Facebook disabled my account

Not having you, is their lost.

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.

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@Robert : you've been disabled, not terminated, which is the good news. Seriously speaking, IMHO here Facebook is just preventing data theft (you've got an automated message from a robot).

HI,I JUST WANNA SAY THAT SOMEONE ON FACEBOOK SENT ME A MESSEGE,I CLICKED ON IT & NOW I CAN'T GET ON FACEBOOK ANYMORE.THE FACEBOOK HOME PAGE WON'T EVEN STAY OPEN LONG ENOUGH FOR ME TO PUT IN MY PASSWORD...THAT'S CRAZY!!!

you clicked on a link that allowed a bot to get into your facebook. it is always logged on and is data collecting from your friends pages. please dont use all caps. its really annoying.

Robert - what company/script were you running? I hope they are donating their work to the GraphSync project?

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.

Yes this is one of the reasons FB annoys me, it is MY social graph, my time and energy, I want to export it.

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.

Chris Saad: I'll reveal all soon but I'm under NDA for the tool I was using.

That's the fun of working with new technology and pushing the edge someone always has to be the first to get their fingers wrapped. :)

Hope they get you back on. It's a hard one this, deciding who owns the data. Technically your friends own their data, but on the other hand they've trusted you to have it. The only reason Facebook don't have an export function is probably a competition/lock-in thing. Maybe they're also worried about denial-of-service as a result of people running scripts?

Heck, even Gmail has an open API for getting contacts from it (though it's not working on Twitter at the moment :( ).

@NeilBarnwell - It's not hard at all, *you* own your own social graph. It's not so much the people or even data about them that makes it special its the relationship between them thats special, and again, yours.

Ashley: not if you're on Facebook.

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Justread43foldersandthearticleaboutlettinggoofsomeofyourSocialMedia.
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You've got a track record now Robert. First it was Second Life, now this. Is there any company whose terms of service you won't break? :-)

Roo: no. That's part of my job to see how good their terms of service are, and how well enforced they are. Also, to point out when terms of service suck. In Facebook's case its competitors don't have the same stupid TOS and let you take your social graph with you wherever you want. In fact, its competitors don't have a lame technical limitation which limits me to 5,000 friends either. But that's another topic.

Sounds like a bit of feedback to the developers of the software to insert some timing delay's into the loop.

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

Chris Saad: I will definitely lobby for DataPortability.org.

This is the classic Web 2.0 conundrum: users give their information for free to a service, which then monetizes that information, keeping all of the money for itself.

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.

So what ?
Facebook sucks anyway.

Ian: speaking of which. Facebook used my face in a Saturn/General Motors advertisement and didn't pay me. So I don't feel too guilty. Here's a picture of that: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviddalka/2106024...

i bet this has something to do with jan 16 :-P

Allen: nope, actually just a coincidence.

cool. a tool that can automatically cause facebook admins to remove all traces of you would sell like hotcakes. Where do i sign up?

now if only i could erase my digital footprint from google as well. :)

This is interesting for sure Robert. Poof! You have never existed on facebook. You are missing from groups, top friends,etc... still looking to see if all your wall posts disappeared 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...

you say that Robert but I am watching you right now on Qik, Skype and Ustream live so I know what's up.

Allen: well, let's meet on the 16th. The two things aren't connected. Or, maybe they should be? Hmmm, I gotta get some sleep.

Welcome to the dataportability.org team Robert :) Here's a welcome post and summary of where we are now...

http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability/...

im just fooling with ya :)

Wow, you really are coming to the end of an era. Changes all around...

you should be on cnn as amit portrayed you..

At least you got a mail with "Please reply to this email with a description of your recent activity on Facebook"

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.

Tony: that sucks. Did you blog about that anywhere? You should have.

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.

Data freedom is a must one. Facbook, If you don't allow export/import, I don't know how long you can trap user data...

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

Robert:

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. :-)

Jeff: that'd be funny. Maybe in the morning depending on what happens when I get up.

Robert, I've open a FB group for the re-openning of your account.
Hope they don't disable mine ;)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19628302696

Darn , And I thought it was just Podtech you were quitting !

loudmouthman: it's the season to quit things and move to new social networks! :-)

It seems they are cool with a human being going through his own information on their site. So it appears the trick to running a script to scrape such a site is to run it with pauses so it looks like a human being.

All very interesting. Facebook have a lot to prove in 2008. Its advertising system - you know, the one where they promised the "once every hundred years, media changes" thing - is showing signs that it might be broken from a commercial perspective.

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...

Quite ridiculous if you ask me. You have given Facebook more coverage than they could have asked for.

buzz.

Your facebook social graph is no more "yours" than your telephone number is "yours", etc. (Of course, that's one of the points about social networking in the first place, isn't it -- it's all social.) Check out Anne Wells Branscomb's, "Who owns information" (Basic Books, 1994).

So I am curious as to why you even bother? I left FB after the Beacon gaffe and I don't miss it. I think the strongest statement you can make is to just disable your account and stop talking about them entirely.

Robert,

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

Robert, I hope you really do move to another social network platform. I only looked at Facebook after you started bloging about it. You gave them free publicity and an opportunity to enhance the user's experience with your feedback. It will be interesting to see how this saga ends.
PS I have already changed my social network from Facebook.

Robert,

Shouldn't the Facebook mat be facing the other way with you 'leaving' the building? ;-)

Facebook told me I had been doing something similar, and mentioned legal action against me when I questioned them - actually I had done nothing at all. Paranoid or what. Don't give them your data.

It's virtualy impossible to care. If you dont like the T&Cs go elsewhere. Simple.

I was banned off facebook for "high levels of activity". wtf!!

I'm coining a new term: Scobled

As in "you've been scobled dude": terminated, waxed, disabled, vaporized, eliminated, banned abruptly and without warning.

@Neil Barnwell: If I'm memory serves me right then in the early days of Facebook a facility was built into Facebook to allow the exporting of your friends' contact information. This was subsequently removed.

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?

But what of the people who join Facebook BECAUSE it's such a walled garden? Yes, we all have some issue with Beacon - but the reason we have an issue with the Beacons of the world is because we fundementally DON'T want someone wholeheartedly using our graphs.

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?

Although I've read (and blogged) about FB's TOS, I still think that we own our words until we sell them (like writing for a company that pays you for your work). As the exchange on FB is having a free platform to connect and post but not actual payment for your words, I'm not sure there's true equity there. But that's just my opinion.

db: what about info you've made public? Like, your name? And other stuff that's on your public profile on Facebook? Are you saying that no one has the right to use that?

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?

I'm getting more then a bit tired of people who willingly and knowingly enter a walled garden and then complain about the walls when they run into them.

You would think that more then a decade after the Internet defeated the walled gardens of AOL, Compuserve e.a. people should know better.

Netvibes Ginger, perhaps? Heard they've got a TOS-breaking import tool...

...or DataPortability. That works too :)

What was the information your application was after? You're asking people to 'give an opinion' on this, I'm assuming you are, but you're not saying what kind of information you were scraping.

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'.

Shelley: do I have to ask your permission to copy down an email from Facebook and write it into my little addressbook? Really? Wow.

You did violate the ToS (which is bad) but you had to in order to get at your graph which facebook won't share (which is worse.) I hope the debate catches fire, thanks for leading the way.

Robert, this is wonderful. You have become a human sacrifice for data portability and exposed something everyone has been talking AROUND. Your friends Marc Canter and Dave Winer will probably love and embrace you for this.

