That's just crazy Joel!

I agree though, I'm going to have
to "re-align" my thoughts about a
serious facebook push.

Thanks for the heads up.

Hope it works out and they come to
their senses.

Davdi

That is a load of crap. I would be trying to call every number I found concerning facebook service.

I hope for the best for you and that they reinstate your account.

Good Luck!

Oh snap! That's lame sauce. I'm sorry for your loss. (That's what we're supposed to say in a situation like this, right?)

I love that you don't have enough room for your friends on Facebook, and I'm sacrificing mine for a Whopper. The irony is thick and juicy.

Joel

What a n'mare! - FB are infamous for this.

It also re-inforces the point that maybe we should all think about getting our people 'the hell offer the social networks' and onto our 'own platform'

Jerry

Joel quit being a trouble maker and you won't have these problems.

I do see the fun and value in FB, but what happened in the past for them to be restrictive?

I was on FaceBook when they did their partnership with CNN for the inauguration of what's his name... and the site ran smooth all day long. They obviously have the technical side down.

5000 friends doesn't sound like a lot these day's - I have only scratched the surface and would love to have this problem, and unlike you I don't cause problems... J/K

Have fun Joel
- Danny

Joel --

Can't believe it. Simply totally stupid on FaceBook's part. Wish I knew a few choice numbers for you to call.

If ANYONE understands spam and how to avoid sending it, it has to be you. They should come to their senses FAST or face the consequences of your pulling off FaceBook altogether.

Joel,

Once again I'm reminded of a few things:

1) Backup my data
2) Don't put all your eggs in one basket

Think of it this way, if 100% of your focus and activity was on Facebook. You're making good contacts and decent money and then the doors shut. For no reason and maybe your appeal falls on deaf ears.

A great business can be dead overnight without reason.

I've noticed this situation with a few people. If you send out to many Happy Birthday notes you can be banned or be deactivated.

I'm sure your appeal will be heard and the ban lifted!

IN CAPS SO PEOPLE WILL PAY ATTENTION. FACEBOOK IS NOT A GOOD PLACE TO BUILD A BUSINESS. PERIOD. I HAD A HUGELY SUCCESSFUL FAN PAGE FOR SINATRA, WITH OVER 100,000 FANS THAT GOT CUT OFF WITHOUT EXPLANATION. HOW MANY STORIES DO YOU NEED TO HEAR TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE BEST APPROACH IS TO CAPTURE TRAFFIC AND EMAILS AND GET IT OFF OF FACEBOOK IN AS FEW CLICKS AS POSSIBLE. THEY ARE NOT BUSINESSLIKE AND CONSTANTLY ABUSE THEIR BIGGEST SUPPORTERS AND TOP INFLUENCERS. FACEBOOK'S ANSWER TO OVER 5000 CONTACTS... GO BUILD A FAN PAGE - JUST WATCH THEM DELETE THAT TOO ON A WHIM. CAUTION.

Let me know if there is anything you want me to do to help you like signing a petition.

I have heard of many stories like this and I wonder if you have plans to create a more user freindly social media platform.

Hope it gets reinstated today.

Hi Joel,
As you well know, we are given these speed bumps or challenges as opportunity for growth in our lives / business... What is your opportunity to expand or grow in this situation? Big fan, keep up the good work! Robby

I told you you should of went with Obama :)
on the serious I do think you should DEFINITELY be reinstated :)
I was just looking on FB for a place to email to show some support.
Stumbled

Considering how many other FB horror stories I've seen and heard this actually doesn't surprise me at all. If FB wants to continue to grow and prosper they need to clarify and publish their rules and regulations. They need to make their rules and regulations reasonably specific then they need to hire reasonable, intelligent people to administer these rules. I've been involved in IT for well over 25 years and I've seen a lot of companies come from out of nowhere, get hot, get stupidly complacent and arrogant with their customers, then get blown out of the water by someone smarter. Anyone remember dBase and Lotus? It could happen just as easily to FB if they don't figure it out.

