My Facebook Account is Deactivated Update 2019

To say that Facebook plays a large part in my life is a little bit of an exaggeration-- as I make certain it is for any other social media sites manager. Not only do I use it to communicate with friends and family-- but I'm forever including content to one of the many web pages I admin, whether for myself or for customers.

My Facebook Account Is Deactivated

Envision my shock when I tried to sign right into Facebook one early morning only to receive the adhering to message:

My account was disabled? What does that even mean?

I tried to visit with another internet browser and I obtained the same message. Facebook impaired my account!

Facebook provided a kind entry web page for those wishing to contact Facebook regarding their disabled account, as well as I emailed them essentially asking why my account was handicapped and how I can obtain access back to the various web pages I'm an admin for. I discussed that I manage a variety of web pages for customers, and was always mindful regarding the content I published-- after all, my parents get on Facebook too.

After sending the email to Facebook, I sent out an email to the friends that's email addresses I in fact had and also described what happened. Thanks to the connect-ability of Facebook, a lot of my friends were just able to be gotten in touch with by me on Facebook.

The replies I received from that e-mail were categorized right into three various categories:

- WTF/WTH-- why would they do that ??
- Is it since you uploaded political things (I like Ron Paul as well as shared content concerning #OWS).
- Maybe someone flagged you.

I check out several of the posts by others that have had their accounts impaired to discover why my own was suddenly pulled-- without cautioning I ought to include. The publishing dates on the articles cover the life time of Facebook, revealing that the business has for life gotten on a behind the curtain project of disabling accounts at their discretion.

I located some short articles by well-known bloggers or journalists, consisting of Roger Ebert, Robert Scoble, as well as Stan Shroeder (Mashable). Most of these high-profiled Facebook individuals had their profiles and/or web pages reabled right after Facebook uncovered who they disabled. For the rest of us, we're basically on our very own.

Reviewing these articles really did not infuse much hope in me or my situation. The realization of what I lost was beginning to embed in also.

Throughout the years I had computer systems crash, stolen, lost, etc. and also rely upon Facebook to organize all my traveling as well as event photos. The internet site isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so why not upload all my images on Facebook for my friends and also family to watch at their discretion? There were more than 2000 photos, plenty of videos, article (notes), plus all the calls (I still have not had the ability to reconnect with numerous that were all shed when Facebook impaired my account). This was seeming a really bleak circumstance as I better recognized just what was shed.

I had to reclaim access to Facebook to manage the web pages for my clients, as well as likewise for my own ventures. Much of my web pages' admin accessibility were shown a companion as well as were easily set back up with the brand-new Facebook account I begrudgingly developed, cursing Facebook under my breath as I set up the new account.

Several of the Facebook pages admin accessibility were shown my customers, whom I needed to contact to have them re-add me with my brand-new account. Every one of them asked "Why did your account obtain disabled?" and truly so. I, also, would certainly question the person I paid to handle my Facebook page why their Facebook account was impaired. Wouldn't you?

I still do not have an answer to that concern. "I have no idea" is the response I still give, due to the fact that its true. Facebook has still yet to offer me a reason my account was handicapped. After checking out the reasons Facebook disabled accounts on their web page I was still at night. I really did not spam-add individuals, blog post sex-related content, pester anybody. so why they erased me didn't make good sense. Just after I check out various other posts did I comprehend a bit more.

Facebook can disable your account if your screen name is different than that on your birth certificate. Mine was, however not by much. It was still phonetically the exact same, but led to various than the remainder of my family members. I likewise had a client who lately used a competition promo to boost their email list. According to Facebook advertising standards, competitions can only be worked on Facebook through one of two applications: ShortStack and WildFire. Could that be why my account was disabled? I examined that client's Facebook web page and also it was gone too. Aha!

Although the competition wasn't specifically held on Facebook (it was hosted on the customer's internet site), and also the victor was notified using e-mail (you can not introduce champions on your wall), I was confident this was the offending action which had me ushered off Facebook without even a 'Adieu'.

Now it was about a week considering that I originally wrote Facebook that fateful morning, as well as I still hadn't gotten a reply. I revisited the web page permitting me to get in touch with Facebook, and also clarified that I now had a better suggestion about why they disabled me, which I was sorry. I swore never to do something like that again (was it actually that poor??) if they just reable my account.

I sent out that off and waited once more. After a few even more days I understood something. something extremely vital-- I created a filter in gmail for Facebook emails. Even if they did email me, I would certainly have never ever received the email because it was set to "Avoid Inbox/Delete". Harsh.

So I sent one more email to Facebook, this moment letting them know that I had a filter on my gmail and if they did contact me before this e-mail, I would have never gotten it.

A few days later on I ultimately got an email from Javier at Facebook. Here's the only response I'll likely receive from Facebook:.

Hi,

Unfortunately, your account has been permanently disabled for violating Facebook’s Terms. We will not reactivate it for any reason.

This will be our last email regarding your account. For more information about our policies, please read the Facebook Community Standards: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/

Thanks,

Javier
User Operations
Facebook

What a juvenile action-- certain Facebook is a 'young' company, yet I'm sure there should be somebody there with better tact than 'we're not mosting likely to reable your account-- don't email us again.' OKAY Facebook.

So what did I learn from my experience with Facebook?

1. Back up your account! You never ever recognize if/when they'll choose to delete you.
2. Do not handle your various customer's pages with the same account. If one page/account obtains deleted, you will not lose them all.
3. A lot of my friends are snobs who's profiles are either hidden from search, or they disabled the "Add as a buddy" switch making it difficult to re-add them.

Its been about a month since I had my account impaired, as well as had great deals of time to review the experience. I haven't tried to get in touch with Facebook straight considering that I obtained the e-mail from Javier, yet I did begin the site www.facebook-disabled-my-account.org, and the hashtag campaign on Twitter #FBdisabledMe to accentuate the unfavorable experience.

Do I want Facebook to alter their disabling plan? Nope.

I handle a couple of MU websites and also if you desire someone off your website, by all means delete them/block them/whatever. But for Facebook to disable the account and to maintain the data/photos/videos/ connections/blog articles, that is wrong. What would certainly Facebook be if no one uploaded content onto the site-- No pictures to share or tag-- No short articles to Like-- No condition updates to LOL at-- It would be NOTHING.

Facebook needs to enable those who they disabled to download their account, letting them retrieve their photos/videos/notes/ etc., before going off to the barren marshes of Google+, or to RT their good friends standing updates (as opposed to 'Suching as' it). Facebook currently makes it feasible for an active account to be downloaded and install, so why not an impaired account?

It's time for Facebook to get a bit elder in this area-- particularly with their IPO revealed. I'm actually considering buying stock so they will need to pay attention to my complaint-- at the minimum I'll benefit from them.

Have you had your Facebook account handicapped? Did you get it back, and also if so just how?

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