So I was recently deleted from Facebook.
Like yesterday.

I was deleted for being a "spammer" because I was "using a feature of Facebook persistantly and rapidly."

But, then I was told that Facebook could not give me a reason why my account was disabled or which features I was using too rapidly. I did however receive warnings in the form of pop-up windows whenever I did anything, that my account could be disabled at any moment-- for the duration of that day.

Facebook seemed to think that every message I wrote, every time I wrote on a friend's wall, and every time I used an application or talked in a forum, that I was "spamming" and I was told "your account could be disabled!"

I thought that this was a problem that I'd been wrongly accused of spamming, so I wrote the e-mail that the pop-up warnings instructed me to, if I thought I'd received these warnings in error. Immediately afterwards, when I tried to log in, I saw this screen (red circle added by me):



So they don't actually have a reason for deleting my account.

Later, I set up another account, "Asher WasDeleted" (I was going to say my full name was "Asher Hates Facebook" but they have filters). Because the email I used for this account did not have a college network associated with it, they make me fill out a word bubble form every time I do ANYTHING-- add a friend, send a message, write on somebodies wall, etc. There are single images of two words that you are supposed to type in. I was frustrated enough that I'd had my account deleted, ostensibly for political activism, when:




Democratic Scum? Maybe that's why I was deleted: for working for Dennis Kucinich? That was a single image. Those two words were NOT randomly paired.

So that's what Facebook thinks of Dennis Kucinich and I. Democratic Scum. Great.

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By the way, what I was doing on there was directing people to the Democracy For America poll at Democracy For America

Dennis Kucinich is now winning the DFA poll! Let's keep it up! We're only ahead of Barack Obama by two thousand votes. We're still at risk for losing our lead...





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