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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)

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Post by King-Aaron »

antihero wrote: post #31

I think the worst thing that they do is disable your ability to send messages. This weekend a friend committed suicide, and I had just started a seven day ban due to idiotically posting the wrong photo (a nude) to a meme group. Whereas most of my closest friends have me on WhatsApp, so I could reassure them I was ok, it was really fucking horrible getting a bunch of Messenger messages asking if I was ok and being com…

I know it's not directly on-topic, but I find it amazing that people end up copping a seven-day ban for a bit of titty, but then nothing is done for those videos of people killing puppies and shit.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by Mikushi »

antihero wrote: post #31

I think the worst thing that they do is disable your ability to send messages. This weekend a friend committed suicide, and I had just started a seven day ban due to idiotically posting the wrong photo (a nude) to a meme group. Whereas most of my closest friends have me on WhatsApp, so I could reassure them I was ok, it was really fucking horrible getting a bunch of Messenger messages asking if I was ok and being com…

> there appears to be absolutely no form of appeals process

It's a common problem with these giants (Facebook, Google, Twitter). Being an area that does not generate profit there is not attention paid to it, or just the bare minimum.

Though I understand the difficulties to scale something like that to hundred of millions of users. Even if a small fraction want to appeal whatever ban they received that could be quite the mass of people to deal with.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by barking »

zamalek wrote: post #38

> So what did I learn from my experience with Facebook? Back up your account! You never know if/when they’ll decide to delete you. Just delete your account. Find a way to share your photos without any of this nonsense: Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Flickr. Not only do you run the risk of Facebook deleting your stuff, but [when I still had an account] it was was a dreadful UX for exploring photos. Use products buil…

Yes. Thankfully I've never felt the inclination to join Facebook and reading stories like this just makes me angry at Facebook and at people for making them so powerful.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by Asooka »

krylon wrote: post #8

On 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 sin…

The actual solution would be something like "pool all our money, then execute a hostile takeover of Facebook, kick the entire board, and pivot the company to a nonprofit business model". Until then, well... https://xkcd.com/743/

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by Matt3o12_ »

antihero wrote: post #31

I think the worst thing that they do is disable your ability to send messages. This weekend a friend committed suicide, and I had just started a seven day ban due to idiotically posting the wrong photo (a nude) to a meme group. Whereas most of my closest friends have me on WhatsApp, so I could reassure them I was ok, it was really fucking horrible getting a bunch of Messenger messages asking if I was ok and being com…

Well, they banned you because they want you to stop posting inappropriate pictures (as defined by their TOS). They also stopped you from using their messager because they were afraid you would just continue sending inappropriate picture using private messages (which would make their ban completely useless).

I agree though that they should have let your friends know that you cannot answer any messages for X amount of days.

My tip is to just stop using any social networks when you are intoxicated because their will be a permanent record of the things you have done and said which is almost never good. It is so much more fun without a mobile fun anyways.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by kidsil »

antihero wrote: post #31

I think the worst thing that they do is disable your ability to send messages. This weekend a friend committed suicide, and I had just started a seven day ban due to idiotically posting the wrong photo (a nude) to a meme group. Whereas most of my closest friends have me on WhatsApp, so I could reassure them I was ok, it was really fucking horrible getting a bunch of Messenger messages asking if I was ok and being com…

A super easy solution to this would've been disabling your ability to send new messages, but enabling your ability to respond to incoming chats. This way even a hypothetical spammer case is properly blocked..

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by uranian »

You should have learned to be very happy they disabled your account! Facebook is for idiots and for companies that milk those idiots. This event likely saved you for wasting even more of your precious life time. Be happy and do some great things with your life without feeling the need to constantly show off.

Re: What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (2012)

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

marenkay wrote: post #26

Consider not using Facebook at all. It has zero value for the user, it only has value for Facebook.

Facebook has enormous value for the user. They didn't get this popular by accident. They provide a wonderful service, and they chain it to acceptance of their awful terms.

Imagining that your use case is the only use case is the great bane of geeks and developers. If you want to help build a world without awful tech companies, you need to stop doing that.

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