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.

Scroble:

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.

Robert -
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.

Sorry Robert but i think you deserve it. If you broke any law or policy of Facebook you should be treated equal to others.

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 :)

this is crap - you can give facebook your gmail username and password and they suck up your contact list. They are not playing fair and this will hurt them.

Hey Robert,
Thanks for posting a rebuttal to my blog post "Sorry Scoble: You don't own your friends." I've now rebutted your rebuttal. :)

I heard Robert was running a script to auto-add people to his band's friend list. Err.... :P

Here is an facebook app that can save your info

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.

hamilton: I tried that app. It doesn't work with 5,000 friends. Very few of the apps do cause the developers don't test them with people's accounts with thousands of members.

The more I read, the happier I am. http://norman.walsh.name/2007/11/27/facebook

Well of course they're not going to let you run an automated process to strip out their data - that's their value add.

Persona non grata or you could say they stole your face!

"Shelley: do I have to ask your permission to copy down an email from Facebook and write it into my little addressbook? Really? Wow"

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?

boy they really don't seem to want you to automate anything i guess.

sorry rob ,, I only have a 100 friends

good luck in your fight ,,,

and you were one of them ,, alas

Shelley: I don't treat my friends like that. Facebook already knows who my friends are. I was using my account to get access. I have that many friends because I don't mistreat them.

"Shelley: I don’t treat my friends like that. Facebook already knows who my friends are. I was using my account to get access. I have that many friends because I don’t mistreat them."

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.

@Robert,

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.

Robert,

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-...

There is an inconsistency here. While you seem willing to violate Terms of Service for online applications (this Facebook violation and a prior violation with Second Life), others seem willing to trust you with Non-disclosure Agreements. If you are on "auto-accept" when it comes to terms and conditions, why should anyone trust you?

You're in good company. Last month, an account I created for "Dummies Man" was pulled - I blogged about it on my site:

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!

fp: they shouldn't trust me. But breaking contracts has very real consequences. I had hundreds of hours of work in my Facebook account. That's a very real amount of money/time gone and a distribution channel gone for me.

If I break an NDA I'll ruin relationships, etc and possibly end up in court. Both of which cost me time/money/opportunity.

There is a silver lining. Now users know how to get their Facebook profile deleted. A pal of mine was trying to close his Facebook account, and he was told that it is not possible. They own the data. He told me there is no apparent way to kill your account and have all data removed. So now we know: Just run a script and get banned. :)

@Robert -

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.

I keep hoping that one of these bad moves by Facebook will be the beginning of the end. FB is like AOL all over again. Tear down the wall. Let my people go.

wow, so many comments so fast! This is starting to become a frequent thing from facebook...

@Logical Extremes

If only it was a prison, but many ran into the keep because they wanted the walls.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman was recently quoted in Wired saying, "It's simple. The individual owns the data."

Case in point, LinkedIn lets you download all your contacts in one fell swoop.

Disclosure: I work for LinkedIn.

@13: "That’s part of my job to see how good their terms of service are, and how well enforced they are."

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?

Plaxo lets you sync your contact data to your local system, plus it has a really cool 'newsfeed'-like tool called Pulse which (for contacts who enable it - it's opt-in) shows when they've posted a blog post or Flickr pic or Del.icio.us link or whatever. It's way better than Facebook's 'newsfeed' which is pretty much all useless info. And you choose what you share with your contacts, and you can filter it by designating which groups of contacts see what info and so on. It's pretty sweet.

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.)

Robert,

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.

Corporations need to realize that negative comments about them are now easily retrievable by consumers and others, including competitors. Using Facebook as an example, the Jon Swift story helped to ensure that I will never join Facebook ("Ontario Emperor" is not my birth name, so Facebook obviously doesn't want me). While there's obviously conversation regarding whether your actions were right or not, Facebook obviously didn't need this type of publicity.

Facebook kind of shot themselves in the foot with this didn't they!

Robert,

How do I get myself banned too? That would make my life a lot simpler.

Guy

Facebook is irrelevant. I've never gotten the whole thing. I much prefer Linkedin Network as a professional connection tool and information gathering mechanism. It really is a great site.

Eric

Your facebook social graph is no more “yours” than your telephone number is “yours”, etc.

Phone numbers, unlike Facebook social graphs, are actually portable.

And Web 2.0 proponents want us to trust companies with our data???????

No thanks.

I'll use Office at home and keep my data on my home PC.

Just think about how much time they just freed up for you!!! ;)

Be still my heart ! I stated a few months ago give a kid 200 million dollars he shall soil his diapers ! I also stated Facebook in the end will go the way of the EDSEL! I Face book generates ad revenue by increasing the amount of participants on the site ! Screwing with the Scobies of the world is adding the final paint job to the Edsel!
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 !

Well Robert, this is the reason I argued about openness in facebook platform in your early days of facebook evangelism (during one of your ustream sessions). I do know that you have come a long way from there and you are in support of open standards. I sincerely hope that you use your clout among your followers to educate them about open standards in all areas of technology and how openness is the only way to empower the users and avoid Microsoft kinda monopoly.

Really, Facebook lost their best evangelist with this move. Their loss.

Join my Facebook group if you don't need to join a Facebook group to tell the world how you really feel.

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...

This is outrageous. You were instrumental in helping me get my Facebook account back, which I will never forget. Facebook seems to have hired a Bizarro World publicist who is advising them to do everything possible to get bad publicity for the company, a unique strategy indeed. I have invited my friends to join Mr. Nouÿrit's group to get your account back and I hope everyone who reads this will join it: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19628302696

"How is Facebook to know friend from foe?"

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.

i don't know much about facebook..nor have i used it.going by your words it sounds weird.

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, Robert time to take your army else where. Like Ning.com :)

http://www.mahalo.com/Scoble_Blocked_on_Facebook

@scoble

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

This is unbelievable. I would love to habe you back on facebook as my friuend if you ever feel the need to return.

I'm creating a social network of open source with a team of developers, and one of our ideas is the portability of your personal data. Because you have to take control of the social network.
I have written in my blog project about your problem and my solution is OpenSocialNetwork http://www.opensocialnetwork.es/

Ian: speaking of which. Facebook used my face in a Saturn/General Motors advertisement and didn’t pay me. So I don’t feel too guilty. Here’s a picture of that: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviddalka/2106024...

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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?

Man, screw Facebook!! #171 is right - take your army of followers somewhere else.

When I first joined facebook, before the 'rush' I was leery of yet another site wanting a ton of information I didn't believe they needed. What the got from me was name, email, birthdate, and the minimum of info required to sign up. That's it. No importing contacts, no personal info. I didn't even add any friends - just used it to allow me to click on other peoples' FB accounts whenever I'd get the "I've got a FB!" emails.
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.

So if you had simply run the script with a random delay of approx 10 seconds between page accesses, you would have got all of the data - it just would have taken longer (around 14 hours for 5000 contacts).

Facebook is going berzerk

Wow, what an awful story. That is what is so troubling about Web 2.0 - the awful centralization of power, and the inevitable abuse of that power. The irony is that we netizens don't need it and we never did.