Yep, I've been booted from fb for simply mailing to several of MY groups with the same message. I had been doing it since becoming involved with fb with no problems at all. No harm, no fault as they were the groups that I created and all of our members opted in. I didn't overly promote a product or service, simply sending my weekly free training vids.

And without warning, boom. Took me 10 days for fb to bring me back up. Then after all of that, they STILL couldn't tell me why they booted me.

All I can say is... be careful! FB is trigger happy with their bots.

A great place to meet people, however has become a challenging place to do business.

Sending you lots of luv and positive energy Joel. Hopefully you'll be back up in no time.

Lastly, to support you in being more effective on facebook, I've created a free video training series. I'd highly recommend checking it out. Will save you lots of time, money, and frustration.

http://FacebookMadeEasy.com

Ennjoy!

t

Creating a Fan Page (Facebook page) seems to be the answer. You can have unlimited Fans and invite everyone to be a Fan, even those that are your friends. I was reading more about creating the Fan Page and found there are good reasons to have one for promoting your brand, product and/or business purposes. Mari Smith says that they are great for all types of businesses. You can create as many as you like. Also, your Facebook page will go to work for you as far as SEO.
A great 2009~

I wouldn't get too worried. It's probably an oversight as they've been getting all sorts of spammer issues lately.

You should be back in no time if you can get them on the phone - try one of the reps that was at ASW09.

A fan page is a good idea for the long term - FB should make it so that friend requests are auto responded to.

Anyway, I'll still be your friend :)

Yikes.
I am sorry sir, you can only have 5000 friends. You will be too powerful if you have more.
Oh, and by the way we will still shove hundreds of new apps down your throat daily, most of them nit fully checked out. (Hey we are busy watching you!)
Oh, and you better click on our ad links a minimum of 23 times a day or you will be in trouble.
Oh, and NO nipples. Just about anything else is OK, but we are really sensitive about moms breast feeding.
Oh, and we may invoke that 1 child per family rule, too.
Oh, and be sure to be confused when you are in an app and click on that spammy statement that '4 of your friends think you are ugly' or 'you have 2 marriage proposals'. We want you to be psychologically affected by our innuendos and thereby in control of your fragile mind.
Oh and we know everything about you in our data silos, so please pay the upcoming monthly FB subscription fee of $15.99 or we may 'sell' your data to the highest bidder on our new sister site face-bay.

Be careful.
Be discreet.
Be someone else.

And re-instate Joel!

Your account should and will be reinstated by Facebook. They have bots that suspend account when mass messaging occurs, to avoid spam, but always fix issues when they arise. In the meantime, the solution is to
build (or this case, grow) your Fan Page. That's what Fan Pages are for.
With all due respect, you don't have 5,000 friends, Joel. Neither do I and neither does anyone. You can have 5,000,000 followers on Twitter.
Followers are not friends.
Similarly, you can have 5,000,000 fans on Facebook.
Fans are not friends.
That's what fan Pages are set up for.
Here is an article I wrote on the differences:
http://tinyurl.com/ProfilesvGroupsvPages
Hope this helps!

Best, @DaveKerpen

CRM FAIL = "Facebook, yer doin' it wrong!"

Joel, you pump out great content. Have enjoyed you for ages, keep it up!

And I feel your pain. I had the exact same thing happen to me, but not for friend overload...for no reason whatsoever. I was pointed to the TOS, vigorously protested my innocence, as I'd spent two years building my former FB profile, always followed the rules and had over 900 friends that to date, are now lost. A friend that works with FB even went to bat with no result.

I'm rebuilding, but without the same loyalty to FB as I once had. Can you say "CRM Fail"?

My only reply, after weeks of asking, was from an employee that postulated that I had something "obscene" posted to my account. Obscene? ME? I'm a credible businesswoman, psychologist and training center director with a proven track record of value. "Obscene" was a shocker.

