Yes, Your Facebook Account Has Been Cancelled

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Everyday I get at least 10 emails from people saying that their Facebook account has been cancelled. Their first response is to e-mail Facebook but typically they never hear back. My guess is that if I’m receiving 10 emails a day, Facebook is probably receiving a few thousand at a minimum. It’s a big problem for the company as all the people emailing me claim that they weren’t spamming.

Last week I wrote that Lindsay Lohan had her Facebook account blocked. After complaining on her MySpace blog, Facebook eventually re-enabled the account but said that Lohan had clearly violated the terms of service but would not elaborate as to what exactly occurred. I reached out to a number of people to see what their experiences and got a mixed bag of responses.

Amiee Vongmongkol‘s brother had his account disabled shortly after joining. “To make a long story short [...] he had a lot of catching up to do with people from his 32 years of life.” As a result he was banned after adding too many friends. After sending Facebook an email, he had his account reinstated. Simon Lewis had his account disabled and then “sent facebook a ‘dont u know who i am’ email and they reactivated” his account.

While I’m sure Simon Lewis is an important person, I doubt that was the reason his account was given back to him. Sloane Berrent had her account cancelled after “posting too many items” to the marketplace in a short period of time. She also was able to get her account back. While most of the people that got in touch with me had their account turned back on, most people that email me on a daily basis never get it back.

Have you had your account shut down? Were you able to get it back? My guess is that a large number of people have their account automatically reinstated the first time around whereas the second time it’s a manual process.

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My account was disabled initially when I was responding to friends on their walls for their birthday wishes. The multiple messages had triggered off their spam filter. Second time around my account disabled for good. No particular reason was given, the same 'ol "violation of terms and conditions". Facebook can't be allowed to treat it's uses with such resentment.

Comment by Asim — December 9, 2008 @ 1:25 am
I hope they don't make their revenue goal. Facebook is officially the Grinch and ruined my Christmas by disabling my account a week before I took a trip and making it impossible for me to access my account, thus I was unable to access my contact information so I wasn't able to meet up with people I'd met on Facebook and planned to meet up with. I contacted Facebook several times about this and they ignored me and didn't put my account back up. This happened to another friend of mine which makes me think that it has been happening a lot. They lured me into using this product and then yanked it from me, the worst business practice I can think of.

Comment by Francesca Longoria — December 27, 2008 @ 5:13 am
So Facebook is still canceling members' accounts. I am afraid this might lead to their downfall. Some of these disgruntled members will quit Facebook completely and join rival social networking sites.

Some time in 2007, my Facebook account was also canceled.Upon querying them, they told me that they disabled it because I took repeated actions that had been construed as spam by the facebook system. I really did this because I was desperately looking for a particular piece of information. I resorted to sending the same message to different people on facebook to increase the probability of getting the information.

I am of the view that Facebook must come up with a better way of detecting spam. Disabling member's accounts like this will not help.

Comment by Clement — January 2, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
The first time mine was canceled, i was asked to send proof, i emailed a copy of my passport and was reactivated, 2 months later they canceled me for "spamming" which is funny, since i only use FB to play some social games, and i use the games internal feature to to invite friends to play with me, so i have no clue what "spamming" i did, ive sent them a couple of emails and heard no response yet.

Comment by Dafney — January 11, 2009 @ 11:40 am
Got a few questions.. What is the best way to add the friends of my FB friends without getting canceled by FB? How many friends are we allowed to add per week/month/year? What are their rules as far as canceling a member? How many "notes" or photos can we add per month too? I never want to spam people, but what FB email address do we use to beg ..if they do kick us to the curb?

Comment by Kurt — January 19, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
facebook cacelled my account one year ago and i can´t use my mail still…

i can´t believe it

Comment by cholinho — February 15, 2009 @ 8:26 am
ma facebook has been canceled 2day but i dunno why i rly need it back help me plz

Comment by Kel — July 26, 2009 @ 1:16 pm
My account was 'disabled' this morning. I've only been on FB for 6 months. I am not using it for business purposes, am not spamming (although I have experienced many taking advantage of this opportunity over and over), I am not shoving my political views down anyone's throat, am not vulgar and only have 163 friends connected to me. I've been out of work for a year now and strictly use it for social purposes. Isn't that the intent? FB seems more 'selective' than anything else.

I was not given an explanation after sending an email questioning this action.

Their 'terms' seem to be very much of convenience. I'm disappointed with this 'big brother'. If you're going to watch and monitor – do it fairly.