How will Facebook know what your intentions are unless you explain it to them.
Then it's up to them as to judge your credibility

Robert, I support you in your dealings with Facebook, especially after all the positive PR you've given them. Your situation is a *beacon* (pun intended) for all of us, and it's good to find out about dataportability.org. In addition to the data portability issue and their 5000 friends limit, the annoying FB apps that require you to spam your friends in order to add them, and their limit on no. of groups you can join, it took Facebook customer service staff a week to reply to me recently when my profile would not load. There are other people with the same problem who are still waiting for a response. When I got one, it was two sentences telling me what I already knew, that my profile wasn't working and they were fixing it—with no date by which I could expect it to be available to me, and no explanation. When it finally loaded again, FB had removed one or two of my apps.

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

You should share the scrip the more people using the scrip the least likely the will disable all the accounts.......

when you are finished whining/crying, I wrote a Note on how I got my Facebook account reinstated (it took me one week, it should take you one day):
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=667630...

And yes, I do accept PayPal!

When you're registering to facebook (or to any other service) you sign a contract (usually called 'terms and conditions'). If you do something which you shouldn't do according to this contract, the service provider (facebook here) will do what is necessary (disable your account here).

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.

There's a certain irony here that this all happened as a result of trying to get the information into Plaxo. I'm currently working with a group who are trying to get contact data out of Plaxo.

You're complaining? Don't be a jackass and stop writing scripts that run up the bandwidth on someone else's server. Loser.

You are a very bad man, and should be punished. With great power comes great resposibility. you should use your evil powers for good.

Don’t be a jackass and stop writing scripts that run up the bandwidth on someone else’s server.

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.

I think its a legitimate thing to lobby Facebook to open up their data. I think that its unfortunate that it appears that you're proud of violating the TOS. Watching Loren Feldman's video, I think you've really opened yourself up to an attack that probably isn't accurate but will leave many folks in doubt.

You sign an agreement when you join Facebook and you more than most should know what that means.

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;)

Let me introduce you to my friend proxies and captcha solvers to make accounts :) Funny how rather then being open someone like Facebook forces you to be shady. All the more reason to exploit if you ask me.

Robert: I am not sure if anyone suggested it already, but I saw recently in news that some other guy who is a billionaire got as many friends(5000?) as you do. I am certain he must be behind it because no doubt he wanted to stay the only one with 5000 friends and rule the FB space. I guess he probably bribed someone at FB and they erased you. Call FBI now.

Your secret friend, YA

Servers,Databases,Invisible Web,TOS's,Confusion and Chaos,.COM,.ORG,SSL,RSS,ASP,PHP,XHTML,Robots,.Internet
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.

so what solution to this matter? some user make thousand $ from facebook by running illegal action, after all they get caught.
15 billion pagesviews per month? wow that was a great great number.

I hate to be "that guy," but you were violating their ToS... what did you expect?!?

My God you are that bored!

This is funny! LOL. Sorry! Can't stop laughing.

"My FB Contacts is a free and easy way to export and backup the contact details of your friends on Facebook. Once exported you can then import your contacts in to your Gmail, Hotmail or Outlook account."

http://myfbcontacts.blogspot.com/

Social engeneering !! the 1st step to getting you "chippen"so yes ..GOGOGO all sign up for it ...then wonder about the pratices on these websites.
Who do you think is listening collecting and categorizing these social website
Please people start to use your brain !

How about just creating a new account?

Any luck resolving the issue? are u still knocking their door?

Just in case anyone is still reading this deep in. TOS are a contract, you need to abide by them whether you think they rock or not. Yes, it sucks, yes you've added value and they are making a profit off it. In any scenario where you are joining a network you add value, by getting a phone number you're joining a network and adding value - the value of a network is in its members. You've added value, your friends have added value, now you want to take that value out of the system. Game Over.

Dont worry.. actually its their loss leaving a valuable browser like u... better getof it and create a new one... and carry on...

AhahahahahahahahaHAHAHaAHAhAhAhaHaHaHAHAHAHAHAaaA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree. It's their loss.

Facebook is quite simply falling off.

www.zoknowstech.wordpress.com

Oh, the drama.

Don't worry. Few days ago, Google just close my adsense account. I have promoted many other kinds to make money online.

Scoble, I think you're being either disingenuous or at the very least, inconsistent, regarding what legal contracts you appear to be interested in adhering to.

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.

What I think is odd is that you can access all the information manually but you just can't screen scrape it to automatically build a detailed social graph.

There are various FB opt-in applications out there so until teh API opens up more this is the only way ... sigh.

You got kicked out, that's kind of sad. ;) They don't seem to like power users that want to do more with system than what it is designed to do. Mayby you put too much stress for their servers but still, automated account “disabling” and removing is kind of bad thing. Of course, without that kind of automation Facebook would be more full of automated bots that collect people's information for other databases...

Anyways, all good to you and your digital life.

Incredible!

that is something you could sell. Loads of people have big trouble leaving facebook.

face book sucks, anyway.
DOWN WITH FACEBOOK!!!

Facebook is a nightmare, I hate it with a passion.
It's the spawn of Satan blahhhhhhh

It isn't about Robert vs. Facebook. It's about Independence vs. Dependence:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1006009

Damn, I'd like a door mat like that to wipe my muddy boots on!

Facebook? More like Farcebook!

It's their loss, but I'm not sure I don't agree with the decision. I'm kind of a stickler for TOS.

I cannot believe Wordpress is giving you top billing about your complaint about being booted from Facebook for violating Facebook's terms of service. How utterly pathetic.

Robert, how do I get my hands on this script? I'd love to get my facebook account disabled.

This post seems to be all over the blogosphere, so I figured I'd check it out...

That bites, dude.

Facebook? What is this facebook you speak of?

Usenet is enough! Everything else is more of a waste of time.

been there done that... and I got little sympathy from people. The worst was that in my case they didn't even tell me what their issue was. I figured they didn't like my artwork or something... I always push the edges as well. It turned out it was that they didn't like my 6000 name email list. They are real sticklers about it. MySpace is a lot nicer with those issue. If you want to market... do it through MySpace and leave you facebook badge.

(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.

I applaud Robert for trying to take information off a slightly fascist little corral known as FaceBook shared with him freely by his own contacts ..The underpinning attempt to corral Users of the site by FB with all their strange offers of this and that and "poking" and god knows what else, partly conceals a constricting model struggling for viability in an environment which also partly favours freedom's street...You note, on freedom's street people can advertise around you and shout out their goods for sale and there is no doubt it happens everywhere but sharing information with you is your right of conversation. The digitalisation of this conversation information presents some problems if extracted from their storage but I cannot see any harm here...And frankly this corralling tendency and "branding" of people I hope gives way to people understanding that sticking to one spot is a recipe for exploitation and having your cowhide roped and branded ...

i disabled my facebook account ... because the site is lame and trivial

You don't own my data. Stay off facebook with your spy programs!

let's make a new website named "www.ihatefacebook.com" or "www.kickedpeoplefromfacebook.com" :)

Get real, people.

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...

All this comments as great as your post.
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.

Facebook == Microsoft
I know you are an ex-microsoft yourself.
here is my anger response for this:
http://evalinux.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/warnin...

Robert,
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

Would you like a tissue?

re: tony's comment (37), my sister got banned from facebook about 6 months ago for no stated reason. She emailed them continually but eventually gave up. Then suddenly, on Jan 3, her account was reinstated (she only discovered it when I emailed her to tell her she was back in my friends list).

Good luck with getting reinstated on FB!

I am with Facebook / Shelley and a few others on this - what you are doing may not have been wrong, but I want FB to protect me from potentially malicious actions, they stopped potentially malicious actions (it may not just have been your friends, but people with open profiles etc..).

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".

what is facebook?

