Kicked off Facebook!

I am extremely annoyed. Royally pissed. My Facebook account was disabled a week ago. For no apparent reason. I was simply posting a link to my blog on a mom’s group and suddenly I was bumped out with the message:

Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here.

That’s it! No mention of when I would get my account back or the reasons why it was disabled in the first place.

Remember when you were a teenager and you were grounded and you were going to miss out on THE ultimate party of the year? This is what I felt like!!!

A life without Facebook? Imagine what I will miss out on! Bob becoming friends with Bill. I’m not going to know that Anna made an apple pie from scratch. Or that George is proud of himself for putting up the Christmas lights. Or that Tania just IS.

I’m not going to learn that Carrie joined the Swingers Group, or that Diana is attending a Speed Dating Event. Or that married Michael is now single.

Oh please please PLEASE give me my Facebook back!!!!

So why was I disabled? I realized that perhaps some of my wall postings share similar text… but I’m not a spammer! I don’t use a fake identity, harrass people or post porn.

Once I received a warning for sending too many messages. Uh… isn’t FB supposed to be a social network???

I’ve sent numerous emails to FB but still have not heard back. What concerns me is they can easily disable your account and hold onto all of your personal information, photos, emails and friend lists.

I didn’t realize that there was such strict FB Police patrol! At least with the police, they read you your rights.

I Googled “disabled Facebook account” to see what I could find out. Was I surprised to see that so many people have had complaints also. Apparently there are tons of dissatisfied users out there, many of them having their accounts disabled without notice or warning, some never to return:

Dale of Carrollton TX wrote on a website, “They Took me off! I don’t know, and can not find out WHY!”
Alexandra of Clearwater FL wrote: “I was disabled for thanking the people who sent me invites. I was not even inviting anyone. And no one at Facebook will respond. “
Gergana of Burbank CA wrote: “They have cancelled my account twice without any kind of explanation. I believe that Facebook needs to go out of business!”

It’s amazing how we live for technology these days and rely solely on it. Without FB, I have no other way of connecting with certain friends. It’s pretty ridiculous, isn’t it? How many of you actually use the telephone to call people and chat like the old days?

But now with Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, you don’t even need to talk directly to people anymore.

I am thankful for FB because it allowed me to reconnect with long lost friends… some of which have now become important in my life again.

FB has taken the “I wonder what happened to…” question and given you the answer quite effortlessly. When I first joined FB, I asked myself, “do I really want to know what that person is doing now?”

Sometimes the mystery of not knowing is intruiging… you imagine what has become of that person and you come to your own conclusions. With FB, you either find out that you were dead on with your instincts or totally wrong.

You imagined that the Priest’s son would have become a criminal only to discover that he cleaned up his act and became a Priest too. Or that the skinny, popular girl in high school didn’t turn out to be fat after kids like some of her rivals wished for – she still has a great figure!

After my huge rant about FB, my account was finally enabled again. Hurray!!! Excited to see what happened the week I was away? Truth be told, I didn’t miss out on much at all.

Maria