What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
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What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
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Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
#2The article is from 2012. Not that I have seen Facebook changing its ways, anyway.
Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
#3Am I reading it correctly that this guy never actually found out why his Facebook account was disabled?
Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
#4That site is struggling under the HN load. Maybe they should have optimized prior to today?
Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
#5Am I reading it correctly that this guy never actually found out why his Facebook account was disabled?
Sort of. Facebook never told him. But he guessed that it was because of either real name policy or more likely because one of his clients ran a single semi spamy marketing campaign.
Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
#6From 2012. This part is quite dated: "Facebook can disable your account if your display name is different than that on your birth certificate".
Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
#7From my experience, it's nearly impossible to get help from Facebook/Instagram if what you need is not listed in their help page. I used to have two Insta accounts and two FB accounts(personal & professional). When Instagram released a new version to add multiple insta accounts, I did the mistake of adding my work account. But Insta was so buggy that it merged my imported FB friend list of both my Insta accounts. This incident made me never trust Insta/FB/Whatsapp again.
Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
#8On the one hand, I cannot help but feel for this person - Facebook, without an explanation, did significant damage to this person's career. At least that's the way he paints it (though he mentions a rule in his mailbox that deleted mail from facebook automatically, so there might have been a warning and all that - we'll never know).
On the other hand, well, that is precisely what some people warned us of - give a single company that much power, and it will inevitably be abused, be it by malice or incompetence.
But it is not easy to give any useful advice, because there is basically no alternative to facebook - you can go with the flow or stay away from it. But there is not "something like Facebook without all the problems that come with it being a single large profit-driven corporation". The only solution I can think of is for lots and lots of people to pool their money and start a non-profit Facebook. And even then, I am not overly optimistic, because by now the network effect is far too strong.
Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
#9I know the article is old, but the author showed a severe lack of common sense.
Facebook is NOT a backup. If you only keep stuff in your Facebook account, then it is as 'at risk' as if you only kept on the hard-drive of your ageing laptop that you bought on discount in Walmart/ASDA ten years ago.
This oft quoted adage also applies: 'If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product'. The author seemed to think that Facebook owe him for some reason, and that he is fully justified/entitled in begging for his account back. Facebook is a private company who most of the time let the general public mingle in the lobby of its HQ[1]. As their lobby is still their property, they can refuse entry whenever they like.
Something needs to be done about Facebook's near dominance of the Social Media space. If we let this run unchecked for much longer, there won't be an 'internet' - just millions of stale, abandoned websites all simply redirecting you to their respective Facebook Pages instead. It also wouldn't surprise me if at some point, new phones will be released where the browser app is no longer installed by default, but the Facebook app is. Even if this happened today, most non-technical users wouldn't even notice.
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[1] Because the lobby is full of adverts from Facebook's business partners and Facebook gets a nice cut if you buy something being advertised.
Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)
#10If this happened, then under the EU data directive facebook would be obligated to still provide all data they have on someone even after they disable their account. So, the data would not be gone as long as it was not deleted.