Here we see facebook's respect to it's users,without users there will be no facebook,
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

Now that it is known that Mr. Scoble was giving other peoples' private information to Plaxco, how do all of you "supporters" feel now about his "rights"?

eh, duh!

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.

a friend of mine has asked me to help her with a facebook problem, she went away on holiday recently, ans when she returned her account had been disabled, without warning or apparent reason. she has most definatly not voilated any terms of use, thats why its odd. some questiones, that if ansewered will help alot.

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?

The picture reminds of the picture of George bush Sr. that Saddam Hussein put on the entrance to one of the Al-Rashid hotel.

http://www.lowculture.com/archives/images/busht...

It was replaced by a picture of Saddam Hussein after invasion.

How do you get your account back? I got banned and emailed Facebook and they refused to tell me what I did (I don't know) and refused to reinstate me.

please I wanna take back my account

i have been disabled because you guys could not find my network,i did'nt know that not finding my network would have been this serious,if i had known then i would hav jus joined a region network,can my account be enabled instantly please.i will ensure that i put a network that is listed.thank you guys

i've had this message from facbook

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

Facebook deleted me, because I'm an attractive male. I was using the "Are you interested" application that allows people to let me know if they are interested or attracted to me. When they click on me I'm alerted of their interest. There is a default message, with a link to the "Are you interested" application, that can be sent as a reply, and to say hello to the admirer. After putting this application up on my page, I had an overwhelming response, and replied to every person who had clicked on me. They DELETED ME FOR THIS. I didn't make this application, and if they don't want me using it, then why was it there? Why am I being penalized because people found me interesting? FREAKS.

wow...hm...well, at least you got out of it. i've been trying to since i logged in.. there is no way i can "destroy" my page and everything .?!..GOD IT'S SO frustrating!

What can you do these days? Listening to WebMaster Radio right now...

hey sorry i will use facebook right so can i have gfacebook bacj pleadse and thsankyou

heres my story man u seem smart well i tryed to sign up for facebook about 2 months ago and it didnt work i nvr really paid attention right then i tried it yesterday and acctually read it and it say tht my facebook has been disabled for abuse but ive NVR HAD FACEBOOK LMAO email me bak PLZZZ
zak-24@hotmail.com
thx

Man facebook sucks, they just disabled my account for trying to add my 1,000+ college directory as my friends. I had no intention of using this information for spamming purposes, but I just wanted them to be my friends so I could see the parties around town. Facebook has an option that will let you see all your friend' events. oh well.

Digg disabled my account after posting an article about some spam I received. The story was funny and harmless, I did not breach any rules. All my articles were about IT security, anyone could see.
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.

Wow! 282 Kbytes of worthless ramblings.

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".

A T-SHIRT FOR YOU ROBERT...

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hi hello my name is david and facebook disabeld my acount if it is possibel u help me i thank you verry much som one was playing w my acount please help emale me as fast as u can i am on face book day and night

Help! Facebook has disabled my account accusing me of using a fake name. They don't know that Nacho is the nickname for Ignacio!

i just want to ask that my account is disabled i want to get it back can you plp help me out in anyways the same account i have a lot of important stuff on that account

This is what you get for cheating, you should've been permantently banned altogether!

Hi!

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

My account was disabled, according to a facebook rep by the name of "C" because facebook has that discretion. So your account can be disabled simply because an employee feels like giving you grief.

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?

Dear Sir / Madam,
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

hi
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'm just an avid user who had his account diabled for no reason whatsoever...I'm extremely upset about it as I had fun playing he ' fluuf friends ' online application, and had invested alot of time and MONEY into it, only to havemy account disabled for no reason. Sending to many messages they claimed, yet I barely even sent any. Do you happen to havea contact # for them or a way in which I can converse with the admins who shut it down? Any help appreciated, I feel for your situation as well. Thanks...andrewmontgomerie2@hotmail.com

My brothers a computer guy..when we were kids he was 11 and programming stuff on the first apple computer remember that? Then me and my other brother would check to see if the games were done..Im not sure exactly what he was doing on that computer since it was just boring numbers //!@3#$ like that..but he made some wicked games on that thing.He married a computer girl and now they live happily ever after with their massive computer room..When he found out my mother was on facebook he got her to get off it right away..and i had a big lecture from my mom bout facebook and what he said..viruses..and stuff..yeh.. they deleted my account for no apparent reason and i was just on it for a day.but then i opened another with a differnt email address and closed one and reopened one because my family are facebook haters but my bro might of forgot what it was like as a kid to program whatever so these kids out of college program a thing and it becomes huge and corporate america wants a piece of the pie and these kids are rich and our data is stuck in thier machines wwhich i guess kinda rips its like if some kid came over to my house when we were young and put a joystick in front of the computer and my brother made a better game and then told the kid to get lost even though it was his joystick and then my bro raked in the dough from charging other kids to play the game..although its evil im still his sis and would enjoy the toys and publicity from it all especially at the age of five..I learnt alot from this page and i think im gonna call my bro for the final anaylsis..but then in the end my friens are all on facebook and so am i its easy to use..and im not sure i want to hear his answer since he is a facebook hater like all things though i believe facebook is just a trend alot of people are getting bored with it i give it a few more years and someones brother or sister is gonna come up with something bigger and better..i hope its my brother but if not i hope someone will develop a new game that all my friends will jump over to..facebook..yawn...their new applications and advertising are pretty boring too..of course this opinion is just coming from a computer techs little sis thats loves trying out new stuff that computer techs make its just hard when tech people fight over programs and stuff i hope this all blows over so we can have harmony in the interface world and just as when i was young my eyes will light up and ill get all excited over whatever someone develops Im bored someone please make something new so i can get off facebook im trapped in facebook and theres nothing new to go to come on allready make it snazzy and lots of wham and bigger and better and more improved with the options of wall garden and whatever else that thing was called till then ill be trapped in facebook waiting ..

DisabledDisabledDisabledDisabledDisabledDisabledDisabledDisabled

[[FACEBOOK UNION]]

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.

Honestly, facebook is extremely or unneccesarily paranoid. Whats the worst that could happen? I rather think its a cover, and they simply do not have the funds to handle the extra bandwidth. I can tell you all right now that Myspace is much better in this regard than facebook. And I will be telling everyone I know on facebook who already hasnt, to migrate on over to Myspace. This behavior is absolutely intolerable and the best way to get back at them is to take their users away!

plz my account was diabled plz able my account i need it.you disabled my account lately from the name of my high school and i promose tp put my real high school name

Hi!
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!

Hi folks!

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.

Hello My name is april scully and i am sorry for addding 2 many names at once please put me back on face book i am sorry

Facebook Should Give Warnings To All People And Not Just Some.

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.

My Account Is Now Diabled Forever Now, And They Said That This Dicision Is Final.

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.

"Sorry About That"

I Spelled The Word Disabled Wrong.

Pardon Me For Punctuation And Grammer Spelling Of Words.

That Was My Mistake.

Hi, my Facebook account also being disabled when I trying to add some friends yesterday, I think I am adding a friend at a normal rate but the system still prompts "Slow down or you will hit a block", it is happened once two days ago but when I trying to add friends again yesterday, same message prompted again and again....It never disappeared even I wait for one day and continued. And then my account was finally being disabled when I added friends yesterday....I guess that message may only lead to the function of "Add to friends" being temporarily disabled instead of my account. But now the account is disabled. If that message means account being blocked, so I surely would not add friends that fast. I never spam to the system and I am only a normal user. I think that message is quite ambiguous to the end users. It would be easily blocked in Facebook, I have no idea on when or will my account be recovered and also whether my friends will still remain exists or not. I am still waiting for their reply that being sent yesterday...I could do nothing now, below is my message to Facebook. Hoping that my account could be resumed ASAP...