Comment by jacqueleen — July 29, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
i have had my facebook account closed not got a clue why i have my pictures of my kids on there and this has never happened before so could someone tell me why it has been closed and who can sort the problem and how to find them please.

Comment by daniel pheasey — September 16, 2009 @ 1:08 am
This is the second time I’ve been cancelled. The first time, I received no response. So I set up a new account under a slightly modified name. Now I’ve been disabled again. I hardly used it, but they’ve decided to cancel me anyway. I’m trying not to get worked up about it, but it’s hard not to.

Comment by Nathan — October 5, 2009 @ 4:56 pm
aol canceled my account stating the words "illegal and advertisement. Therefore I have been unable to access my facebook account. Of course I have contacted facebook via email & pony express but to no avail. I am still locked out of facebook because my aol account was the access account.

I have just today 6 weeks later set up a yahoo account but all that does is get me back in touch with my friends I had an address for.

Comment by Adelia Bush — October 12, 2009 @ 1:08 pm
My account was cancelled because my roommates thought that it would be funny to change my birthday. I was soon after unable to access my account because I was under 13. Im actually 18 and was over 13 when I started my account over two years ago. I emailed them back explaining the situation but that was only a few days ago. Any input on my situation? Does it look really bleak or am I overly nervous?

Nic

Comment by Nic Blenich — October 30, 2009 @ 10:13 am
I am not being allowed to log into my account because my email is “invalid.” I changed my log in email from my school email (weinerm@dickinson.edu) to my personal email address (miriam.b.weiner@gmail.com). I never had any problems until a week ago when I tried to log in. I reported the problem and received an email back telling me that there was no account registered to my address (although it is listed in my contact information). When I tried on Monday, I was automatically signed into my account, and I thought the problem was fixed, but when I went to change my password just to be safe, I was kicked off the site and the “Invalid Email” error note flashed again. I have been reporting the problem every day since then, but have yet to hear anything. I would really like to be granted access to my account (and the information in it) again. I haven’t ever violated the terms of use.
Thank you,
Miriam

Comment by Miriam — November 20, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
I had my account disabled twice. Both times I wrote an email and had the account reactivated. I wrote an article about how it got reinstated. Read it here: http://www.marknetgroup.com/blog/?p=72

Comment by Alex — December 9, 2009 @ 4:38 pm
I've had several FB accounts cancelled for no valid reason, and no proof of what they said I did (which I did not) was ever proffered. I am going to try to bang my way back in.

This would be better if it was a public company.

Comment by Tim — January 20, 2010 @ 6:45 pm
my facebook just got canceled, i only had 13 friends on there, and only used yoville, so why would they block it. I guess that their trying to promote myspace, by the way myspace never delets your acount for no reason

Comment by trevor — February 8, 2010 @ 8:44 pm
Hi,

My Facebook account has been disabled by an administrator?

My account was disabled , i have no idea why. The only thing i do that the face book ask me to send an invitation to all your friends so i send and the face book get all my friends from the MSN live Messanger and send to them all and as i remember it was 131 friends i think so after that i left the account log on . i was trying to log on the account today but i was useless trails ,Please can any one advise me of what to do ?? or how i re-active my account. How long does it take to get a reply from facebook team ?

Thanks and regards

mostafa ashraf

Comment by mostafa — February 24, 2010 @ 8:10 am
Hello there,

can you please advice me how to cancel my facebook.

Thank you.

Marta

Comment by Marta — March 26, 2010 @ 11:22 pm
Please delete my facebook account, I'm no longer interested. Thanks

Comment by jill meredith — March 31, 2010 @ 8:43 am
rough ending a relationship but we must end all contact between each other

Comment by david moncada — April 3, 2010 @ 9:38 pm
could u cancel my facebook account

Comment by samhung — April 6, 2010 @ 10:13 am
I WANT TO LEAVE FACEBOOK ALL TOGRETHER, DONT WANT TO GO ON WITH FACEBOOK ANY MORE, SO PLEASE CLOSE ME DOWN,

Comment by paul bolton — April 6, 2010 @ 12:28 pm
i put my status as " people are saying that the christ has resurrected" , and what happens? after 4 years on fb , respecting all rules , reporting every violator , and making an official network for my university , they disable my account without any warning at all!! i never had any warning , neither violated any term!

i contacted them , they said the decision is final.

Comment by Mj — April 11, 2010 @ 3:44 am
I want my facebook account cancelled. How do you do that?