Another employee encounter said "You used your own name for your company. You can't do that, that's spam.". My company name is The Maryam Webster Group LLC. Kind of hard to avoid using my own name. And company name = spam? Who's driving the bus here?

As Bags posted above, lame sauce. Frank Abrams may be right. CRM fail.

My current strategy is to copy my list of friends and anything worthwhile they are posting/inbox emails to a file every few days. And keep a weather eye out as my stats prof in college quipped, expecting that past performance predicts best.

Hi Joel

Thanks for the warning. Although currently only at approx. 200 friends - a 120% increase since I began using Facebook regularly, it is important to be forewarned. It seems almost ridiculous that a 5,000 limit was set given the fact that internet users amount to about 1,3 billion users worldwide...

We will, as always, wait for things to settle and appreciate your straight forward explanations. :-)

Warm greetings

Henrik V Blunck
www.xr.com/henrik

Something similar happened to me. Then I discovered Twitter.

Cheers,

Scot McKay

I feel your frustration buddy, they disabled my account on January 12th. I sent them an email a day every day for 9 straight days and spoke with them by phone twice. On January 21st, nine days later, they re-enabled my account. I had actually logged into my MySpace account it was so bad. ;-)

I sent 12 "thank you" emails to people who requested my friendship (to only those who had sent me a personal message along with their friend request). I received a pop-up warning after sending the 12th message so I ceased doing that immediately. I then proceeded to my FB in-box to reply to messages and while replying to the 2nd message in the list, I received the pop-up warning again and shortly thereafter (as in a few minutes later), my account was disabled. They disabled my account because I replied to a message I received from one of my friends on their site... not a very wise way to use an abuse prevention filter IMO.

Despite what people may think, Facebook is NOT business friendly. They are in the entertainment and advertising industries and do not appreciate others trying to ride their coattails. If they find that you are using your account for business, it WILL get zapped, be warned. Same for groups, do NOT use Facebook for business in any way shape or form because any success you attain from doing so will be built upon sand and will soon be washed away.

Here's a few highlights of their email to me on January 21st...

"Facebook has limits in place to prevent behavior that other users may find annoying or abusive. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with the specific rates that have been deemed abusive. While using the message feature, keep in mind that it's possible to run into a block based on how many messages you send and how fast you send them. It's also possible to be blocked when either starting a new message thread or replying to a message. Please be aware that if your account is disabled again, we will not be able to reactivate it."

How nice it must be to have so much control and influence over others. Won't be long now before the government steps in and JV's with them... they have collected more data about more people than any other company/organization in history and all in record time. Couple this with the government archiving each and every phone call, text message and email you transmit and you'll start to see things from a different perspective.

My advice to you and everyone reading this is to use Facebook strictly for fun through creating new friendships. Keep all business off Facebook and restrained to regular communication channels like phone and email. Facebook has burned a lot of bridges and will continue to burn more until they re-evaluate their business model, I for one will no longer be endorsing them to my clients.

Sorry to hear about the "FaceBlock".

I tought FB was all about making frineds. Sad that they set a limit. What's next, getting banned for not having the "right kind" of friends?

Sorry to say that Facebook is free and with all free services, you have no control over anything. If you are using it as your primary way of doing business, which I know that you aren't Joel, then you are making a mistake. This is no different than if you are a successful blogger making a living off of one of the free blog services, you are asking for trouble.

It comes down to the simple point that Facebook can interpret their policies the way they see fit. They are the ones with skin in the game, no one else. Use it as a tool in your arsenal, that's it. If its your only tool or one of few, you are in trouble. . .

Joel,

Wow. I feel your pain.

I have over 350 pending friend requests, but have to ingore them. I'm at my 5000 limit. Some of those pending friends are literally sending me messages saying I'm being rude by not contacting them. I want to, but can't for fear of Facebook Admin.

