What about a story about people getting kicked off facebook for no reason?
It doesn't seem like it happens to a lot of us, but it happened to me. How about an update on this guy's article: http://www.optimizationtoday.com/social-media/what-i-learned-when-facebook-disabled-my-account/
My account was disabled about a month ago, after 12 years of happy and uneventful activity. I went looking for information, and found this article, which offered cold comfort. At least I wasn't alone, but I was prepared for the worst. Still I cooperated with them, did everything they asked, and told them every couple of days how much I looked forward to being on Facebook again. My wife and friends urged me to make a new account, which I resisted because after reading other people's experiences here, I believed they would shut down both my old and new accounts. I eventually decided I really had nothing left to lose, so I did this. After about 12 hours, they disabled my new account, and the old one was apparently wiped out in the process of creating the new one. This time on my departure, I wasn't so friendly towards them. I sent them this message. It's not an idle threat, and I urge the rest of you to do as I am about to do. "You have disabled my account in error of fact or judgement twice now. I am going to contact my senator and suggest that Facebook be dismantled or restructured as a public utility. You folks have been getting a lot of push back from that crowd recently, though not on this issue. I hope I can contribute to their awareness on this topic. I am going to advise everyone I know to do the same. What a shame that you have made somebody who has been your friend for a dozen years into your enemy. How many others are there out there like me? I look forward to finding out with lively anticipation."
There are something like 250 comments posted since he wrote his article in 2012, and while you can see how some of them have likely done sometthing to get them disabled (the guy that called it "jewbook" for example) the comments from grandmothers who only posted pictures of the grandkids and rescue dogs was a familiar one. 12 years of no problems, not even a warning - now without even a single warning they have thrown me out.Craig Silverman is a media editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in Toronto.
Contact Craig Silverman at craig.silverman@buzzfeed.com.
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