Why profiles keeps getting deactivated and reactivated

Facebook does need to keep a lid on social spam or else it could drive people away. But it sounds like Facebook is erring on the aggressive side of enforcing its policies. Even Guy Kawasaki once had his account temporarily disabled for being too enthusiastic in his evangelism. After the break are excerpts from disabled Facebookees who feel wrongly accused, including a graduate student, a middle-aged man in Australia, and an overly-chatty woman.

As far as I know, they all deserve Facebook banishment. Nevertheless, it is never good when angry customers start airing their complaints in public. I was permanently banned from the site yesterday for adding friends in the area that I have relocated to in Seoul, South Korea.

I am a graduate student at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea and do business consulting with major firms in Korea and actually an advocate for facebook but I have really been ill-treated by them. It is just mind boggling that I have brought hundreds of people to facebook only to be banned.

I am not soliciting or harassing anyone. But I have been banned for adding friends to my profile. I was disabled sometime last night Friday. But he said Facebook benefits from not breaking out data about the portion of audience estimates of active versus deactivated users. So, because the estimated audience numbers it provides for campaign planning only include people it has shown ads to in the past 30 days, that estimate effectively removes some deactivated accounts. This story came to be through the personal experience of your trusty reporter.

Years after deleting the Facebook app off an old phone and never using it again, I found myself downloading it in mid-September for story research.

I used an email address and password I thought would turn up that dummy account. Then suddenly, there it was, like some poltergeist: my old Facebook account. Or, so I thought. Somehow, Facebook had roused the thing like a monster disturbed from its two-and-a-half-year slumber. I am not exaggerating when I say the frisson was palpable when the spirit of my defunct profile showed up reinvigorated on my phone. I had no way of proving that back in I had intended to permanently delete this revived account.

While most everyday Facebook users might never get a direct response from the company regarding this sort of issue, I was in a privileged position as a reporter in regular contact with communications staff at the company.

The company would not provide any detail on how that would be represented in their internal data. People take a multistep process to both deactivate and delete their accounts. When they schedule an account for deletion, Facebook requires 30 days in which people cannot log back into the account before Facebook begins deleting their data.

As far as Facebook was concerned, not only had I never deleted that old account, I had now signaled my intent to return to the news feed. But this had been no temporary respite. Choose Deactivate Account, then Continue to Account Deactivation and follow the instructions to confirm. You can still chat with friends on Messenger.

Your Facebook profile picture will still be visible in your conversations on Messenger. Other people can search for you to send you a message within Messanger. You may need to contact the apps and websites to recover those accounts. Some information, like messages you sent to friends, may still be visible to them after you delete your account. Click Delete Account, enter your password and then click Continue. Your profile, photos, comments and likes will be hidden.

You can reactivate your account by logging back in. Log into instagram. Tap or click your profile picture in the top right and select Profile, then select Edit Profile.

Scroll down, then tap or click Temporarily disable my account in the bottom right. Select an option from the drop-down menu next to Why are you disabling your account?

Tap or click Temporarily Disable Account. Your account, profile, photos, videos, comments, likes and followers will be permanently removed. Deleted accounts cannot be reactivated. Go to the Delete Your Account page from a mobile browser or computer. Select an option from the drop-down menu next to Why are you deleting your account? Click or tap Permanently delete my account.

You may reactivate your account at any time during these 30 days by logging in to it. Mahmood and Desmedt argued that this type of covert Facebook snooping would be "attractive" to marketers, background-checking agencies, governments, hackers, spammers, stalkers or criminals. Because the perpetrator may only reactivate his account for a very brief period of time, the attack is also difficult to detect.

The researchers said the deactivation attack could be mitigated if Facebook notified users of their friends' deactivations and reactivations, or if it flagged accounts that frequently de- and reactivated. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.