All I want to do, just like you, is tell them -- "Look, I reached my 5000 friends limit. I'd love to stay connected. I've set up a Fan page (as strange as that seems to me). Here's link. Thank you for your understanding."

But there is no way to communicate this simply message to those fried requests.

Yes, Facebook NEEDS to address this. Or they may seem a migration of their biggest influencers. That's not a win/win for anyone.

Thank you for keeping up updated. Should you need an assist of any sort, holler.

-Art Jonak
@artjonak

Sorry you lost your FB account after reaching the limit. Wow!! You and Mari Smith and Problogger all in about the same timeframe. It's a problem I'll never have to worry about, but I do feel your pain.

What's wrong with a warning? Can't they do that?

I give you points for trying to do the right thing for your readers. Sorry that didn't turn out well for you. Seems like you couldn't win for trying.

Let's just hope your account is reinstated. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Please keep us informed.

I agree with you Joel. For Facebook to suspend your account for sending a polite reply to people wishing to be your friends is ridiculous.

To be honest I think you deserve an award for being such an avid user of facebook with so many friends! not being banned! Facebook should be ashamed for banning such a credible member such as yourself.

I have repeated this over and over again on twitter and elsewhere.

FACEBOOK or TWITTER or any such platform where you hang your life, is not yours. You don't have creative common rights. IF these entities go under, go belly up, or if they simply cancel your account one day, you have no rights whatsoever! You are out the door on the pavement in the middle of nowhere.

Only thing you can be sure of where you own intellectual rights to the property

Have I been banned? Oh yes many times and many places. I have learned never to be foolish again and move on.

Hey Joel,
That is crazy, and I have actually had warnings that my account could be disabled and I only have like 550 friends. I have 2 groups. I was not spamming them. Matter of fact now the only links I'll ever share is in the share links app and on occaision in my update status. So like you said people using FB should be "GunShy".

I hope they do the right thing too and reinstate your account!

Hi Joel,

it's a pity when someone who's absolutely honestly building his own presence with Facebook gets shut down!

I hope it'll soon be reinstated!

Marian

Hi Joel

I can see the problem right off the bat.

If your using the same message or doing alot of action on a single day your account will be deleted.

Facebook as built in alot of fail safes and filters making it harder for people that maybe spamming.

Not saying your are but I try and limit my actions to 30-50 a day.

More then that daily you are almost guaranteed your account gets deleted.

Actions included inviting , messaging , posting to walls and ect.

Be careful as you can image with all the work you put in can be lost in a day.

Robert Phillips

Facebook has some serious flaws to it. It is like they are being run by kids that were bullied and are now bullying back. I had a thriving page over there under my stage pseudonym which is what most people (sans close friends & family)and they pulled a similar stunt with me. Yet I see the silly little Angsty Emo fake names on some profiles but they don't have the amount of friends I had either. I now only use it for friends and family and have it completely private.

They are pulling the same thing as myspace, where you are allowed to sign up but not really able to interact. I know that is why many people moved over to FB and now they are pulling this.

I wonder if they have an app to shut themselves up. lol

They will be their own downfall.

I have seen this happen to some highly credible people who are very active in Social Media and providing much value. It certainly creates a feeling of discomfort knowing that something like that has happened and can happen to people without warning. I hope you receive some communication and reinstatement soon. Dulcita Love @dulcitalove

Joel take down those happy smiling pictures at once, at once do you hear me.

You need to look humble and truly sorry for your sins, facebook gods are all around us, that is how they know whether you've been naughty or nice

Well, congratulations on having that many Facebook friends; how many of them, though, were Invites that you received, vs. those that you sent out? And how many of them do you know? [lol ;-) ] Then again, from all the conferences, books, resources, etc..., I wouldn't be surprised if you did know most of them (or at least had had some contact). Anyway, I am about to purchase that DVD - I saw the ad, at the top of your blog.

