Facebook disabled my account

If you are trying to contact me on Facebook, please don’t. My account has been “disabled” for breaking Facebook’s Terms of Use. I was running a script that got them to keep me from accessing my account. I’m appealing. I’ll tell you what I was doing as soon as I talk with the developers who built what I was using and as soon as I talk with Facebook’s support (I sent an email in reply to the one below, but haven’t heard back yet).

I run this stuff so you don’t have to. :-)

UPDATE: Rodney Rumford, who runs the FaceReviews Blog about Facebook says that all traces of me have been already removed from Facebook too.

UPDATE2: Tonight I learned about DataPortability.org and signed my name to that effort.

UPDATE3: I was only kicked off for about a day, they added my account back after I made a public stink about it here.

I am working with a company to move my social graph to other places and that isn’t allowable under Facebook’s terms of service. Here’s the email I received:

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Hello,

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

  • sinos

    Dear mister Facebook
    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. =(

  • ah_meedo

    hi, may I get back last facebook account

  • jeamparcher

    how to enable my acount again?

  • ah_meedo

    pls, make my account enable

  • http://acousticfilmworks.com/ amir

    Joe Shapiro, is a scam artist who stole hundreds of hours of code from me as well as other people.

    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.

  • ashleybogarin

    facebook banned my game texas hold em poker

  • saeedu

    My account was disabled yesterday without ANY REASON!! My Email address is saeed1919@hotmail.com please reply me soon

  • kayerich

    i changed accounts and trying to get a new one with live.com my mom took over the old one what can i do so i can do facebook again?

  • regcounsell

    why have ibeen taken off facebook? reg counsell

  • jodistalter

    This is appealing! My account is also disabled. I can't log on! I e-mailed facebook was well, and this is what they replied back to me..

    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?!

  • FacebookareCommunist

    WHAT I WROTE FACEBOOK:

    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.

  • hira babu pradhan

    Face Book Customer Support!!
    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!!!

  • http://www.adulttoyroom.com Adult Toys

    I agree. It's one thing if someone is compromising FB's security, but it's almost like a little leeway should have been considered.

  • http://twitter.com/thejonwest Jon West

    I recently got “disabled” because of a Greasemonkey script that tells you when people defriend you that I found on Mashable. I've appealed but haven't heard back for 2 weeks. It's ridiculous how they treat their loyal users.

  • Denon Weaver

    I need to deactivate my 13 yr old daughter’s account to facebook ASAP.

  • Denon Weaver

    I need to deactivate my 13 yr old daughter’s account to facebook ASAP.

  • muhammadyawarkhan

    my facebook account is disabble pls help me

  • jennehpokemon

    FACEBOOK DISABLED ME TOO FOR NO FREAKIN REASON UGGGG I HAVE TO PLAY PET SOCITEY!!!!

  • leannecrickley

    I have recently been disabled off fb.i only had 1 warning that said i was threatning and then they disabled me :( , and i havnt even done anything wrong tho, i sent them a msg and they havnt replied it has bin 3 days now and if they dont do sumet about it im going to my local papers

  • Imsomad

    So facebook has disabled my account based on the fact that i was in my high schools network and i guess they discovered that i have been out of high school because i am also in my college's network so they disabled me. Apparent they said i have to attend the school, whose network i am in but i could have sworn i joined because i am alumni!

  • Mary

    I got disabled and i’m just a regular person who had a lot of people want to be my friend because of the business i’m in – apparently being too popular makes facebook a place i’m not welcome.. hmpf .. then what’s the point of facebook really? Seems to me like facebook doesn’t want to be facebook any more .. maybe they should just disable themselves and save us regular people the time and effort of it all

  • katyathomas

    yes im trying to login in my account on facebook but its saying sorry your account is unavaible, due to site maintance, it should be avaible within a few hours, it still hasnt let me in. ive waited 2hrs.

  • http://www.effled.com/ super bright led

    Hey ,dude, They just ban me too.FB sucks

  • andrew mcfarlane

    account suspension

  • andrew mcfarlane

    sorry my account is no longer up and running

  • karengriffiths

    i need help with my facebook account. i can't login and don't know why. i keep getting a message that says my account is currently unavailable due to site maintenance. have i been blocked for some reason. can anyone help me to sort it out. thanks.

  • master x

    Robert , hi … i know that this post is about a year ago , but i want to know : is your facebook account came back to you ? please replay .

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  • bettaiebkarim

    hi from me ok i agree to the terms

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  • theforsakenprince

    Greetings everyone,

    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”.

  • theforsakenprince

    Greetings everyone,

    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”.

  • theforsakenprince

    Morning Robert,

    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.

  • hilai

    my account has been disabled too , and i haven’t done anything =C

  • Sam

    my account was disabled for add too many friends too fast how do i get my account back?

  • ravindusulakshane

    Hello Madam / Sir,

    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…

  • ravindusulakshane

    Hello Madam / Sir,

    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…

  • tabdulsamad1

    my account has been disabled without any reason. i did not do anything wrong and i have not violated Facebook. rather, i reported for other person who was sending me bad words. if i have violated Facebook then why i have not receive any warning? anybody plz help me. my email id is- nofear_eagles@hotmail.com

    regards,
    Tariq Eagle

  • Cora

    Class action lawsuit against facebook for disabled accounts? http://gsfn.us/t/gtu8

  • tabdulsamad1

    my account has been disabled without any reason. i did not do anything wrong and i have not violated Facebook. rather, i reported for other person who was sending me bad words. if i have violated Facebook then why i have not receive any warning? anybody plz help me. my email id is- nofear_eagles@hotmail.com

    regards,
    Tariq Eagle