My Facebook Account is Deactivated | Update 2019

To state that Facebook plays a big component in my life is a little bit of an understatement-- as I make sure it is for any other social media supervisor. Not only do I utilize it to correspond with loved ones-- yet I'm for life adding web content to among the many pages I admin, whether for myself or for customers.

My Facebook Account Is Deactivated

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

My account was disabled? What does that also mean?

I tried to log in with one more browser and I obtained the same message. Facebook handicapped my account!

Facebook supplied a type submission page for those wishing to write to Facebook regarding their handicapped account, as well as I emailed them primarily asking why my account was handicapped as well as how I can get gain access to back to the countless pages I'm an admin for. I clarified that I take care of a variety of pages for customers, and also was constantly conscious about the web content I published-- nevertheless, my parents are on Facebook as well.

After sending out the email to Facebook, I sent out an e-mail to the close friends who's e-mail addresses I in fact had and discussed what took place. Thanks to the connect-ability of Facebook, a lot of my friends were just able to be spoken to by me on Facebook.

The replies I got from that email were categorized right into three different categories:

- WTF/WTH-- why would certainly they do that ??
- Is it since you uploaded political stuff (I such as Ron Paul and common web content about #OWS).
- Perhaps someone flagged you.

I check out a few of the posts by others who have had their accounts impaired to learn why my own was all of a sudden pulled-- without alerting I should add. The posting days on the posts cover the lifetime of Facebook, revealing that the firm has permanently been on a behind the curtain project of disabling accounts at their discretion.

I located some short articles by renowned blog writers or reporters, consisting of Roger Ebert, Robert Scoble, as well as Stan Shroeder (Mashable). A lot of these high-profiled Facebook individuals had their accounts and/or pages reabled soon after Facebook found that they disabled. For the remainder people, we're basically on our own.

Checking out these write-ups really did not infuse much hope in me or my scenario. The awareness of what I lost was starting to embed in too.

For many years I had computer systems collision, taken, lost, and so on and depend on Facebook to organize all my travel as well as party images. The internet site isn't going anywhere anytime quickly, so why not upload all my photos on Facebook for my friends and household to see at their discernment? There were well over 2000 images, many video clips, blog posts (notes), plus all the contacts (I still have not been able to reconnect with many that were all shed when Facebook disabled my account). This was looking to be an extremely bleak circumstance as I further realized simply what was lost.

I needed to gain back access to Facebook to handle the web pages for my clients, and additionally for my very own enterprises. Most of my pages' admin access were shared with a companion and also were easily set back up with the new Facebook account I begrudgingly produced, cursing Facebook under my breath as I established the new account.

Some of the Facebook web pages admin accessibility were shown to my clients, whom I needed to get in touch with to have them re-add me with my new account. Every one of them asked "Why did your account obtain disabled?" as well as rightfully so. I, as well, would examine the person I paid to manage my Facebook page why their Facebook account was disabled. Wouldn't you?

I still don't have an answer to that concern. "I have no concept" is the response I still offer, since its true. Facebook has still yet to provide me a reason why my account was handicapped. After reading the factors Facebook impaired accounts on their web page I was still at night. I really did not spam-add individuals, blog post sex-related web content, bother any individual. so why they erased me really did not make good sense. Only after I check out various other articles did I recognize a bit much more.

Facebook can disable your account if your screen name is different than that on your birth certificate. Mine was, however not by a lot. It was still phonetically the exact same, however meant different than the remainder of my household. I also had a customer who lately made use of a contest promotion to increase their e-mail list. According to Facebook marketing standards, contests can just be run on Facebook with either applications: ShortStack and also WildFire. Could that be why my account was disabled? I inspected that customer's Facebook web page and also it was gone also. Aha!

Although the contest wasn't precisely hosted on Facebook (it was hosted on the customer's website), as well as the victor was alerted using e-mail (you can not introduce champions on your wall surface), I was positive this was the upseting activity which had me brought in off Facebook without even a 'Goodbye'.

At this point it was about a week since I initially created Facebook that eventful early morning, and also I still had not received a reply. I reviewed the web page permitting me to get in touch with Facebook, and clarified that I now had a much 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 truly that poor??) if they just reable my account.

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

So I sent out another e-mail to Facebook, this moment letting them know that I had a filter on my gmail and also if they did contact me before this e-mail, I would have never ever received it.

A few days later I lastly got an e-mail from Javier at Facebook. Right here's the only action 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 an adolescent feedback-- sure Facebook is a 'young' company, yet I make certain there should be a person there with better tact than 'we're not going 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 know if/when they'll choose to remove you.
2. Do not manage your different client's web pages with the very same account. If one page/account obtains erased, you will not lose them all.
3. A great deal of my friends are pretenders who's profiles are either concealed from search, or they disabled the "Add as a friend" button making it difficult to re-add them.

Its been about a month because I had my account impaired, and had lots of time to reflect on the experience. I have not attempted to contact Facebook straight since I received the email from Javier, yet I did start the internet site www.facebook-disabled-my-account.org, and also the hashtag campaign on Twitter #FBdisabledMe to accentuate the adverse experience.

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

I handle a few MU sites as well as if you want somebody off your site, 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 Facebook be if no one uploaded web content onto the site-- No images to share or tag-- No write-ups to Like-- No condition updates to LOL at-- It would be ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Facebook ought to enable those who they disabled to download their account, letting them get their photos/videos/notes/ and so on, prior to going off to the barren marshes of Google+, or to RT their close friends standing updates (as opposed to 'Suching as' it). Facebook already makes it feasible for an energetic account to be downloaded and install, so why not a disabled account?

It's time for Facebook to obtain a little bit more mature in this field-- especially with their IPO revealed. I'm in fact considering buying stock just so they will have to pay attention to my issue-- at the very least I'll benefit from them.

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

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