I need help, in increasing my Adsense revenue!! (Am in between jobs right now ... and need all the residual income I can get!)

A similar thing happened to me:

http://www.profromgo.com/blog/holy-schnikes-facebook-thinks-im-a-spammer-disabled-facebook-account.html

I was disabled because I was sending friend requests to about 40 people or so who were in a group with me... They were exactly the type of people I hoped to network with so I sent friend requests along with messages to each of them.

I got one warning, that I didn't even have enough time to see, and then next thing I knew, BAM... disabled!

I was lucky enough to get my account back though. It took me awhile and a little bit of fussing but was well worth the trouble since I enjoy Facebook so much.

It's a major pain to get them to look at your account.

Here's a few tips:

* Send an email pleading your case to disabled [at] facebook.com

* Check out this page in the Facebook help center:

http://www.facebook.com/help.php?hq=disabled+account&ref;=hq

Hope that helps and hope to see you back soon!

-Chris Vendilli

I agree completely. It sounds similar to dealing with government. Never a pleasant thing.
Dave

It is clear to me that you have not accepted any responsibility in the matter. It is all FB's fault. You are just an innocent bystander...who got trumpled on. Besides,you are Joel Comm, why should you have to follow the rules....the rules are for the lackys.

Facebook is run my morons.

I ran a pinup calendar contest and just as the contest was ending I saw the same message you did Joel when I want to login.

What kind of HORRIBLE customer service is it to tell someone to read your FAQ so you can GUESS which matter was violated - no appeal?

What you lost, Joel, was a valuable resource, all those contacts and content - zapped.

I feel your pain,
Rick Butts

Facebook = AOL, the 2009 version. Because it's a closed system, they can do what they want. Beware of using it as a main business contact system.

That said, FB did it to the wrong guy, for sure. Best wishes to get your access back.

-davender

This is pretty weird. I've had the same problem with twitter. I have 2000 friends and they will allow me no more friends. I feel like a rude geek.

I can't be friends with more than 2000 peeps? What's with that?

Jan Verhoeff
http://janverhoeff.com

How annoying of Facebook to do this - you followed the rules, used Facebook as intended and haven't spammed.

Yet I get spammed all the time on Facebook - mainly bands, artists, DJs and promoters sending me daily messages about their next event... Even if my profile doesn't match their musical genre.

When I message them back I simply get a, "Oooh it's tough and we're trying so hard for success" type message...

Oh, the irony of you getting banned and others that should be banned not being so....

I hope you get your account back.

hi joel...thanks for the advice...i ran into similar problems and i am only at 1000 plus....lincoln

Hi Joel,

I had this happen to me but by Amazon.co.uk. I was a registered seller with them and I asked them to change my email address because their system kept crashing or rejecting the change (don't know why, just a crap system of theirs I guess!). Anyhow, this ended up with their admin person changing my email to garet at changingfortunes.co.uk instead of garetH at etc.etc. Result: some sales I made never got fulfilled. People got pissed at me and thought I was scamming them! I didn't even know 1. I'd made a sale and 2. they had paid me so how could I fulfill?

Idiots just kept sending email to the wrong address, which they'd created, and thus I didn't respond to their requests.

Result: LIFELONG BAN despite appealing (twice).

Best of luck with your issue on Facebook. These people really need a Google Slap!!! :o)

It's really troubling that more and more web services are just suspending users without giving them a warning first. I was recently suspended from Bluehost without any notice. I just went to my site and it said it was suspended. It's a simple blog, but what if it was a business website?

I hadn't done anything against their terms of service, there was just a plugin that sent a SQL query to my database which was a bit heavy (1 time only). They then immediately suspended my account. Looks like Facebook is the same when it comes to suspensions. No more warnings.

