All around the world, thousands, no tens of thousands of facebook users are being banned and suspended on a weekly basis. If you hear a long howl of terrible loneliness and you know there are no wolves in your area, look for a desperate facebook soul who has just had their account either suspended or banned.
Some might say - so what? Big deal, you got banned or suspended. But if you are the one in the soup and your boss is wondering what happened to the 300 friends you were going to invite to his party, or your loved one is wondering if you are hiding from him/her then the deal gets a little more serious.
So, let me see if I got this right - 580 cherished friends of your mother-in-law didn't get their invite and you just got suspended from facebook while in this, the most tedious of chores. Better come straight with your mother-in-law right away, because facebook does not lift suspensions in any "reasonable" time-frame. And as for outright bans, if you were given one of those unjustly, you can try their dispute resolution email, however for all intents and purposes you are better off kissing that account goodbye.
And let us not forget that commercial class of people feeling deep business angst over having lost their list of 3-4000 prospects. Sometimes these are the mom and pop type companies who have decided to use facebook for marketing and sometimes these are sizable mid-sized corporations getting overly aggressive with their grassroots marketing or surveying. In any case, the loss of the profile also means no contact with the prospective customer base.
In that article, I wrote a little about the facebook warning messages which I and many others consider quite bland. I detailed in vivid language that I personally felt that for such an important thing, they facebook could have done a little better in terms of bringing the urgency of the situation to their members.
But I can be excused, I suppose for not thoroughly listing at that time the many ways that most users get hung up suspended and banned by Facebook rules. Well here are the top activities to stay clear of while doodling around in Facebook.
Nudity. Is it art or pornography? Want to test the fine line? Well, if you want to Facebook is a great place to rationalize this sort of thing. If they deem that picture of your ex was not **Art** then art you go, my friend. Yeah, I wouldn't suggest you test them in this regard with anything less than a well recognized international art piece - lets say something of the stature of a "Mona Lisa" Oddly enough, writing to too many people before they accept you as a friend - looks like spam. Writing too many times in a short period of time on group walls. Stay under 30 per day and don't test that number to seriously.
Creating a group inside Facebook with the Facebook name/word in it - its trademarked you know. Creating a website outside of facebook with the facebook name in it. Hijacking the accounts of others - only a hacker would do this one Using an image that you do not have the authority to use - tens of thousands do this. Using the facebook email like its twitter. Surprise it' s not, there is a chat facility for that and its what facebook now suggests you use.
If you are a group admin, spamming your own group more than three times in a day. If you have just been warned about something. Do it twice more within an hour or so. Sending Add requests to more than 250 people you don't know within a 24-48 hour span of time.
Generally, it would appear that there are two classes of evil that can get one banned or suspended from facebook. Nudity and stealing images and other such types of activity is one class of activity.
You can invite 500 perfect facebook strangers to be your friend but not in the same hour or day. Over two weeks or more would be perfect, but not 1 day.
If however you are reading this after having gotten suspended or banned, there is a resolution email on the site that you can attempt to plead your case to.
Some might say - so what? Big deal, you got banned or suspended. But if you are the one in the soup and your boss is wondering what happened to the 300 friends you were going to invite to his party, or your loved one is wondering if you are hiding from him/her then the deal gets a little more serious.
So, let me see if I got this right - 580 cherished friends of your mother-in-law didn't get their invite and you just got suspended from facebook while in this, the most tedious of chores. Better come straight with your mother-in-law right away, because facebook does not lift suspensions in any "reasonable" time-frame. And as for outright bans, if you were given one of those unjustly, you can try their dispute resolution email, however for all intents and purposes you are better off kissing that account goodbye.
And let us not forget that commercial class of people feeling deep business angst over having lost their list of 3-4000 prospects. Sometimes these are the mom and pop type companies who have decided to use facebook for marketing and sometimes these are sizable mid-sized corporations getting overly aggressive with their grassroots marketing or surveying. In any case, the loss of the profile also means no contact with the prospective customer base.
In that article, I wrote a little about the facebook warning messages which I and many others consider quite bland. I detailed in vivid language that I personally felt that for such an important thing, they facebook could have done a little better in terms of bringing the urgency of the situation to their members.
But I can be excused, I suppose for not thoroughly listing at that time the many ways that most users get hung up suspended and banned by Facebook rules. Well here are the top activities to stay clear of while doodling around in Facebook.
Nudity. Is it art or pornography? Want to test the fine line? Well, if you want to Facebook is a great place to rationalize this sort of thing. If they deem that picture of your ex was not **Art** then art you go, my friend. Yeah, I wouldn't suggest you test them in this regard with anything less than a well recognized international art piece - lets say something of the stature of a "Mona Lisa" Oddly enough, writing to too many people before they accept you as a friend - looks like spam. Writing too many times in a short period of time on group walls. Stay under 30 per day and don't test that number to seriously.
Creating a group inside Facebook with the Facebook name/word in it - its trademarked you know. Creating a website outside of facebook with the facebook name in it. Hijacking the accounts of others - only a hacker would do this one Using an image that you do not have the authority to use - tens of thousands do this. Using the facebook email like its twitter. Surprise it' s not, there is a chat facility for that and its what facebook now suggests you use.
If you are a group admin, spamming your own group more than three times in a day. If you have just been warned about something. Do it twice more within an hour or so. Sending Add requests to more than 250 people you don't know within a 24-48 hour span of time.
Generally, it would appear that there are two classes of evil that can get one banned or suspended from facebook. Nudity and stealing images and other such types of activity is one class of activity.
You can invite 500 perfect facebook strangers to be your friend but not in the same hour or day. Over two weeks or more would be perfect, but not 1 day.
If however you are reading this after having gotten suspended or banned, there is a resolution email on the site that you can attempt to plead your case to.
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