What reasons could Facebook have for shutting down an account?

Beverly Level X³

October 5, 2012, 3:46 am

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What reasons could Facebook have for shutting down an account?

Some of my friends have complained that their accounts were shut down over seemingly flimsy reasons. Just wondering if there is a set of guidelines that determines which accounts get shut down and if possible what reasons are being used for account termination on Facebook.

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JamesDonovan

JamesDonovan

I don't have any idea regarding this. But may be that user making spamming other profiles or being report abusing by others.

12 years ago

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forever love

forever love

If you list a false name, you can have your account terminated. That's just one of the reasons, there are many others.

12 years ago

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Corzhens

Corzhens

I think if you use a false name you can only get your account deleted or suspended when someone reported you. Just recently there was a troll that was posting bad messages about my niece. What we did was to report the account and on the next day the account was deleted. We still have the private message that the account sent but the profile photo was not there anymore and the account is missing already.

6 years ago

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Unboxed

Unboxed

Facebook can delete your account for any of these reasons:

No human / names lie / double account
Use personal profiles for business
Post content subject to copyright
Importing too many RSS feeds
Business Promotion other walls (walls), pages or groups
Scraping information off facebook in other words, scrape or take information from Facebook
Add too many friends at once
Joining too many groups
Post the same message in too many walls
Post links (promotional or otherwise) on walls, posts, messages, …
Send too many pokes (touches) at a time.
And especially do not do spam social networking is to talk and that includes listening, understanding and sharing.

11 years ago

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Beverly

Beverly

Facebook can delete your account for any of these reasons:

No human / names lie / double account

Use personal profiles for business

Post content subject to copyright

Importing too many RSS feeds

Business Promotion other walls (walls), pages or groups

Scraping information off facebook in other words, scrape or take information from Facebook

Add too many friends at once

Joining too many groups

Post the same message in too many walls

Post links (promotional or otherwise) on walls, posts, messages, …

Send too many pokes (touches) at a time.

And especially do not do spam social networking is to talk and that includes listening, understanding and sharing.

Thank you for the comprehensive list. Does Facebook strictly enforce the rule about posting promotional links, such as if you are simply referring to a site you like, rather than actually profiting from it?

11 years ago

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America

America

Adding people you don't really know or who are just random, such as not even on the list of your friends. This can get your account muted, such as you won't be able to talk via PM or add people to friends list. Though I am not sure if it would result in a full ban. Maybe if you continued to add people you didn't know, even after warning.

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Barida

Barida

Sometimes some people accounts might be hacked without their knowledge and that is the bad thing on social media. I think before Facebook shuts down an account, they always give a warning and in most cases, state the reason for shutting down such accounts on their space.

7 years ago

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Corzhens

Corzhens

Based on the list above, it looks like doing things excessively in Facebook can get your account suspended or deleted. I have some friends who experienced having their accounts suspended for a week, 2 weeks and another was 1 month. From what I gathered, their accounts were reported with unknown reasons. To be honest, I had reported one account that is excessively spamming that it caused suspension of 1 week.

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