Hey you guys gals banned people one n'all ... well one thing for sure they are just like Google you can do your best by them ... then bhamm whamm thank you Man ... Not!!! I've just had they same thing happen to me with Twine ... account blocked with no explanation plus they have not even answered my emails asking why? ... I sure loved that Twine too ... Never mind though Joel plenty more social networks to build upon eh!

Onwards n Upwards
lets all join up together with Twitter B4 they get to big for there nest
Wilson Cowden

I can't believe it. Have you heard back from facebook yet? Keep us updated.

Thanks

It's not just Facebook. I had a similar problem with Plaxo-Pulse.. they suspended mu account, before notifying me that I had allegedly broek their rules. (Reinstated since). It's humiliating to be 'suspended' or 'banned' when you haven't broken any rules... or perhaps you might have, but they're so obscure you wouldn't know you have done so!

Joel,

Sorry to hear that. But we need to think about both sides of this argument.

I think Facebook are trying to do their best to keep people from using their network solely for business purposes. Obviously something you were doing flagged their attention, and based on how many users they have, I doubt whether they would sit their reading through your profile before they delete it - as you say, they just hit the 'off' button.

It is in their best interest to do it this way though. I am certain that most of the accounts that do something to flag their attention would in fact be accounts misusing the system. For this reason it is easier for them to just hit the 'off' button - then they only have to deal with the real and legitimate users who take the time to dispute their blocked account.

In their eyes you are messaging people who are not your friends. Yes, these people have requested to be your friend but at the time of messaging they are not a confirmed friend of yours - whether it be your fault or Facebooks. I think Facebook are right to flag accounts doing this. After all, I who wants to be hit with nuisance spam messages all day on Facebook as well.

I am sure that when you present your case to them they will re-activate your account. Just remember that the only reason they would do something like this is because they think it will benefit the network as a whole - they are just trying to make a better network where everyone can interact without all the nuisance spam and businesses trying to flog their products - we get that stuff everywhere else on the Internet and Facebook is somewhere we don't need it so much.

I guess it's just another reminder that when you use any site on the Internet, you are playing by their rules and they can do whatever they want, whenever they want. I think we all put way too much time and trust into sites these days - the only sites you can ever be sure of are your own.

Why would they have a limit on the number of fans, its crazy for facebook to have a limit on number of fans

Does anyone ever read the terms of service? Here's a direct quote:

Termination

The Company may terminate your membership, delete your profile and any content or information that you have posted on the Site or through any Platform Application and/or prohibit you from using or accessing the Service or the Site or any Platform Application (or any portion, aspect or feature of the Service or the Site or any Platform Application) for any reason, or no reason, at any time in its sole discretion, with or without notice, including if it believes that you are under 13, or under 18 and not in high school or college.

So essentially it doesn't matter what you think or who you are. All big Internet entities are essentially the same when it comes to dealing with the masses. No one individual matters very much.

Hey Joel,

Man, that really blows. I can't imagine all the work you put in to getting 5000 friends the legitimate way and you get penalized for it. I think Facebook is suffering from severe growing pains. They probably have someone sitting behind a desk making 6 bucks an hour and just figured you must have cheated to get that many friends.

Hope they re-instate your account Joel.

Later,
Jeff Sargent

They don't have a limit of the number of fans you can have - Joel is talking about friends. And he is not saying that having too many friends was the reason he got banned.

I dare say if he only had 20 friends but was still sending messages to unconfirmed friends his account would still have got banned. The amount of friends he has is not the issue here - it is the messaging of those who are not his friends.

Facebook keep a tight eye on who and how frequent you message people. The moment your usage of messages becomes irregular they will flag your account and possibly delete it.

Joel.

How does someone of your stature get banned. Was it the fact that you had 5,000 friends for the fact that you 'engaged' with your friends and their requests to be YOUR Friend. This doesn't appear to be spammy to me! Social Media seems to slap the hands of those that abuse AND those that are successful with social media's actual intent to promote networking.

Just my thoughts.

Sincerely,

Daniel Tetreault.
Sidney, BC.