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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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My account has been canceled and i use facebook for my company i send msjs to clients and take orders and put out orders .. if facebook does not reactivate my account me and my family will go bancrupt in a few days and i will be hit by tons of lawsuites...

Hi,

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

________________
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

Hi Robert, the same happened to me this afternoon.
Nuts !

http://rodrigo.typepad.com/english/2008/04/face...

how i can enable my account on facebook plz

Same happened to me too, my account has been disabled for 7 hours now!! is there a way you can get it back?

Somedays, I wish all my social media accounts would be disabled because they take too much time. This reminds me of the three blogspot blogs I had that Google terminated without explanation. Perhaps writers should take care when building someone else's site and spend more time on their own blogs.

sick of being owned? you may want to check out http://chi.mp -- launching soon. imagine owning your social graph on your very own domain. own. don't be owned.

/m

Facebook isn't the only one doing this!

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...

hi i was having a nice chat with one of my friends on facebook.com and all of the suden i got loged out and i couldnt log in ant they said my account is disable and no reson why now im not a wild guy who dos crazy suf i was just chatting niceley didnt bother anyone
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

please help me i have freinds that i chat with them every day that are waiting for me

dos any one know what u do in this case or a number who i can call let them talk to me why r they hiding

i have be disable from my facebook acount how do i get my acount HELP ASP

Yes this is one of the reasons FB annoys me, it is MY social graph, my time and energy, I want to export it. 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.

They disabled my account also! :(
I wasn't doing anything wrong...

hey...my face book account got disabled by an administrator for no reason....can any one pls help me.......i have put so much of time and money in it....pls help.....

Hi, I stumbled upon your problem when researching for a fictional book I am writing. I would love to know the scenario and outcome of all this!

facebook sucks. my account was disabled just for adding alot of friends. pathetic service. And by the way did i tell i got no response to email and i am waiting for 3 days ?

Facebook will NOT reinstate my account. Apparently the decision is final. I have replied to them as I need to gain access to my contacts list. Below is the message I received today....


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

Just gotta say that some of you people have horrible spelling and grammar. Unbelievable. You should be disabled from Facebook for your stupidity alone.

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i can't acess my orkut account

Alot of you are missing the point here!

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.

Hi, for sum reason my facebok account was automatically closed down and i don't know why! any clues?

I am suffering the same thing!

what is the email address that u used to ask FB why ur account had been disabled because the same thing has happened to me. Please help! x

Can anyone tell me a normal user on facebook that was disabled 20 seconds after login on what occurs next.....can't seem to contact anyone for a reason..........how long am I disbled for.

200 + friend generating revenue for FB and their loosing credability....all I ask is for an explanation..........Anthony_d@live.ca

Can anyone tell me a normal user on facebook that was disabled 20 seconds after login on what occurs next.....can't seem to contact anyone for a reason..........how long am I disbled for.

200 + friend generating revenue for FB and their loosing credability....all I ask is for an explanation.........

My account was disabled by FaecBook with out properly assigning any reason. All my details, contacts, emails, pictures and conversations gone with in no time, i requested, appealed but no way.

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

Hello,

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!

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Let me know what you think!

Thanks,

Terence Louw

my account has been deleted you because i use the limit messages
and i`m sorry for that soo... can i have my account back ??

Hello,

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

hi my name is anne i am having problom with facebook.tonight i had my account it was disable and temportiy suspensed on there for no reason and no warning, for adding friends from thi sgroup i joined they didn, ttell me anything.i am very sorry can i have my account back. anne freeman.anne-228-freeman@live.ca

they still haven't sent anything to me explaining why they did this to me.it was the admimstor who disable my account. i am so sorry i wan tmy account back on facebook. i need help also to fin eout what happen. they don't give you the email where you can send them and explain what happen, i was only on there for 15 mins then all of sudden they took me right out of facebook, because one of my friend ask me to join a group, and adding a couple of friends.they didn't give me back my pics ethier.i want answer from them and to give me another chance for something i didn't do wrong.

"they still haven’t sent anything to me explaining why they did this to me.it was the admimstor who disable my account. i am so sorry i wan tmy account back on facebook. i need help also to fin eout what happen. they don’t give you the email where you can send them and explain what happen, i was only on there for 15 mins then all of sudden they took me right out of facebook, because one of my friend ask me to join a group, and adding a couple of friends.they didn’t give me back my pics ethier.i want answer from them and to give me another chance for something i didn’t do wrong."

I think your at the wrong place to ask for tthis >!

Everything went blank in this blog!!! Hope it's just a glitch with this particular page....

hiii.. i want my account back plzzzzzz

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

TERENCE LOUW...

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.

Greetings my facebook account got disabled because they said i havent given them my real name witch i did my real name is sahshell valentine an thats the name i started up my account with but i changed it just 4 display name and i will love you 2 help me 2 get it back thank you .... sahshell valentine.....

Its a shame facebook disabled your account

Dears
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

You can't access your facebook as per new security policy. Please the new security policy.

Is was very interesting reading about your experience with facebook.

Dear Sir / Madam,
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

Dear Sir / Madam,
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

what i do to left limit on my mail on face book?

i need help ......................................!
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

hi, recently my facbook account has been disabled. i do not knw the reason for it, but i do spend a lot of time on facebook, but haven't done anything wrong, all i do is talk to friends, im very confused and would realy much like your help.
i've emailed them 3time but havent got a response.
please help

thanks

i have lost my gmail password, so no i cant get into my facebook as well, as i have also forgotten that password in the process. They say to you musn't sign up a new email address which i however did as it's the only way i can get some info on wether i can retrieve either of those passwords to my alternative address, so please help me, i am desperate

Thanks for your time
Gwen Hayward

File a complaint with the BBB. Facebook has an unsatisfactory record with the BBB. And keep spreading the word about their totalitarian policies. I've seen soft porn on their site and reported it and the soft porn is still there. I've also seen fake names and individuals using facebook to advertise their business on their profiles (both prohibited), but that material is still there. They disabled my account for no apparent reason and ignored my inquiries. I filed a complaint with BBB, so let's see what happens.

What kind of script did you use for beeing fired at facebook?

Your story helps me understand why my AIM-AOL imap e-mail account was closed. I drag-n-dropped a few thousand messages from another imap account into it via Thunderbird, and I suppose the rapidity of the uploads alerted its monitoring software to the the probability that I was running a script. Presto - the Aim account was terminated, and I can find no avenue for appeal. Now I have no AIM account. Pity!

well i just got banned, i have no idea why. i had just logged on then add 2 friends which were where is says people you may know on the home page and bam i got banned.

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.

Just got disaibled for sending 7 messages to others if they want to have a look at my art work on a facebook fansite. Ridiculous! This company really sucks and is deeply totalitarian.

i got banned form facebook for sewnding to many IM messages to my friends that's a little gay don't u think?

Facebook is Sh1t. MySpace is better..

I have been Facebook disabled for no good reason, and you know what, I think it's great. Read my blog. To hell with those users of user-generated content. Back to the pool of life.

Best,

Swimanog

hiii.. i want my account back please
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

Dear Sir / Madam,
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

Hi,

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.

My Facebook account got disabled about a week ago; same reason Sabastian above says. Lost contact with my old school and uni mates etc.

