Deleted Account by the Facebook Police Part 2: The Drama Continues

Writing by Maciej Fita on Thursday, 4 of September , 2008 at 11:09 am

I had recently written a post about Facebook’s “new and improved” account deletion tactics on our social marketing journal which you can read here, so just when I thought things where over they have started all over again.

Just to give you a brief synopsis on how useless Facebook is starting to become, and I don’t mean to go on a negative rant here but it is important for everyone to grasp this large swing in Facebook’s direction. After using Facebook for over year networking with other young professionals in the community consistently joining groups and taking time to meet others related to my interests and actively building up my profile with a healthy amount of professional contacts, which mind you is what I thought was one of the points of “social networking” the Facebook police has decided to shut my new account down that I launched right after the prior one got shut down which is only about 15 days old. Let me tell you my former account got shut down because I did too many friend requests, now I know what you are thinking because I thought this as well. Isn’t the whole point of social networking is to meet others with like interests? Why would I join a social networking website and only connect with people I know, make no sense to me at all.

Definition of Social Networking according to Dictionary.com

Definition: the use of a website to connect with people who share personal or professional interests, place of origin, education at a particular school, etc.

With my new account I connected with a few people and let it sit because I had such a big distaste in my mouth for this new strategy that I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with the new account. The point I am trying to make here is that I totally agree with not abusing or spamming these powerhouse social networking sites but if I wanted to only connect with people I knew I would just pick up the phone and call them. If you are not allowed to connect with people you do not know than Facebook will eventually become useless. I have done some searches online and this has been happening to many others in the community. At this point I get more satisfaction out of using Google’s Orkut social networking site because they are not leaning over my shoulder making sure I connect with people that I have share air with before. Pretty soon Facebook will be requesting a blood test in order to connect with someone. Frankly, Facebook is really starting to generate some bad press for themselves with this new tactic. I’m not the only one this has effected, here is a link to another deleted Facebook account that will raise an eyebrow as well

For anyone out there who has had this happen to them please let us know. We are curious to hear your similar stories on this issue.

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