Relying on any 3rd part system on the web for business is dangerous. Years ago I had a significant presence on the original Webring system. They sold out to Yahoo. Everything seemed fine and dandy and Yahoo ran the system just like it always had. They one day the TOS changed and every ring manager was locked out of their ring admin system. Yahoo decided that all those ringnames, logos, email addresses and member sites were THEIR property. In fact all that data belonged to each Ringmaster who had created their ring, made the artwork, advertised their ring on their personal site and had invited and approved each member. Or at least they THOUGHT it did.

If you read the TOS of all the popular "free" to use systems like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter. . . Once you post something on their server, it belongs to THEM. Your art, you photos, your writings. Its a BAD way for you, the use to operate a business. If they decide to lock you out of your account you have no recourse and your "stuff" is now their's to control. In fact, they count on that happening.

I moved my Webrings to a system I host on my server. I operate my own forums and galleries where others can post messages and images. If ANY of this is important to you as a business you don't give it away to others.

There are literally hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of abandoned web sites (or sites the "owner" cannot get into for some minor reason) on free hosting systems run by angelfire, Yahoo and many others. THEY DO NOT CARE. All those sites are indexed, generate traffic and thus advertising revenue.

Think hard about basing any part of your business that you might depend on by putting it on someone else's system. Sure, USE them (the newest hot thing) to drive traffic to your sites. But do not give them your entire inventory or expect them to give you a free ride forever.

Joel,

I had this exact same thing happen to a friend of mine a few weeks ago. He complained to facebook and eventualy got is account reinstated. I don't think it was an easy process on his part. Once his account was reinstated, he had to start out brand new and had to send out a new request for people to be his friend again. He put out a message on twitter to everyone with an apology and asked everyone that was his friend on facebook to please add him.

I think facebook should reevaluate their policies. They are missing out on something very valuable here that could make them money. I use facebook as a way to keep in contact with distant friends and realatives, as well as keep them all informed when I have posted something new on my website.

Good luck to you.

Jannah

Facebook is sounding more like Google (adwords) everyday.. We as marketers put out all the work/effort to promote/use/recommend their services .. and then without warning BAM ! you're out, with no explanation or apology.....

Happened to me with Adwords owing me many thousands of dollars... One day without reason or warning.. BAM! Account canceled..

Like you on Facebook Joel.. All was legit and above board......

Oh well.. live and learn..

Anymore I never put all my efforts into one service/program but have "MSR" "Multiple Streams Of Resources" so I don't get taken down by the "Facebook Slap"... Google Slap" .. etc

Unreal. Is this kinda like internet communism? So for 3 strikes and you're out. Sounds to me like on fastball to the groin and its: Game Over.

C'mon Facebook..get real (and get over yourself). No site is infallible, not even yours.

PS. Hope that comment doesn't get MY account suspended!

Best to you Joel, I'm sure they'll do the right thing.

Hi Joel

It is a disgrace to penalise a loyal supporter in any industry, sport, fan club or whatever. Is there any way that we as your supporters may lodge a petition to FaceBook to change this brutally unfair practice?

Regards

Georg

Systems have limits: they do not wear a human face or heart. Facebook Admin should have contacted you or at least give you a warning about that. Having friends should not have a limit. Perhaps you should stick to what you do best: blogging!

Maybe You Should check this site out Joel,

This site was created for just what we are doing.
They beg for the members and free advertising/networking
Its a great concept They are just starting a bit slow, Ive been a member for a couple of years. Its worh a look, We could Blow this site up in a great way I think.

Below is Text from the home page (or just click on my name in here) Go through everything and see what ya think. They were even having a contest to see who could "take over the site/not buy it" for free. Maybe you? ;-) They tried so hard but i think personal things are happening. Someone could really have a hugly profitable site here! (Dont know if they found anyone yet tho.

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That has got to be one of the ugliest sites I've ever seen.