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.

Sorry moderation and understanding related to religion of any description. I was talking against extremist religions of any form.

Dear Sir / Madam,
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,

Message for Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook

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 have now had positive outcome from Facebook.

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.

hiii.. i want my account back please
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

Facebook sucks!! The disabled me for adding too many friends. How lame can you be? Facebook please define the definition of internet social networking??? I really hope your site fails and you make absoutely no profit running this site.

i know what you are saying yall i mean whaz poping son

i dont mean to come off syrong but i like get what you are saying all of you people.

I got disabled this morning for sending messages too fast. They considered it spam. Help bring me back! and join!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56963126139

thank you...

my facebook account was deactivated without warning what do i do to get it back can you help me please because they have failed to reply my messages or is they any1 i can call help me please. Garen

i got disable this morning for sending messages too fast. they considered it spam. help bring me back! and join!

why my account disable?
thank you

hi
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

Hi my facebook account is disabled and i dont know why and they dont wanna tell me why and i have send 3 e-mails to them so if any 1 know any there can hack into there computer and get my account up again it whould be great

My facebook account has been disabled , and I really don’t know why.
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.

It was after a day on 22/1/1009 that i logged ino facebook and found that my account has been disabled by an administrator. It has been a mistake that without any warning that could have prompted my usage pattern my account was disabled. Please help me in getting back my account as it is of great use to me and have created good friends there. My log in id is rajantulsyan@hotmail.com
Please help me. I am very tensed upon losing the account.
Regards,
Rajan Tulsyan

Ohh.
oo I am very sorry .. but you need to comply with the TOS

why my account mail address was disabled?
what can i do for back same address please help me

hey foocebook ownr why u disable my account again and again iam not using bad word in facebook members soo whats your problem"""""""
my facebook id is usman danger""

Facebook disabled my accouunt because i was sending to many friends requests!! they sent me a warning and I stopped sending these requests until the next day when i was sending my friend a message they automatically disabled my account!!! why is that?

My facebook page was mysteriously disabled without any warning - like others, I too, tried to log on and found out I was "disabled." I have done absolutely nothing to warrant this AND find there is NO recourse. I, too,
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...

Dear Sir / Madam,
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

Hi Robert, my account was disabled but for what i have no idea, one moment i was writing to my friend the next minute it was disabled. Can you help at all please? do you have any advice i find this really annoying. I had friends on their from college days in canada, im in the uk and no way of getting hold of them. I'm so annoyed and fed up.

My account was disabled on Facebook multiple times. I had posted too many news stories and they considered it spam. Then I tried to share something via a group in an email and they considered that spam so they disabled me. I discovered delicious so I haven't gotten into trouble since I did that.

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.

This is crazy! I think that the Internet will always come along with things like this. Paypal held a payment I was supposed to receive because they said the transaction was unauthorized. When I asked them what was suspicious about the payment, customer service said that they couldn't tell me... Hmmmm? But that's what we have to deal with until security strengthens, I guess.

Until the next post, much love, peace, and medicated hair grease.

- Thierry

This is crazy! I think that the Internet will always come along with things like this. Paypal held a payment I was supposed to receive because they said the transaction was unauthorized. When I asked them what was suspicious about the payment, customer service said that they couldn't tell me... Hmmmm? But that's what we have to deal with until security strengthens, I guess.

Until the next post, much love, peace, and medicated hair grease.

- Thierry

can help me to opoen my facebook

can help me to opoen my facebook

Yes, I was sending friend requests out and just like that my account was disabled. I had gotten a few warning awhile ago but non since, so I was surprised. Now I don't know what to do and if I'll ever get my old account back? That means all my friend and family out of state that I communicat through facebook are gone, just like that. I'm just wondering do you ever get you account back. Thanks Annas

Yes, I was sending friend requests out and just like that my account was disabled. I had gotten a few warning awhile ago but non since, so I was surprised. Now I don't know what to do and if I'll ever get my old account back? That means all my friend and family out of state that I communicat through facebook are gone, just like that. I'm just wondering do you ever get you account back. Thanks Annas

please check out my blog and join me in my efforts.
(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/

please check out my blog and join me in my efforts.
(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/

Query: medesconectaron to find so many friends, I did not think it was so serious and I never bothered nobody and nobody is the opposite of my aquedao; Please reconsiderenlo, my mind is old and I like FACE BOOK
MY ACCOUNT Barone Gustavo Vieira. MI CORREO. gustavovieira53@hotmail.com thanks

I added some people and i got my account disabled. Can you please reactivate it. I didn't violate any rule you can check my recordds.

hi, i am having problems deleting 1 of my accounts on facebook and im just wondering if you counld delete my (Scott Simpson) Account (Not) the Scott Thomas Simpson email is the same dsimpson_991@hotmail.com please contact me for any enquires

Many thanks Scott Thomas Simpson

dsimpson_991@hotmail.com

hello my account desable with no reason nothing legal with my profile and every thing in the rules and conditions so if you plz i want allot of help to bring back my account coz it have allot of my personal documents and picture that i want to tern it back thx and hope to understand me ..

Please Enabled My Account I Can't understand the Term of Use, I'm from Indonesia, if any mistake I'm sorry....

My account has been disabled too. I tried to log on this morning and that's all they told me! It's probably because I was adding too many people but this was only because it requires you to add them for certain applications. Ridiculous.

hi when your account get disabled you open other one all you need to to do is have an an email address there are people on facebook who have links to porn site they should be taken i have done nothing wrong people want me on facebook i cant get back on there

Hey guys please facebook disabled my account I WANT MY ACCOUNT BACKAND WANT ALL MY CONTACTS BACK THOSE ARE MY FRIENDS SINCE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY AND MY COLLEAGUES IN THE BANK Help me help me thanks

My account was also disabled today, the reason? i am still trying to find out. I really hope this is a mistake and not an act of any violation “Because i didn’t commit any” I am really terrified about this.

facebook is run by the biggest n rudest faggs in the world, n they don't give a bloody shit about their customers. sorry to say that my account was disabled twice without any reason, n the only way for them to learn their lesson is to be overcome by another new social networking website. let's just hope that happens. facebook is useful, but it doesn't help when these faggs arbitrarily disables u for fun n never respond to emails--if they do, it's the automated response, n their tone is extremely rude. like when they emailed me bak, if the biach was in front of me i woulda knocked every single one of his teeth out. no kidding.

Dear Sir.
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

my old that I have had for years now was dissabled and with the excuse "your account has not had enough activity" and offered the oportunity to open a new account....I did so and , when I went to recall allthe info, friens and 4 phot albums ALL WAS GONE!!
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!

I am actually going through a similar conflict except I had not received any kind of warning email. i'm still in high school and decided to make a script to graph my Facebook in 3D but i didn't think to read the terms of use before running it so my account get disabled. I sent two emails since saturday (5/30) apologizing and asking for my Facebook back but i still don't have a reply. Did you ever get your account enabled again?

My another account was disabled about 4-5 days ago... I dont know why ?? I just play mafia wars, texas hold'em poker and make contact with my friend....suddenly my account has been disabled.. I think there is a mistake at this...but if I'm doing anything wrong ...i'm so sorry.. i dont mean it. May i get my account reactive again so i can log in to facebook again ?? How long I can get respon from facebook ???
My last account is chat_chara@ yahoo.com, my name is Johannes Bosco Harmin.Thanks very much.

help me

My Facebook account has been disabled, anyone can help me...please help me to enable again my account.

same shit
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?

