Why don't they just disable whatever was causing the problem? Too many friends? Okay, disable the ability to add more friends. Too many emails? Okay, limit the number of emails. Stupid.
Facebook needs to quit with its thuggish attitude
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#22Over the year and a half I have had my profile, I had amassed hundreds of pictures, hundreds of personal messages, many links/bookmarks, and hundreds of useful personal contacts; and all have now been lost due to Facebook egregious and bull doggish attitude. It's their site, and you didn't pay to use it. I'm not sure why you'd expect them to care what you think. But anyway, consider it a gift. Instead of wasting your…
You have a point as far as ownership of the site goes, but I'm going to strenuously disagree with your second paragraph. You may not be a picture person, but many of my friends are. We have hundreds of pictures of us doing silly things in silly places, at parties, at weddings, graduations, traveling, etc. This is what we look like as we move through life, and all of them are valuable keepsakes of our time together, a…
I like pictures. However, I keep them in ~/Photos (which is backed up nightly to my Bingodisk). That way they're mine... and nobody can take them from me if I spam facebook.
If I want to share them, I use iWeb to make a nice-looking page.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have a point as far as ownership of the site goes, but I'm going to strenuously disagree with your second paragraph. You may not be a picture person, but many of my friends are. We have hundreds of pictures of us doing silly things in silly places, at parties, at weddings, graduations, traveling, etc. This is what we look like as we move through life, and all of them are valuable keepsakes of our time together, a…
That assumes he wasn't doing anything wrong, and they blocked him in error. If he was spamming, trying to amass 'friends', I'd say that is doing things the wrong way, and concentrating on real friends is a better plan.
We don't know that any spamming was involved. While concentrating on "real friends" is certainly a fine thing to do, if he were, say, a musician in an urban area, he could easily have 1000+ useful contacts, including fellow musicians, promoters, fans, his old college buddies, immediate and extended family, coworkers, and, of course, the "real friends."
Different people use facebook for different purposes. I completely agree that spamming strangers is not so good. However, simply having many contacts/friends doesn't seem so bad.
Re: Facebook needs to quit with its thuggish attitude
#24Why don't they just disable whatever was causing the problem? Too many friends? Okay, disable the ability to add more friends. Too many emails? Okay, limit the number of emails. Stupid.
For real. If software is supposed to operate within a set of hard limits, and its trivial to detected the attempted breaching of those limits, it's stupid as all hell not to have the software account for that without gratuitously throwing away all of the user's data.
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#26Sorry to hear this, especially as it sounds like you do not have a backup. What you may consider a false positive are common problems with FB/eBay/PayPal and the like who try to act in the best interest of the masses. If you are unable to resolve this, I can ask my friends who work there to see what they can do.
Why don't you email Mark Z directly? That will probably help you much more than dealing with customer service. Also keep us posted on how it goes. Good luck.
A customer of mine was unhappy with Amazon's service and couldn't get help. So he emailed Jeff Bezos. The next day, 4 reps called back.
It's worth a try.
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Why don't you email Mark Z directly? That will probably help you much more than dealing with customer service. Also keep us posted on how it goes. Good luck.
Yea, he seems like a reasonable guy. Just make sure to not mention any business ideas in your email.
That's funny!!
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#28From a TC article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/07/bigsight-aims-to-become...
FriendCSV: http://apps.facebook.com/friendcsv/ Backuper: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=5fe21f1...
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He detailed that in his post. They have control over his personal information and he wants it back. Is there a FB app that would backup your list of contacts and other information you'd like to have? Is it against the ToS?
Ya, this would be against the ToS.
This sort of data proprietarianism is just evil. For exactly the reasons that were discussing this topic today. Holding people hostage for their data is a slimy and vile way to treat your customers.
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#30Finally! A way to get all my information taken off Facebook without painstakingly deleting each entry I've ever made!
Sorry you got steamrolled. Best of luck getting your info back. I'm sure they didn't delete it, they love their precious data way too much.