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 Facebook was at the start, a good thing. Better than Myspace because it did  not allow you to “overload” your profile with unneeded glitter packages that made someone with a 30 mb download speed internet seem like they still had dialup. You could hide your profile from sedarches and you could allow certain people to see certain aspects of your profile. Facebook within the past year has sort of, started to dictate what you could and couldn’t do. It seems their programming is a little biased as well. More and more people are getting their account disabled for no reason. The reason they recieved is excessive use, too much time spent on facebook and adding and or approving friends at a certain high rate. Criminals have figured a way to copy the chat program Facebook uses to contact users friends list to ask for money becuase they are in another country, like England, and needed money to get home because they have just been robbed.  Now if you join a certain group and Facebook determines that the group is a hack group, all memebers will their accounts disabled. And get this, Facebook will not  notify you if what you are doing is violating the ToS. How percieve excssive use and how they percieve excessive use are different and they still do not have the courtesy to let you know via email. That waym if you suspect your account has been compromised then you could take action before it becomes too late.

Then it happened to my wife. This past Saturday morning, my wife got a phone call from her daughter telling her that a common friend had recieved a chat message saying my wife was somewhere n the US in a hotel, been robbed and needed money to get back home. I had her to change her password then and to go thru her settings and such to make sure everything was fine. Nothing had been changed. About 6 hours later, my wife was told that her account was nowhere to be found. She got the dreaded dreaded disabled account message. We have been contacting Facebook everyday now with now reply other than the “thank you for the inquiry, we will look into it”  type message.

Hopefully  Facebook will get this bugged out system fixed. I understand that they are trying their best to filter out spamming and to make the site family friendly, but there is always going to be a few bad apples no matter where you go. I have read that people geting their account disabled because the added friends at a quick rate and I know a few that went from less than a 100 friends to over a 1,000 friends in a couple of months. I believe there was on report of a grandmother who played all day on facebook the application games and she was notified the reason her account was disabled because of excessive use.

Then it happened to my wife. This past Saturday morning, my wife got a phone call from her daughter telling her that a common friend had recieved a chat message saying my wife was somewhere n the US in a hotel, been robbed and needed money to get back home. I had her to change her password then and to go thru her settings and such to make sure everything was fine. Nothing had been changed. About 6 hours later, my wife was told that her account was nowhere to be found. She got the dreaded dreaded disabled account message. We have been contacting Facebook everyday now with now reply other than the “thank you for the inquiry, we will look into it”  type message.

I understand that they are trying their best to filter out spamming and to make the site family friendly, but there is always going to be a few bad apples no matter where you go. I have read that people geting their account disabled because the added friends at a quick rate and I know a few that went from less than a 100 friends to over a 1,000 friends in a couple of months. I believe there was on report of a grandmother who played all day on facebook the application games and she was notified the reason her account was disabled because of excessive use. Hopefully  Facebook will get this bugged out system fixed so Facebook can once again become more enjoyable. Right now, the chat hackers don’t need to access your Facebook page to use your chat. All they need is a 3rd party chat medium and you account login info.