Imagine Flirt olsztyn you wake up in the morning, you log into Facebook, and, out of nowhere, you’re told that your account has been disabled. While it’s not exactly a new phenomenon, it’s bound to happen more often as Facebook grows.
With 300 million users and counting, the reasons that the social network might put your account on hold are both mysterious and myriad: maybe you joined too many groups; maybe you wrote something that the bots deemed offensive or overly promotional; perhaps Facebook, from a programming side, thought you were misrepresenting yourself. As you can imagine, much of this is automated by the site’s infrastructure, a behemoth of coding that will obviously face greater pressure as the site adds more features, like last month’s new search function.
So why discuss this now? Well, basically, because it happened to one of our own. Cara Phillips, a photo editor for Newsweek, woke up this morning to a small orange box locking her out of her account. Since we’d rather not speculate, we’re just going to post her journey to reclaim her Facebook account. Here, a timeline of actions that you may follow if you get to social-networking Siberia:
10 a.m.: Our guinea pig wakes up, checks her Facebook account (which she uses to post personal information, as well as art and curatorial work) and realizes she’s been shut out. Continue reading “What Happens When Facebook Locks Your Account”