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

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Thursday, September 4, 2008 Comments (1)

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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Made Sunday, 4 of January , 2009 at 9:15 pm

Agreed, Facebook is pretty useless in regard to connecting with others that you haven’t “shared air with”. I perform Social Marketing for clients and I always cringe when they want to include FB in their marketing plan. I recently had a client’s FB get shut down and I hadn’t even really done much with it. It was ridiculous.

They agreed to open the page back up but wanted us to set the profile to “private” so that no one we didn’t already know could find us…go figure.

Of course, they have the “fan pages” that they tell you to use for promotion now but I won’t get into that whole escapade.

Long story short, FB is useless and a PITA and I wish everyone would just quit using them. I also wish everyone would quit thinking they’re good for marketing – they’re not and it’s a waste of time.