Comment by Ann — April 19, 2010 @ 9:23 pm
I DIDN'T GET ANY WARNING ON MY ACCOUNT NOT EVEN ONCE, I NEVER BOTHERED NO ONE AND I NEVER MADE ANYTHING WRONG REGARDLESS OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, AND I DIDNT GET ANY EXPLANATION EXCEPT THAT THE DECISION IS FINAL, WHERE DO U THINK U R LIVING , IN A DICTATOR REGIME ???

I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO SEND MAILS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS PREVENTING THEM OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN SOON TO ALL THE ACCOUNTS , AND I SUGGEST TO START BACKING UP ALL OUR INFOS THERE CZ IT SEEMS THEY WONT HOLD LONGER, AND IT WILL BE A HUGE CRASH ON THIS SITE, ANY OTHER SITE TO SUGGEST WITH BETTER SUPPORT ?

VLAD.

Comment by VLAD — June 21, 2010 @ 1:30 am
I had my account canceled today, with no warning, no reason at all… Never did anything wrong, at least I think so! I've emailed facebook to this address: disabled@facebook.com and I'm still waiting for their answer. I couldn't believe when I saw that my account was disabled…

Comment by caixamagica — June 28, 2010 @ 11:53 am
face book is my life. i am sorry for anything i hvave done please forgive me.i have peole that i am only able to contact through facebook.

my life has also been disabled since my facebook account.

It will be a golden pleasure if my account is enabled.

Thanks

yours sincerely

Comment by Akindele Adeshina St — July 18, 2010 @ 12:46 pm
plz cancelled my facebook account

Comment by rupali — August 1, 2010 @ 9:24 pm
it seams like i am blocked from facebook i need help to get back on for my sister and friends i have ms and in home 24 hrs a day i need to speck to them help please

Comment by barbara viola — August 15, 2010 @ 12:41 pm
Your page is not a report about that

Comment by sol — February 23, 2011 @ 6:59 pm
i want to stay out of facebook of couple of months.

Comment by subhasni — June 20, 2011 @ 2:45 pm
Why my account disabled? Can I get back my account……

name:Asif Fsd
id:friends.muslim@yahoo.com

plzxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me

Comment by asif fsd — July 26, 2011 @ 6:55 am
Why my friend account disabled? Can I get back my account……

name:Asif Fsd
id:friends.muslim@yahoo.com

plzxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me

Comment by asif fsd — July 26, 2011 @ 6:56 am
My account disabled aswell… Just spent over 116 000 euros to facebook ads and that is how they treat me…

No warnings, nothing…

Comment by blle — October 12, 2011 @ 7:34 am
I cancelled my Verizon Internet service and now have Comcast. Verizon cancelled my email address before I could change my email address on my Facebook account. Now I cannot login to Facebook. How can I regin my Facebook account?

Comment by Barb Jackowicz — January 27, 2012 @ 2:48 pm

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My account was disabled initially when I was responding to friends on their walls for their birthday wishes. The multiple messages had triggered off their spam filter. Second time around my account disabled for good. No particular reason was given, the same 'ol "violation of terms and conditions". Facebook can't be allowed to treat it's uses with such resentment.

Comment by Asim — December 9, 2008 @ 1:25 am

I hope they don't make their revenue goal. Facebook is officially the Grinch and ruined my Christmas by disabling my account a week before I took a trip and making it impossible for me to access my account, thus I was unable to access my contact information so I wasn't able to meet up with people I'd met on Facebook and planned to meet up with. I contacted Facebook several times about this and they ignored me and didn't put my account back up. This happened to another friend of mine which makes me think that it has been happening a lot. They lured me into using this product and then yanked it from me, the worst business practice I can think of.

Comment by Francesca Longoria — December 27, 2008 @ 5:13 am

So Facebook is still canceling members' accounts. I am afraid this might lead to their downfall. Some of these disgruntled members will quit Facebook completely and join rival social networking sites.

Some time in 2007, my Facebook account was also canceled.Upon querying them, they told me that they disabled it because I took repeated actions that had been construed as spam by the facebook system. I really did this because I was desperately looking for a particular piece of information. I resorted to sending the same message to different people on facebook to increase the probability of getting the information.

I am of the view that Facebook must come up with a better way of detecting spam. Disabling member's accounts like this will not help.

