I was banned from Facebook...but why?

What a day it has been. I found out last evening I have been banned from Facebook. I was not given a specific reason for being ousted and given the boot.

I learned of the situation when I attempted to log in to my account. I got a message telling me my account had been disabled.

Thinking it must be a mistake I once again attempted the log in. No luck. Amazingly, I was soon to discover this situation is more common than most people realize.

First thing this morning, I sent a message to my opt-in subscribers letting them know I was no longer on Facebook. Amazingly, having one’s account disabled by Facebook is apparently very, very common.

Within minutes I received messages from several people who had had this experience or know someone who has gone through this. By day’s end I received hundreds of messages from people empathizing with the situation.

The great majority of folks had no clue why they got the “big boot” from the powers that be at Facebook. They could merely speculate.

Deciding to do a bit of research to find out how to get back up on Facebook, I came across a couple of excellent blog postings.

These are well worth reading.

13 Reasons Your Facebook Account Will be Disabled

and

Banned from Facebook

I will keep blogging about this and welcome you sharing your own experience if you, or someone you know, has gone through this.

Comments

[Deb]

This is such a bummer!

Do you know if being banned also locks you out of any FB Pages (the kind for which people can become a fan) you might have created for your business?

So many people are using FB to create almost their entire array of business relationships and contact lists. Clearly this can be very perilous for a business.

Let us know when you are reinstated!

Deb

[Kathleen Gage]

From what I have heard groups you formed do stay up. However, if you were the only Administrator, when you get booted off there is no administrator.

Don't quote me as this being fact in that I have only heard this and not been able to validate.

Will keep you posted.

Kathleen

[Donald James Parker]

I'm on the list of rejects too. Facebook was my social life. I spent about 3 hours a day on it. Maybe I should consider myself fortunate that I'm locked out. However I have hooked up with people from all my old jobs and schools and churches and it was great for being able to reach out and touch someone you haven't seen in years. It would be nice if the Facebook people would get a clue. If they don't let people use the site, they won't have any users and no revenue.
Donald James Parker
Author of Love Waits

[Valerie]

Hi Kathleen,

I received your email message about this and joined the group "Let Kathleen Gage Back on Facebook." For a social networking site to be so anti social makes no sense. How do you give someone the boot without giving an advance notice that they are doing something offensive? I hope they get an onslaught of posts in protest to how they are conducting their business.