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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 olavk »

King-Aaron wrote: post #41
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.

On the other hand, I find it interesting that everytime somebody is complaining about censorship on Facebook, they are almost always following up with complaints of some other objectionable content not being censored.

The think about the nipple ban is it is a really simple rule and it is really easy to decide if a picture contains a nipple or not.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

DarkKomunalec wrote: post #36
Jaruzel wrote: post #9

I 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 t…

'If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product' This adage is beginning to show its age - virtually all services that can get their hands on your data end up selling it nowadays, whether you pay them or not. I heard even some restaurant chains sell data on who they served and when.

Indeed. It's time to simply say: in surveillance capitalism, you are the product.

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

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Post by wfunction »

Anybody know what those who have the "wrong" name on Facebook but who can't change their name anymore (because they already changed it once and got reported or something) are supposed to do? Obviously IDs are going to show your legal name rather than the one you go by, so if you send one in, won't you just be giving Facebook proof that you violated their ToS, and won't they just ban you instead of updating it? Or if you don't send one in, then how can you change your name to the "correct" one so you don't lose your account like this later?

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

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Post by subroutine »

As others have pointed out: fb is not your primary disk, so back up your pix. If they're offering a free service, you are the product.

I'm gunna add one obvious thing to that list... fb is not your product.

As I was reading through that article, it was all - client this, client that. "I can't admin my client's fb pages." Admin. A fb page admin. Cuz it sort of reads like: I perform guerrilla social marketing, SEO, and branding campaigns for a myriad of clients on someone else's social network, and they banned my account for spamming their users.

"Why would fb do this to me", he asks himself, but then realized something, "something very important - I hate getting bullshit spam all day from facebook, so I filtered all Facebook updates to Skip Inbox, Delete. Surely the answer to why they blocked me was there somewhere."

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

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Post by NuDinNou »

Jaruzel wrote: post #9

I 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 t…

> Facebook is NOT a backup. If you only keep stuff in your Facebook account

That's not what a back up is. Facebook can be a backup for your photos.

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

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Post by Broken_Hippo »

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…

Folks have tried starting alternatives to facebook: I think the real problem is that facebook is more similiar to a phone company that only connects its users to others that have the same phone company. It was the only game in town for a while, so this has made it into a near-monopoly.

If facebook was required to have some level of across-platform access, this might level the playing field and give us actual choice. Unfortunatly, I think this will take legislative action to accomplish. Until then, luck and time might change the course of things.

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

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Post by jaitaiwan »

smeroth wrote: post #30
MikeVanBike wrote: post #24

I learn to quit facebook very early days. I don't like the privacy violations or that big brother spying you feeling. Also account deletions are happening to everyone who talk against facebook. Crooked as google. Both really disappointing services all the way. People, please use alternatives

Alternatives to Facebook that's not made by Google?

Mastodon somewhat I guess

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

khedoros1 wrote: post #33
vivekd wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, still though, you'd think someone at facebook would have returned his photos and videos if he had requested, just to be nice. We are moving to a cloud based world, and I'd hate for it to be a world where people rely widely on cloud based services and risk losing their vital documents if they get banned from a given service.

We're there, and have been for years. The employees aren't paid to be "nice", and if you don't have a contract with the company storing your data, then you're making a mistake relying on them. Rely on them for convenient access to your files...but not as your prime copy, or your essential backup. You use their services at their whim.

>The employees aren't paid to be "nice" //

Why not? Our UK micro-business's (PLC's) internal motto is "be nice" seems to work well.

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

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Post by krylon »

CyberTrekker wrote: post #51
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…

Not only is that addage showing its age, even though it's as applicable now as it was from its point of first usage, but I would suggest it's a disgrace that humans both think and act in such a manner. In other words, just because it's free shouldn't mean the user should be the product. I realize a lot of people will not agree with me, however I tend to think way beyond the general human conception and as a consequen…

> just because it's free shouldn't mean the user should be the product

I agree with you that that should not be the case. When I look at all the good things human beings have accomplished over the millennia, I cannot help but think that we can do better than this if we set our mind to it.

But life is not the way it should be (IMHO) in so many different levels in so many different ways I would not even know where to begin counting.

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

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Post by pmlnr »

NuDinNou wrote: post #65
Jaruzel wrote: post #9

I 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 t…

> Facebook is NOT a backup. If you only keep stuff in your Facebook account That's not what a back up is. Facebook can be a backup for your photos.

> Facebook can be a backup for your photos.

Nonsense. Try getting the originals out of Facebook.

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