Comment by Clement — January 2, 2009 @ 10:59 pm

The first time mine was canceled, i was asked to send proof, i emailed a copy of my passport and was reactivated, 2 months later they canceled me for "spamming" which is funny, since i only use FB to play some social games, and i use the games internal feature to to invite friends to play with me, so i have no clue what "spamming" i did, ive sent them a couple of emails and heard no response yet.

Comment by Dafney — January 11, 2009 @ 11:40 am

Got a few questions.. What is the best way to add the friends of my FB friends without getting canceled by FB? How many friends are we allowed to add per week/month/year? What are their rules as far as canceling a member? How many "notes" or photos can we add per month too? I never want to spam people, but what FB email address do we use to beg ..if they do kick us to the curb?

Comment by Kurt — January 19, 2009 @ 3:24 pm

facebook cacelled my account one year ago and i can´t use my mail still…

i can´t believe it

Comment by cholinho — February 15, 2009 @ 8:26 am

ma facebook has been canceled 2day but i dunno why i rly need it back help me plz

Comment by Kel — July 26, 2009 @ 1:16 pm

My account was 'disabled' this morning. I've only been on FB for 6 months. I am not using it for business purposes, am not spamming (although I have experienced many taking advantage of this opportunity over and over), I am not shoving my political views down anyone's throat, am not vulgar and only have 163 friends connected to me. I've been out of work for a year now and strictly use it for social purposes. Isn't that the intent? FB seems more 'selective' than anything else.

I was not given an explanation after sending an email questioning this action.

Their 'terms' seem to be very much of convenience. I'm disappointed with this 'big brother'. If you're going to watch and monitor – do it fairly.

Comment by jacqueleen — July 29, 2009 @ 4:17 pm

i have had my facebook account closed not got a clue why i have my pictures of my kids on there and this has never happened before so could someone tell me why it has been closed and who can sort the problem and how to find them please.

Comment by daniel pheasey — September 16, 2009 @ 1:08 am

This is the second time I’ve been cancelled. The first time, I received no response. So I set up a new account under a slightly modified name. Now I’ve been disabled again. I hardly used it, but they’ve decided to cancel me anyway. I’m trying not to get worked up about it, but it’s hard not to.

Comment by Nathan — October 5, 2009 @ 4:56 pm

aol canceled my account stating the words "illegal and advertisement. Therefore I have been unable to access my facebook account. Of course I have contacted facebook via email & pony express but to no avail. I am still locked out of facebook because my aol account was the access account.

I have just today 6 weeks later set up a yahoo account but all that does is get me back in touch with my friends I had an address for.

Comment by Adelia Bush — October 12, 2009 @ 1:08 pm

My account was cancelled because my roommates thought that it would be funny to change my birthday. I was soon after unable to access my account because I was under 13. Im actually 18 and was over 13 when I started my account over two years ago. I emailed them back explaining the situation but that was only a few days ago. Any input on my situation? Does it look really bleak or am I overly nervous?

Nic

Comment by Nic Blenich — October 30, 2009 @ 10:13 am

I am not being allowed to log into my account because my email is “invalid.” I changed my log in email from my school email (weinerm@dickinson.edu) to my personal email address (miriam.b.weiner@gmail.com). I never had any problems until a week ago when I tried to log in. I reported the problem and received an email back telling me that there was no account registered to my address (although it is listed in my contact information). When I tried on Monday, I was automatically signed into my account, and I thought the problem was fixed, but when I went to change my password just to be safe, I was kicked off the site and the “Invalid Email” error note flashed again. I have been reporting the problem every day since then, but have yet to hear anything. I would really like to be granted access to my account (and the information in it) again. I haven’t ever violated the terms of use.
Thank you,
Miriam

Comment by Miriam — November 20, 2009 @ 1:35 pm

I had my account disabled twice. Both times I wrote an email and had the account reactivated. I wrote an article about how it got reinstated. Read it here: http://www.marknetgroup.com/blog/?p=72

Comment by Alex — December 9, 2009 @ 4:38 pm

I've had several FB accounts cancelled for no valid reason, and no proof of what they said I did (which I did not) was ever proffered. I am going to try to bang my way back in.

This would be better if it was a public company.

Comment by Tim — January 20, 2010 @ 6:45 pm

my facebook just got canceled, i only had 13 friends on there, and only used yoville, so why would they block it. I guess that their trying to promote myspace, by the way myspace never delets your acount for no reason

Comment by trevor — February 8, 2010 @ 8:44 pm

Hi,

My Facebook account has been disabled by an administrator?