I think the designer is stuck in 1995.

LOL! Hey I didnt say it looked good! (you have a choice of what Theme you want to see it in, But yes what They chose sucks) I just like the Idea/concept! Obviously they have problems. Was Just a thought if someone else wanted to get it and do what they wanted. "sorry" ;-(
Dawn

It's hard to believe that this happened. But then again, this problem seems to be common, when it comes to the guilty until proven innocent syndrome that seems to exist these days. Especially in the technological realm and in the online social media world.

So I'm curious is there an update to the problem yet? Have you solved it?

If so, there is a new app that has just been released that you might be interested in. It's a texttochat application that is built into Facebook and the probably the first opportunity to make money from an app on Facebook. You might want to check it out: http://links.4ligo.net/brklj

Hope you get this solved.

Justin

It's time for a digital bill of rights, these kid of policies limit peoples freedom of expression. It shouldn't matter that these are commercial sites, they advertise and pose as digital public squares; people should have the same rights they would have walking on the street or in a public square or park.

Remember we the People run this society, not the corporations. Freedom of association and of communication are our most important basic rights. Younger generations are becoming ever more dependent on technology to express these basic natural rights, if we don't guarantee them for posterity you can be sure that future generations will be at the mercy of corporate overlords and Democracy in America will just have been a dream.

Hi Joel,

What a liberty - We started a local networking site in Galway, Ireland but it is open for members from anywhere and unlike Facebook we welcome new members, with no restrictions on how many members and all the stupid rules that Facebook are coming up with.

So why not take a look and come and join our user freindly community would love to see anyone there.

The link is my name above above

All the best

Mike Russen

I've received warnings from Facebook, telline me that my activity looks like spamming.

When I don't log in for a couple of days, the friend requests add up. I do like you did, I send an introductory message just before I accept them.

I do try to personalize the info. Change it up. But it's pretty standard issue. There are only so many things I can say, & like you I redirect them to my goLIVEmiami Facebook group or Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Go-Live-Miami-goLIVEmiamicom/55751212615

Thanks for the article. Glad you got reinstated. I've heard of nightmares with Fbk and YouTube.

I too have received several warnings from Facebook about trying to make friends too fast. If the purpose of the site is to find people that you have not connected with in years, I don't understand why the limitations. I had almost 200 people in my graduating class and about half are on Facebook. In college I belonged to a sorority (another 100 friends or so)..I also wanted to add family members, friends and neighbors.

Today, I received a personal message in my e-mail account that I was not using the account properly. They listed a contact e-mail for me if I had any questions. I am currently awaiting their reply.

My account has not been suspended...yet. I guess I will just have to wait and see what happens.

I had the same troubles with Facebook with the "shoot first ask questions later". They set things straight, but I had to expend more effort than they did. They acted as if they'd done nothing wrong even though I followed the "rules and guidelines". It can be very frustrating.

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

Facebook is like ......

Joel you have created soo many websites why dont you create your own social networking site!!..its very easy their are tones of script available in the internet!!!
Grab the one you like and create your own social network!!!...People like you would have 10,000000 Friends!!! and Fans Of course..

I hope you love my idea!!...
Let me know if you create one...(Social Network)
if you want me to find the script for you then feel free to contact me.

Thanks

Regards,
Mascobz

Wow! what a good problem to have

I was warned a couple weeks ago for posting to groups and was warned once for adding fans to fast...Crazy

You don't have 5000 friends. You have 5000 people that you may have met in your life but you don't have 5000 friends.

They were due to cut off the 5000 friend limit this year, does anyone know if this happened?

Thanks

I would have to say 5000 friends is a high number to have for friends. I am sure no one can keep track of a 1,000 friends let alone 5,000. People using it as a way to market themselves should just create fan pages that way there is no limit.

i have been disable from facebook pass 4 days,i have been complaining facebook about it pass 3 days but i have not receive an answer from them.please help me to get my account back...