Facebook Account Disabled | Update 2019

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

Facebook Account Disabled

Visualize my shock when I tried to authorize right into Facebook one morning just to get the adhering to message:

My account was disabled? What does that even indicate?

I attempted to log in with one more web browser and also I obtained the exact same message. Facebook handicapped my account!

Facebook supplied a form submission page for those wanting to contact Facebook about their impaired account, as well as I emailed them essentially asking why my account was impaired and also how I can obtain accessibility back to the many web pages I'm an admin for. I described that I manage a range of web pages for clients, as well as was constantly mindful concerning the web content I published-- after all, my parents get on Facebook also.

After sending the e-mail to Facebook, I sent out an e-mail to the friends that's e-mail addresses I really had and discussed what occurred. Thanks to the connect-ability of Facebook, most of my friends were just able to be called by me on Facebook.

The replies I received from that email were categorized right into 3 different categories:

- WTF/WTH-- why would certainly they do that ??
- Is it since you posted political stuff (I like Ron Paul and common content regarding #OWS).
- Perhaps somebody flagged you.

I research several of the articles by others who have had their accounts impaired to discover why mine was all of a sudden pulled-- without advising I must include. The posting dates on the posts span the life time of Facebook, revealing that the company has for life gotten on a behind-the-scenes campaign of disabling accounts at their discretion.

I discovered some articles by renowned bloggers or reporters, including Roger Ebert, Robert Scoble, as well as Stan Shroeder (Mashable). Many of these high-profiled Facebook customers had their profiles and/or pages reabled soon after Facebook uncovered who they disabled. For the remainder of us, we're generally on our very own.

Reading these short articles didn't instill much hope in me or my scenario. The understanding of what I lost was beginning to set in too.

Over the years I had computers collision, taken, shed, etc. as well as rely upon Facebook to host all my traveling and also party images. The website isn't going anywhere anytime quickly, so why not publish all my pictures on Facebook for my friends and household to watch at their discernment? There were more than 2000 pictures, many video clips, post (notes), plus all the get in touches with (I still haven't had the ability to reconnect with several that were all lost when Facebook handicapped my account). This was seeming a really grim situation as I better understood just what was lost.

I had to restore access to Facebook to manage the web pages for my clients, and additionally for my very own ventures. A number of my pages' admin access were shown to a companion and also were quickly held up up with the brand-new Facebook account I begrudgingly produced, cursing Facebook under my breath as I established the brand-new account.

A few of the Facebook web pages admin access were shown to my clients, whom I had to call to have them re-add me with my brand-new account. Every one of them asked "Why did your account get disabled?" and also truly so. I, also, would certainly examine the person I paid to handle my Facebook web page why their Facebook account was handicapped. Would not you?

I still don't have a solution to that question. "I have no concept" is the response I still give, since its real. Facebook has still yet to give me a reason why my account was handicapped. After reviewing the reasons Facebook handicapped accounts on their page I was still at night. I didn't spam-add people, article sex-related web content, bug anybody. so why they deleted me didn't make sense. Only after I check out other articles did I comprehend a bit extra.

Facebook can disable your account if your screen name is different than that on your birth certification. Mine was, yet not by much. It was still phonetically the very same, but meant various than the remainder of my family. I likewise had a client that just recently used a contest promotion to increase their e-mail list. According to Facebook promotional guidelines, contests can only be operated on Facebook through a couple of applications: ShortStack as well as WildFire. Could that be why my account was disabled? I examined that customer's Facebook page and it was gone too. Aha!

Although the contest had not been specifically held on Facebook (it was hosted on the customer's site), and also the champion was notified using email (you can not introduce champions on your wall surface), I was confident this was the angering activity which had me ushered off Facebook without so much as a 'Goodbye'.

At this moment it had to do with a week because I originally composed Facebook that fateful early morning, and I still hadn't obtained a reply. I revisited the web page allowing me to contact Facebook, and also discussed that I now had a far better idea about why they disabled me, and that I was sorry. I vowed never ever to do something like that once more (was it really that poor??) if they simply reable my account.

I sent that off as well as waited once again. After a couple of even more days I understood something. something very vital-- I produced a filter in gmail for Facebook emails. Even if they did email me, I would certainly have never ever gotten the e-mail since it was readied to "Miss Inbox/Delete". Severe.

So I sent out an additional email to Facebook, this moment letting them understand that I had a filter on my gmail and also if they did call me before this email, I would have never obtained it.

A couple of days later on I lastly received an e-mail from Javier at Facebook. Below's the only response I'll likely get 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 reaction-- sure Facebook is a 'young' company, yet I'm sure there should be somebody there with much better tact than 'we're not going to reable your account-- don't email us once again.' OKAY Facebook.

So what did I gain from my experience with Facebook?

1. Back up your account! You never ever understand if/when they'll decide to remove you.
2. Don't handle your various customer's web pages with the same account. If one page/account obtains removed, you will not lose them all.
3. A great deal of my friends are pretenders that's accounts are either concealed from search, or they disabled the "Add as a friend" button making it impossible to re-add them.

Its been about a month since I had my account disabled, as well as had lots of time to reflect on the experience. I have not tried to speak to Facebook directly considering that I obtained the e-mail from Javier, but I did start the site www.facebook-disabled-my-account.org, and the hashtag campaign on Twitter #FBdisabledMe to accentuate the adverse experience.

Do I desire Facebook to change their disabling plan? Nope.

I handle a few MU websites and also if you desire a person off your website, by all means delete them/block them/whatever. But for Facebook to disable the account as well as to keep the data/photos/videos/ connections/blog blog posts, that is wrong. What would Facebook be if nobody uploaded content onto the website-- No pictures to share or tag-- No short articles to Like-- No status updates to LOL at-- It would certainly be NOTHING.

Facebook ought to allow those that they disabled to download their account, letting them get their photos/videos/notes/ and so on, before going off to the barren marshes of Google+, or to RT their friends standing updates (in contrast to 'Suching as' it). Facebook currently makes it feasible for an energetic account to be downloaded, so why not an impaired account?

It's time for Facebook to obtain a bit more mature around-- especially with their IPO announced. I'm actually considering buying stock so they will certainly need to pay attention to my complaint-- at the minimum I'll benefit from them.

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

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