My account was disabled , i have no idea why. The only thing i do that the face book ask me to send an invitation to all your friends so i send and the face book get all my friends from the MSN live Messanger and send to them all and as i remember it was 131 friends i think so after that i left the account log on . i was trying to log on the account today but i was useless trails ,Please can any one advise me of what to do ?? or how i re-active my account. How long does it take to get a reply from facebook team ?

Thanks and regards

mostafa ashraf

Comment by mostafa — February 24, 2010 @ 8:10 am

Hello there,

can you please advice me how to cancel my facebook.

Thank you.

Marta

Comment by Marta — March 26, 2010 @ 11:22 pm

Please delete my facebook account, I'm no longer interested. Thanks

Comment by jill meredith — March 31, 2010 @ 8:43 am

rough ending a relationship but we must end all contact between each other

Comment by david moncada — April 3, 2010 @ 9:38 pm

could u cancel my facebook account

Comment by samhung — April 6, 2010 @ 10:13 am

I WANT TO LEAVE FACEBOOK ALL TOGRETHER, DONT WANT TO GO ON WITH FACEBOOK ANY MORE, SO PLEASE CLOSE ME DOWN,

Comment by paul bolton — April 6, 2010 @ 12:28 pm

i put my status as " people are saying that the christ has resurrected" , and what happens? after 4 years on fb , respecting all rules , reporting every violator , and making an official network for my university , they disable my account without any warning at all!! i never had any warning , neither violated any term!

i contacted them , they said the decision is final.

Comment by Mj — April 11, 2010 @ 3:44 am

I want my facebook account cancelled. How do you do that?

Comment by Ann — April 19, 2010 @ 9:23 pm

I DIDN'T GET ANY WARNING ON MY ACCOUNT NOT EVEN ONCE, I NEVER BOTHERED NO ONE AND I NEVER MADE ANYTHING WRONG REGARDLESS OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, AND I DIDNT GET ANY EXPLANATION EXCEPT THAT THE DECISION IS FINAL, WHERE DO U THINK U R LIVING , IN A DICTATOR REGIME ???

I THINK THAT WE HAVE TO SEND MAILS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS PREVENTING THEM OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN SOON TO ALL THE ACCOUNTS , AND I SUGGEST TO START BACKING UP ALL OUR INFOS THERE CZ IT SEEMS THEY WONT HOLD LONGER, AND IT WILL BE A HUGE CRASH ON THIS SITE, ANY OTHER SITE TO SUGGEST WITH BETTER SUPPORT ?

VLAD.

Comment by VLAD — June 21, 2010 @ 1:30 am

I had my account canceled today, with no warning, no reason at all… Never did anything wrong, at least I think so! I've emailed facebook to this address: disabled@facebook.com and I'm still waiting for their answer. I couldn't believe when I saw that my account was disabled…

Comment by caixamagica — June 28, 2010 @ 11:53 am

face book is my life. i am sorry for anything i hvave done please forgive me.i have peole that i am only able to contact through facebook.

my life has also been disabled since my facebook account.

It will be a golden pleasure if my account is enabled.

Thanks

yours sincerely

Comment by Akindele Adeshina St — July 18, 2010 @ 12:46 pm

plz cancelled my facebook account

Comment by rupali — August 1, 2010 @ 9:24 pm

it seams like i am blocked from facebook i need help to get back on for my sister and friends i have ms and in home 24 hrs a day i need to speck to them help please

Comment by barbara viola — August 15, 2010 @ 12:41 pm

Your page is not a report about that

Comment by sol — February 23, 2011 @ 6:59 pm

i want to stay out of facebook of couple of months.

Comment by subhasni — June 20, 2011 @ 2:45 pm

Why my account disabled? Can I get back my account……

name:Asif Fsd
id:friends.muslim@yahoo.com

plzxzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me

Comment by asif fsd — July 26, 2011 @ 6:55 am

Why my friend account disabled? Can I get back my account……

Comment by asif fsd — July 26, 2011 @ 6:56 am

My account disabled aswell… Just spent over 116 000 euros to facebook ads and that is how they treat me…

No warnings, nothing…

Comment by blle — October 12, 2011 @ 7:34 am

I cancelled my Verizon Internet service and now have Comcast. Verizon cancelled my email address before I could change my email address on my Facebook account. Now I cannot login to Facebook. How can I regin my Facebook account?

Comment by Barb Jackowicz — January 27, 2012 @ 2:48 pm

Yes, Your Facebook Account Has Been Cancelled

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