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Facebook account disabled

by Mr Kirkland on October 30th, 2008

29/10/2008 Good old facebook has booted a few Tokyo techies off their website (I think it’s just a glitch though). Maybe a sign from the Japanese Gods that we should be using mixi (*_*)

Interesting check as to how much one depends on facebook, please check which apply:

  1. How dare you disable my account, do you realise how long it took me to build up a million friends?
  2. Bummer, no one can contact me now
  3. Good, less procrastination
  4. Like I give a shit. I’m used to facebook deleting things e.g. when they deleted the killer app I spent a few weeks working on

Update: Japanese techies affected aswell

Update 2: Word from facebook, they want to verify my identity:

Hi Chris,

Thanks for providing this information. At this time, we cannot verify the ownership of the account. Please send a scanned image of a government issued ID (e.g. driver’s license) to idrequests@facebook.com in order to confirm your ownership of the account. Please black out any personal information that is not needed to verify your identity (e.g. social security number). Rest assured that we will permanently delete your ID from our servers once we have used it to verify the authenticity of your account.

Additionally, you should make sure to copy and paste all of our previous correspondence into your message when you reply. Once we have received this information, we will reevaluate the status of the account. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

Daisy
User Operations
Facebook

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23 Comments
  1. JeremyG permalink

    Nasty Facebook. We miss you! Well, specifically, I miss sentence-game, and I’m guessing its current malaise may be connected to this.

  2. my facebook is not opening i did log in also please do it for me

  3. not doing for me

  4. I wasnt login the Facebook These pages always gave that message ( Your account has been disabled by an administrator. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here) Please help me.

    What can I do about that? Why did you cancel or disable my account?

    Please open my account. If I did a wrong thing, I apologize you. I m waiting your suggests and soonest reply

    Best regards

    Tolga Cuneyt Alkan

    alkanc@hotmail.com

  5. my facebook page was disabled how do i get it back please help

  6. moo permalink

    What right does Facebook have to verify MY identity?

    It’s a free service. If they say use a real name, and I do– what right do they have to make me prove it with a government ID? I know they have a T.O.S., but forcing users to comply with official IDs for some social networking site is ludicrous.

  7. Mr Kirkland permalink

    moo, I think yours is my favourite comment of the month :)

  8. Monty DiPietro permalink

    My Facebook account also got disabled, today. I saw you and Jean Snow and some other Tokyo people I know had this happen to you, I’d like to know how you got it sorted out?

    Monty DiPietro

  9. Mr Kirkland permalink

    Hi Monty,

    I emailed them and then they asked for proof of my identity.
    I scanned an mailed my passport (after blanking out the passport number with photoshop).
    They let me back in after about 48 hours.

  10. Monty DiPietro permalink

    Ok thanks. I was wondering why it seemed to happen to quite a few Japan accounts at the same time, but I guess Facebook didn’t say? Passport ID for a social networking site, that is surprising!

  11. Greedings to all FaceBook users my FaceBook account was “DISABLE” 05-03-09 for to many friends request. but when you read the terms of Agreedment it dose not say how many friend request you can add like for example you can only add 50/100/75 something like that but when you read the Agreedment it dose not say anything about that. but at the end of the day i realy like FaceBook thank you.HARVEY

  12. Hi all! My name is Ricky. I’m 20 years old and I live in Indonesia. Severals hours ago my Facebook account has been disable! :( I don’t know why it can be like that! I didn’t received any warning from facebook! I am approving peoples who added me and suddenly I can do that and I can go into my profile. I have 2800 friends now and every 3 days there are plus of 100 walls for me… My friends are from all over the world, I like to know another persons and their culture, facebook really help me to do that! But now? What happen with my account?! I have spent manyyyy time to check my FB and there are hundreds of my photos! I’m frustating now! Please somebody help me…?! :( Why FB do that?! Are they become arrogant since many people of the world use it so they can disable any person as they wish?? I use the real name, real photos, there aren’t porn photos! But why my account is disable? There are many fake facebook account and there are porn photos, but they haven’t a problem with their account!! I’ve sent a protest to Facebook. I hope they want to reply me and activate my FB…!! If you want to know me or become my friend you can send me an email to prince.ricky@ymail.com or my YM: q_bluelover. I really sad and frustate!! :( Je suis tres triste!!

  13. david permalink

    hey guys if u said that we can email the passport how can i contact them i want the direct link to contact them my account was disabled without do anything wrong so anyone can help plz help

  14. Hey Guys
    I live in Singapore and had my account disabled too! It was weird. I was going to attempt a quiz then suddenly I had a login request. I thought it was a technical glitch but then came out ‘Account Disabled’. It must be a mistake. It’s outrageous that facebook does that without notification or warning. I’m pissed

  15. Jay permalink

    Hi, my facebook content, contact, photos etc.. details was removed and I was left with a blank profile…has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know who I should contact at facebook, like an email addrsss. J

  16. olivia permalink

    hello, i am only 14 years old and my facebook acount was disabled last night, i was having a conversation with one of my cousins overseas and it just signed out. please help me i would reall like my facebook back.

  17. Tony Hephaestus permalink

    Wow emailing official documents – driving license / passport etc. Thats a big NO NO in my book – jeez I think facebook had enough nformation on me for identity theft as it was – REALLY give it a good long thinking before handing over that kind of documentation to anyone let alone a ’social networking’ site.

    Facebook seems faceless to me in relation to the robotic effects of FARCEbook trying to protect themselves from what their farcebots consider is ’spam’. One might have thought that people would use the same message on a large portion of friends saving time on re-writing BUT not FARCEbook who see it as a dangerous action. Sadly their farcebots can’t tell the difference from adverts and social connectivity of human beings – though one could think that checking up on private messages sent to friends to invite them to connect fell outside the scope of control and into the scope of privacy.
    Of course don’t get me started on someone being disabled not getting the right of reply – defending themselves with being able to collect their history and not knowing what the hell they’ve been ‘disabled’ – ‘crippled’ – cut off or whatever else you’d like to call it. I don’t know if anyone’s read Franz Kafka ‘The Trial” but it certainly seemed poignant to me FARCEbook appears very Kafkaesque. Faceless farce book!

  18. Abdo Hima permalink

    My facebook account was disabled

    I want to get it back please

    http://www.facebook.com/abdo.hima
    It’s my profile’s link
    It had the name “Abdo Hima”

  19. BIKAL NEPAL permalink

    YOU KNOW WHAT? FACEBOOK IS THE WORST WEBSITE I HAVE EVER SEEN IT S***S
    I CAN’T LOGIN TO MY ACCOUNT IT ALWAYS SAYS INVALID EMAIL/PASSWORD WHEN I AM DAM SURE IT’S CORRECT. ONCE AGAIN FACEBOOK S***S.

  20. My account was disabled 4 days ago. I never received any warning or any reason for disabling my account. If I were reported for any malicious acts, then it would be fair if they could specify the reasons.

    I am really pissed off. Sent my follow up message just minutes ago. Hope they would reply soon.

  21. ALIN VGU permalink

    Account Disabled
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  22. AHMED SHAH permalink

    FACEBOOK:=shah6699@live.com
    PASSWORD:=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    my account was disabled plz any one in this world help me.

    [mrkirkland edited - Ahmed, don't post your password on public websites!!!]

  23. Ahmed permalink

    my facebook account is disabled and i dont know why please help me because i have to contact my family and friends please help me my account night_sniper12@hotmail.com

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