociable? I dont know. But you are behaving like a virtual COmmunist government and not like a Democracy. You have a world of subscribers who have lives on FAcebook and love ones there and friend, workmates, lovers and acquaintances. It will only be a matter of time when another social networking site arises and doesnt not behave like communists. and people will follow their will and desires.
I absolutely LOVE FAcebook because I have become connected with people the world over and I want to keep meeting more.
I ask that you please reconsider your control on this freedom and restore my account.
Thank you very very much for listening.
My Friend A/C has been blocked from yesterday..and his a/c address is gaire_hari@hotmail.
plz give some suggestion for its opening. hope to hear from u soon!!!
that in future i will not abuse
At least you received some sort of conversation from Face Book for the disabling of you're account, I was on Face Book for several months and got involved with a game called "Vampire Wars" that FB hosts, I run a group and admin for about 5 others, and all of a sudden my account was disabled with NO explanation.
All that they offered was a link to a FAQ saying that I was probably in violation of T.O.S and NEVER received any sort of formal notice of why my account was disabled.
Now that I had hundreds maybe thousands of people fluttering to help get my account back, they give me a message saying that they require a copy of my Texas Identification / Drivers License before they will even talk to me, they state that this will prove ownership of the account.
I have thousands of friends on Face Book & the game "Vampire Wars", people have started a group to get my account re-instated also a petition to help back it up, but Face Book will not even recognize either.
If they had given me a legitimate reason for my account being disabled I would have been happy to correct any issue that caused the disabling of my account.
I find all this strange as I have always been a supporter of Face Book and the T.O.S they have, heck man, I am a Christian Minister and have the respect of many people on Face Book as a helping hand and someone that has spent countless hours talking to people that were having issues with FB & the game we all play, it appears that this do-sent matter to them at all.
I have remained in contact with many of the Face Book friends (the ones that I can) and they are NOT happy campers.
I am known as "The Forsaken Prince" on Face Book and run the groups "Vampire Friends Network" & "Order of the Forsaken Prince".
At least you received some sort of conversation from Face Book for the disabling of you're account, I was on Face Book for
several months and got involved with a game called "Vampire Wars" that FB hosts, I run a group and admin for about 5
others, and all of a sudden my account was disabled with NO explanation.
All that they offered was a link to a FAQ saying that I was probably in violation of T.O.S and NEVER received any sort of
formal notice of why my account was disabled.
Now that I had hundreds maybe thousands of people fluttering to help get my account back, they give me a message saying
that they require a copy of my Texas Identification / Drivers License before they will even talk to me, they state that
this will prove ownership of the account.
I have thousands of friends on Face Book & the game "Vampire Wars", people have started a group to get my account
re-instated also a petition to help back it up, but Face Book will not even recognize either.
If they had given me a legitimate reason for my account being disabled I would have been happy to correct any issue that
caused the disabling of my account.
I find all this strange as I have always been a supporter of Face Book and the T.O.S they have, heck man, I am a Christian
Minister and have the respect of many people on Face Book as a helping hand and someone that has spent countless hours
talking to people that were having issues with FB & the game we all play, it appears that this do-sent matter to them at
all.
I have remained in contact with many of the Face Book friends (the ones that I can) and they are NOT happy campers.
I am known as "The Forsaken Prince" on Face Book and run the groups "Vampire Friends Network" & "Order of the Forsaken
Prince".
I made a big mistake. i wanted to my friends say something about me and i forgot to change the message. so you deleted my account.
i am very very sorry because of it. Can you active my account again please? help me and enabled my facebook profile its more important in my profil is my family...so i really need enable my old profile...i never gonna swear at my friends again...
I made a big mistake. i wanted to my friends say something about me and i forgot to change the message. so you deleted my account.
i am very very sorry because of it. Can you active my account again please? help me and enabled my facebook profile its more important in my profil is my family...so i really need enable my old profile...i never gonna swear at my friends again...
regards,
Tariq Eagle