After having my account disabled by Facebook over a month ago and receiving nothing more as an explanation than a general copy of the Facebook TOS sent by someone named 'Jada' in User Operations citing no specific violation and reason for my account being disabled. Daily inquires to the plethora of @Facebook.com email aliases published online have resulted in no response from anyone at Facebook.

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!!

I just found a site regarding Facebook that suggested reporting this type thing to the Federal Trade Commission. There are thousands of Facebook users whose accounts are being unfairly blocked and/or disabled. Facebook boasts of how many users they have - they say they have 0ver 200 million worldwide, but I'm finding out there are thousands who are abused by this company. Facebook needs to reveal that figure to the public also. I did indeed file a complaint on-line with the FTC - it's very easy and they take you seriously. You are given a case number and also a phone number to call of check on your complaint if needed. When filing a complaint with them, make sure to have on hand the address and phone number (of which you cannot speak with a LIVE person) handy, as you will need it to file.......

Regarding the address and phone number: I was speaking of the address and phone number of FACEBOOK - sorry for any confusion.

Good on you Di. I'm going to friendfinder as well. FB should be ashamed of themselves. It gives you absolutely no faith in doing anything with FB again. In other words, don't put anything on there you don't want to lose. The emails are a killer! Some of those contacts I will not be able to contact any other way!

Hello every1...like i got my account disabled b/c i really don't kno, like i was reporting an impersonator that has been harassing my friends by sexually harassing girls & violently threatening guys, (which are my friends) & i made a group about it, & the group is a delete & block this person group, & i think the impersonator reported that & i even reported the impersonator...i don't kno what's been goin on, i've found the identity of the impersonator, b/c he was sucking up to me & used me up & i denied it all & i'm just wondering, why my account got disabled, i didn't violate the terms of use, i was just reporting an impersonator who was impersonating a friend of mine's & now it's just all messed up =_(

My facebook got disabled because i added too many friends because i play mafia wars.. please help me reactivate it...

I am trying to login to my fb account and I have no access. I'd like to fix this problem!

Yes this is one of the reasons FB annoys me, it is MY social graph, my time and energy, I want to export it.
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.

It's a hard one this, deciding who owns the data. Technically your friends own their data, but on the other hand they've trusted you to have it. Moda EviThe only reason Facebook don't have an export function is probably a competition/lock-in thing. Maybe they're also worried about denial-of-service as a result of people running scripts?

my account could be disable!, how to make my account to able again?

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.

the poker in facebook is not working.

My facebook has been disabled.
I have not got an email explaning why? I havn't done anything wrong :S
Is there any way i can enable my account?

My account was also disabled, for what reason I don't know. I barely use it. Maybe lack of use. Or I was hacked and didn't know it. Or just because they felt like it. Like most of you, I have sent numerous e-mails and received nothing back. Guess I'm done with FaceBook, I'm certainly not opening another account, or worse, waiting patiently for them to maybe open it again and wonder when it will be shut down again.

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.

Can you possibly help me? I am a Grandmother of four. Facebook has blocked me from posting - I haven't broken any rules that I know of - it's been 5 days and I can get no response form them. I am very sad and depressed, I cannot communicate with my oldest 18 year old granddaughter, and my church friends. I would SO appreciate anything you could do to help me. Thank you.

Ive been disabled for almost 3 weeks now. because i keep adding friends.. i was playing mafia wars! Does Facebook still plan to reactivate my account? I hope so.. Please help me

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We are behind you :)

THANK YOU, Ontario NBH!!! :)

The only thing I have used facebook for is to keep in touch with myfriends and granddaughter.

FB needs big help in the Customer Relations area. I only play Mafia Wars on it, and the game ENCOURAGES making friends and adding them to your Family. I did so, spammed nobody, only contacted friends of fellow Family Members, and NEVER recontacted anyone who did not respond.

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.

” Why my account disabled? Can I get back my account “.

i had a similar problem.Morning i posted on a friends post and when i try logging in the evening it says my account has been disbaled and i am still not notified of it.Any siggestions? the FAQ corner seems to be of no use.I tried contacting them at Disabled@facebook.com but no reply yet

I also emailed disabled@facebook.com. It was the only email I could find and I kept getting automated responses about my email account. Made no sense. What to do from here? Does anyone know??!!

ps. Maybe it was a sign that I spent too much time on FB!

Maybe people should allow people to access the disabled account for uploaded pictures and to retrieve pictures of they uploaded their own

That is not fair for anyone who's account being disable and not to get accessed to the pictures of they uploaded themselves either.

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

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Whoever is no longer on facebook gets to access their own photographs of their own uploads and get to delete pictures as optional

Hi
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

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

my face book has been deleted but i dont know how .will i be able to use the same acount if it will be fixed or should i open a new one but i havent got my picutres anymore and they are importan

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.

FACEBOOK DISABLED MY ACCOUNT because I was having too many "conversations" with my friends. We were all "talking" and laughing and having a good time. I can't see them in real life and facebook is my way to get together at my own pace without a stupid chat room or message board. I love facebook and I am so upset!

my face book has been deleted but i dont know how .will i be able to use the same acount if it will be fixed or should i open a new one but i havent got my picutres anymore and they are important

My facebook account was disabled, i'm sorry if i violated facebook rules, can i have my facebook account back? facebook is my life, i cant loose it, please give me a chance?

Somedays, I wish all my social media accounts would be disabled because they take too much time. This reminds me of the three blogspot blogs I had that Google terminated without explanation. Perhaps writers should take care when building someone else's site and spend more time on their own blogs.

but how to turn on my disabled account??

my uncle has been deleted from facebook...for no reason. trying to find an answer for this predicament.

HI,I JUST WANNA SAY THAT SOMEONE ON FACEBOOK SENT ME A MESSEGE,I CLICKED ON IT & NOW I CAN'T GET ON FACEBOOK ANYMORE.THE FACEBOOK HOME PAGE WON'T EVEN STAY OPEN LONG ENOUGH FOR ME TO PUT IN MY PASSWORD...THAT'S CRAZY!!!

want an account on face book

i dont know why they disabled my account. it was working befor but i loged off and i tryed to get back on and it didt let me. i was wondering why they disabled my account. they didt even warn me.

Hi I have only been on Facebook a short time at least in their dealing with me they made derogatory comments about my activities on Facebook spamming etc, but I wasn't spamming. Since they do not actually spell out in detail as far as I can see what are their terms of use, how could anyone know what their terms of use are. As far as I know, their terms of use could be that people who wear blue underwear are only allowed make ten posts a year and any more than that, results in an immediate ban but people who are married to attractive table lamps are allowed one thousand posts an hour. Frankly the way the way Facebook go about their activities is Fascist and Facebook induce the sort of brand loyalty that Hitler did for the German tourism industry amongst British visitors when he was bombing London. Anyway, they have banned me I don't know why, maybe I might have upset some people who were annoyed only less than four thousand people were murdered on 9/11 and were disappointed it could not have been a nuclear weapon.

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer

I totally agree Adrian. It sucks big time! And makes no sense. Problem is it's so hard to get through to them. Search their site to find their email and good luck! See you in 10 hours!

please help me reopen my facebook account.

Check out Uniblogg.com. They wont kick you off.

hey, rob.. i got this from facebook..

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!

how long does it takes to be disabled on my account?

