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Facebook Disabled My Account

Robert Scoble was kicked off Facebook 'for running a script'. Later that day, he discovered dataportability.org and became a convert to open social networks. He writes, "I am working with a company to move my social graph to other places and that isn't allowable under Facebook's terms of service." This, I think, is a pretty clear message from Facebook to the effect that it thinks it owns your data. Interestingly, it deleted Scoble's account from its system - as he notes here, Facebook can delete your information if it wishes. Interestingly, this now provides a resolution for the people who were unable to get off Facebook. Also, there's more here where he reveals he was using Plaxo Pulse. He comments, "It's ironic that you can import your Gmail address book into Facebook but you can't export back out." Steve O'Hear also comments, "the resistence of Facebook, MySpace, Google and most of the leading players in the user data space to offer easy data portability (I can't even backup my gmail with a simple one-click) is based on an old fashioned notion that lock-in is the best way to protect a strong market position." Robert Scoble, Scobleizer, January 3, 2008. [Link] [Tags: Books, Networks, Google] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Facebook Disabled My Account

Anymouse, January 4, 2008

Maybe I misunderstand, but if you use POP to connect to GMail, can't you tell it to download all of your messages? (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13291&topic=12812) If so, isn't that a way to back up all of your mail quickly? It's not one click, but it's certainly not lock-in either. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Facebook Disabled My Account

Anymouse, January 4, 2008

YOu can also use Gspace to make any backup you want of data hosted on Gmail. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Facebook Disabled My Account

Anymouse, March 13, 2008

facebook disabled my account:(:(:(:(:(
what can i do:(:(:(:( [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Facebook Disabled My Account

Anymouse, April 20, 2009

I would recommend you to visit a website called FacebookDisabled.com. It explains in detail on how to get back your account. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Facebook Disabled My Account

Anymouse, April 25, 2009

do not go to facebookdisbled.com, it just spins its wheels and leaves you staring at yourself in your monitor [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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