Is there a reason that Facebook declines to provide the user it disables with no comment?

I am just speculating here, but an educated guess would lead me to think that Facebook continues to disable a disproportionate number of accounts held by activist or minority groups such as the gay community.

The logic behind this is simple. Facebook gives people the platform to communicate and share their social values. The gay community, is and has been especially vocal with the drive for Equal rights, and rightly so!!
It makes sense that users that are more active with posts, or more popular within the network attract more attention than the regular guy out fishing on the weekend and posting profiles pics of his 28" salmon.

In Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities at #14. they discuss "Termination".

14.  Termination 
If you violate the letter or spirit of this Statement, or otherwise create possible legal exposure for us, we can stop providing all or part of Facebook to you. We will notify you by email or at the next time you attempt to access your account. You may also delete your account or disable your application at any time. In all such cases, this Statement shall terminate, but the following provisions will still apply: 2.2, 2.4, 3-5, 8.2, 9.1-9.3, 9.9, 9.10, 9.13, 9.15.1, 9.18, 10.3, 11.2, 11.5, 11.6, 11.9, 11.9, 11.12, 11.13, and 14-18.

Sound a bit vague to you? Yes to me also.

As a follow on to my previous blog, guilty until proven innocent is the norm with these internet companies. Facebook have enough legal resources, not to mention the monopoly now that perhaps it's time for us little people, >>yes us the users<< to start to expect and seek better advice about our rights to our profiles.

All we are asking for at this time is for SOME COMMUNICATION from Facebook regarding the situation with disabled accounts.

I will continue to pursue this matter. I have emailed www.mashable.com, www.techcrunch.com and other similar sites to see if I can find a journalist who is astute enough to realize that real people are being hurt by facebook's inability to get their spam algorithms correct.

How can you help? Post this blog or other similar blogs to your facebook, tweet comments...
by getting the attention of the larger social media news sites we can bring the issue of disabled accounts to the management at Facebook... if Facebook does their job better, then I am sure they can avoid the law suits that will inevitably happen if they don't.

69 kisses, Syd.

Facebook disables its entire user base, after its user use algorithm gets a mind of its own.

Despite severe warnings from Facebook, users who continued to use the site for social networking ... doing things like posting wall comments, playing applications, sending messages, expanding their friendship circle have now been eliminated.

One user comments... "It's like a ghost town. The only posts on my news feed are those from players still playing Zynga's zombie dance band war-ville. I am so scared, I really don't know what to do. I have no idea how to send regular emails anymore, and who is going to look at all my baby photos I keep posting."

Sounds like Science Fiction? Well yes, perhaps the statement is a little exagerated, but it is becoming more obvious that Facebook is starting to suffer from a spam protection system that can no longer keep up with the number of users.

With Facebook now the third largest web property in the world, is it ok for it to continue to operate under private company policy and not be required to provide its customers with any support or reasons for the disabling?
I don't think so.

Over the past year I have watched an increasing amount of user accounts being disabled for no reason. Ironically the link on the box that Facebook provides goes to a page with no direct contact information to assist the user in getting the account reinstated.

Think about it. Social networking at this scale is still quite a new thing and at the end of the day it's the managers that decide on an appropriate mathematical forumlae to use to detect spam. But when three of my friends' accounts get disabled in one day, two of them PhD professors, one an international fashion photographer you have to wonder whether these managers know what they are doing and if facebook has the management intellect to keep up with itself.

Yes, I am fully aware of the terms of service. I've read it! Have you? You should... it is reasonably easy to understand. It's clearly been written to protect facebook at all costs at the detriment of its users' rights. Ok - I hear you - we choose to set up our profile accounts, mostly I think because there is not another option. We have been elegantly seduced into joining this site, with no rights to the account that we establish.
I start to question then, whether the implied duty of care that facebook thinks it should provide under the TOS and that which consumers now can reasonably expect to receive under the changing technology platform are two different things. At some point I am sure the courts will be asked to decide.

This will become very evident once facebook expands its credit system and becomes a money transfer conduit for facebook applications... and when money is involved the conversation changes completely.

Unless you, or a close friend have had your account disabled, most people don't care. It is time however, that we start to voice our concerns and our fears to those that can assist us getting this message out.

Please tweet this post, share it on your facebook, add your comments.
It's important that we express our thoughts and opinions while we still have a platform in which to do so!

69 kisses, syd.

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