Hi there

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

my accounts been disabled to and i dont know why!! how can i get an email like that who do i write to
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

I've also been suspended from Facebook (about 2-3 months ago) and can't seem to get back on. I keep getting automated replies that don't make sense. I'm pretty annoyed about it because I have alot of friends on FB who need to be informed about the 3rd annual Animal Action Day at Threeworlds, Gold Coast, on October 3, 2009. I started a group on there called Animal Action Day - Take Action for Animals- about raising awareness, appreciation and respect for all animals. This year funds raised are going to WSPA. If you want to know more, check www.aaxpose.com And if anyone knows how I can get back on FB, please email me at aldwyn@aaxpose.com Thanks :)

my akun not active....please help me......

Dear Facebook,
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

Why the facebook disabled my account? If disabled also should give reason ,what? I don't know why who can tell me?

How long did it take you to get a reply?

My profile has also been disabled three days ago and I have tried several times to contact them, but I have not received any reply. I think it is bad advertising for them to serve/help their customers like this!

My account is disabled,i don`t know why...Please activate my account DEMIR ECO in my facebook name...i love facebook and i can`t without it.!!!

Dear Sir / Madam,

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

my account has been disabled for no reasons..how can i get it back?.can you tell me how to send email to facebook so i can report my disabled acount?please response tnx

Once a person has been disabled for violating Terms of Service is there anyway to re-qualify for service after a certain length of time away or paying a minimal fine? I think the "life sentence" for such permanently disabled accounts is unreasonable and unfair.

Hii, My account has been disabled for few days... I dont mean to make an abuse/mistake, I just play mafia wars and make contact with my friend... maybe I add friends too fast to grow my mafia family...I'm so sorry for that. Please help me to fix this problem. please reactive my account again. My account is johannesboscoharmin@yahoo.com. Thanks for everything.

Facebook disabled my 450k fan tattoo page which i had from the very beginning. I put so much effort into this fanpage and many people loved it.

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

hi, my account has been disabled for no reason wutsoever... please help me i need to contact my aunttt .

my account was disabled for no reason at all. please tell me how to get back on. please!

Your situation was a little different than ours. But we also got deleted by FB. Their reason "too many friends with similar characteristics." Which is absurd.

huhuh some one hack my acount

some one angry on me

the i get disabled in facebook

pls help me pls!!!

Please reconsider to reactive my account again. Please give me one more chance. Why was my account disabled ???.. I dont do anything wrong... I just play mafia wars game and make contact to my friends on facebook, suddenly my account has been disabled ... WHY ???? I dont understand... I think this is a mistake...Maybe I add friends too fast to grow my mafia family but I don’t really mean to make an abusive / harass / annoying / mistake to everyone/ your rules. …I ‘m so sorry for that. Please help me to reactive my account again, so I can play and make contact with my friend again... please solve this problem to me. I dont mean to make violation to facebook terms of use or anything. I dont mean to make an abusive/annoying/harass to anyone too, It's just a part of mafia wars game for grow my mafia family. You can look into my account that there nothing matter to harm anybody. Will you accept my explanation and give me a mercy. Please give me one more chance to play it again. My account is johannesboscoharmin@yahoo.com. My user name is johannesboscoharmin. Thanks for your understanding....I hope that not need long time for fix it......please.

Facebook is so ridiulous! I just found a site where we can maybe organize ourselves and demand change - check out the boycott of Facebook I just started here - http://www.boycottowl.com/Facebook/1 . Join the boycott now! If enough of us do, maybe they will respond!!

my account facebook disabled

help

my account facebook disabled

help

can not open my facebook

I AM WRITING AS MY FB ACCT HAS BEEN DISABLED WITH N WARNING OR REASON, ANY SUGGESTIONS ??

i am sorry.i'll never violate face book terms and condtions again.

I didn't even get a reason why my account was disabled....they just unilaterally disabled it. I am DESPERATE to get it back! someone please help me! I have emailed them where they said to email, but they won't get back to me.

PLS HEPL ME...CAN ANYONE ENABLE MY ADRESS I REALLY NEED IT..PLS HELP..ME...MY ADRESS IS ferhati_mustafa@yahoo.com my name is mucos feri...my network place is albania,kruje...my birthday is..29/03/1989..plssssss help..thnx

Wow man, I cant imagine that my account will be disabled. I just cant.
Mike - the fat burning dude

hello facebook. My account has recently been disabled and I dont know for what reason. I know I didn't do anything wrong. But if you guys think I did i reallly really do apologize and will follow anything you guys say to get my account reactivated. please reactive my account please.

I have been disabled too. I have make some speak about web 2.0 and recomend many people joint to facebook. I have even appear in some magazines talking about facebook and social networks.
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.

You get baffled! I did. More so when (I think) I have not done any action that may be considered against Facebook TOS.

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?

I am Erik on facebook and i was trying to log in one day and they said my password was locked. guess what , they said that i was reported as being abusive by facebook users. i only talked to my friends. but they didnt take my old account on facebook

I think the email from disabled@facebook.com are not read by humans and the responses are automated as well. There are lots of variations of the same kinds of responses, but I think they create templates and try to make it seem as if humans are responding. However, there are lots of clues that humans are not involved in the process. It seems that facebook monitors everything about your interaction whenever you visit the site. If they don't like what the detect, they disable the account, usually don't warn the user, take their time responding (days), and arbitrarily seem to either activate the account again or disable it. Sometimes you get no response at all, but others say they received responses like this is the final decision, your account will never be activated again. Here are two emails I received from Facebook due to two incidents that led to automatic disabling of my account for no good reason at all. I think it had something to do with a firefox upgrade, quite possibly a browser add-on as the second email indicates.

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

Hello

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

my id is rohitmehragreat@gmail.com. y my fcebuk accnt is disabled

rohitmehragreat@gmail.com. pls temme y account has been disabled .. plz reactivte it as soon as possible

FACEBOOK AKA, “DISGRACEBOOK,” MASTERS OF INSIDIOUS OBFUSCATION

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.

how can i enable my facebook account?

I went camping this weekend and when I came back and tried to get into my facebook all aspects of my account have been disabled I do not understand why, my email is luvvvvie4u@yahoo.com could you please advise me as to what happened and why..today I set up a whole new account but am wondering how long it will last and if I can ever get any of my old information back

how can I save my ID in face book?Every time I connect it opens but when I open my ID i have to connect it again. This think happen to me every time

My account was also disabled. They told me I violated their agreement, but I'm just a 52 year old grandma that is only interested in communicating with my family and friends. Everything that I've done is related to that. I can't even imagine what I could have done that would be so bad. The problem is, they can communicate with me, but they've made darn sure that I can't communicate with them to try to find out what is going on and how to fix it. Any suggestions?

Disabled - Rate Limits by faecbook, what the rate limits means, any help please

my facebook has been disabled can you please reactivate my facebook tahnks

my you active my facebook account again. I made mistake about change my user name.
I so sorry and won't do again later.
Thank

may i get back my last facebook account.?

Dear mister Facebook
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. =(

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. =(

hi, may I get back last facebook account

how to enable my acount again?

pls, make my account enable

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.

facebook banned my game texas hold em poker

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

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?

why have ibeen taken off facebook? reg counsell

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?!

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.

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!!!

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.

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

my facebook account is disabble pls help me

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

account suspension

sorry my account is no longer up and running

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.

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 .

You should have.

hi from me ok i agree to the terms

teerible

i am sure that if u reactivated my facebook poker acount with my all chips 40,000
that in future i will not abuse

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".

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".

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

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

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...

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...

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

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