Like Facebook really cares…

Jan 14th, 2008 | By Steven Hodson | Category: The Social Web

I have 5 Billion reasons I don't care about why you got erased In what seems to be a continuation of his Che Scoble persona Robert Scoble is looking to become the voice for erased Facebookers. You know .. those folks who either have or haven’t done something to piss off the Facebook gods, and in turn had their accounts erased.

Zip .. Gone .. Never to have existed.

Since his *cough* expulsion *cough* from Facebook for running a script that scraped data that by their TOS was Facebook’s Robert has; following his reinstatement, been getting emails and phone calls from erased ones lamenting how their accounts were nuked for no apparent reason. In his post tonight he is encouraging these erased ones to contact him so that he can compile the info in the hope of bringing his status to bear on the problem:

Either way, there’s a lot of people out there who’ve been “erased” and who haven’t gotten the same treatment my account got for some reason (I was turned back on).

Drop me a line, or, better yet, leave a comment on this post.

Personally, Facebook should have a citizen review board where appeals of “erasure” could be taken and where a decent answer could be attained.

However much Robert may want to see himself as an arbiter for the erased ones the fact is that Facebook couldn’t give a shit if some person in Pakistan or someone in Canada or .. well pick any country you want … gets erased. As Tom Hodgkinson from the Guardian pointed out in a post Facebook is adding some 2 million new users each week. this is on top of a userbase of over 59 million people.

Robert might like to think he has a lot of pull in the tech blogosphere but don’t think they care about anyone else in the real world who they delete from their walled garden. Chances are that for every person deleted from Facebook there are thousands of sign-ups to take up the slack.

I agree that there should be some method by which the erased ones can seek redress but the chances of that happening are as about as likely as Zuckerberg getting a personality.

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    This is what I wrote to Facebook and they’re just not willing to comply which is really sad. I know you’re very busy and cant be bothered about peoples facebook accounts but please sort this problem out for me, its so annoying, I hope you understand mate.

    Dear Facebook, my account username is bugtiz@gmail.com and I just joined Facebook almost 4 weeks ago. I’ve many friends and I even emailed Facebook requesting them for an increase in my friends limit and 2 days ago my account was also disabled. I emailed facebook and they said that I misused the site (probably by adding too many people at one time or poking them). This isnt fair, facebook always temporarily disables a users account the first time for a day or two as an initial warning but with me the case is different, my account was disabled and now they’re not re-activating my account! Please help? I even said, if I made a mistake, I’m sorry, I’ll be much more careful next time but please re-activate my facebook account as I feel lost without it and I would like to start using it again. I worked so much on my facebook account to make it better and now its been taken away from me, I feel so lost and frustrated without it, you can understand. Please, reactivate my account so that I may start using it again, thankyou :(

    Can someone please pull a few strings and get my account reactivated again? Or, give me the contact numbers of Facebook so that I can call them up. Just direct me in the right way man, these guys just dont listen when you email them.

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