Posted on May 18th, 2009 at 2:26 am

Abusive Behavior on Facebook

I’m bored. So I want to try something weird, how many friends I can get in one night on Facebook, though I never interested in using social networking site, Friendster, MySpace, Facebook…

But after I add 20 friend or something, this message appeared: Warning! You are engaging in behavior that may be considered annoying or abusive.

This is the answer from Facebook (Marco Panzeri post it in this board):

“We have noticed that you recently received a warning from our system. You received this warning because Facebook determined that you were going too fast when sending friend requests, or because your friend requests were being rejected at a high rate.

Facebook aspires to be an environment where people can interact safely with their friends and people they know. Accordingly, we expect accounts to mainly reflect your “real-world contacts” and do not promote contacting strangers through unsolicited friend requests as they may be considered annoying or abusive. To prevent this type of behavior, Facebook has limits in place that restrict the rate at which you can use certain features on the site.”

Am I abusive? I know them. Ah, never mind. I should try something useful.

10 Responses to 'Abusive Behavior on Facebook'

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  1. Fran

    4 Jun 09 at 11:31 pm

    Yes, this exact message appeared on my screen every time I tried to get connected with my friends from high school. I thought the whole point was to “request friends and get re-acquainted?” When will this message go away. How do I get to the point where I wouldn’t be considered annoying?

  2. margjakob

    5 Jun 09 at 6:35 am

    Fran, I think it’s a system default and it won’t go away, at least for now. They also can’t lift the block for any reason. It will lift automatically by the system.

  3. sebassjoli

    14 Apr 10 at 8:21 am

    i got this message from facebook now 3 week ago my account was suspended this is because i try to add all my gmail & hotmail contact as friend, i use facebook for 3years i loss everything on facebook.

    anyony know how i can restore my account ?

    Your Facebook account has been temporarily suspended because our systems detected that you engaged in abusive behaviour.

    To regain access to your account, please follow these steps:
    1. Log in to http://www.facebook.com
    2. Follow the on-screen instructions

    You can find more information on behaviour that is not permitted on Facebook by visiting the following links:
    - Facebook’s Help Centre http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=421
    - Statement of rights and responsibilities: http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

    Thanks,

  4. margjakob

    14 Apr 10 at 9:15 am

    sebassjoli, sometimes it’s really temporary. Have you followed the steps? And you’ll have better answer at that Help Centre.

  5. sebassjoli

    16 Apr 10 at 1:52 am

    is not any step to followed i loging to my accout and get this message :
    ……
    Account Disabled
    Your account has been disabled. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page here.
    ……..
    i red everything from why facebook disabled accout to the policy.

    and cant see any steps

  6. margjakob

    16 Apr 10 at 2:14 am

    sebassjoli, there are so many user got this problem like here. Sometimes they can get it back by contacting disabled@facebook.com from the email address associated with the disabled account with a brief description of their issue. But some other have to let it go and make new account. That’s what I can say. Can’t help much.

  7. Allan Beish

    24 Apr 10 at 5:55 am

    We exploit the opportunity of this blog post to inform internet users about our effort to create a steady and fair environment for Facebook users. As you may already know Facebook Accounts are SUSPENDED with geometrical progress. We started a petition against this policy and we ask to unite your voice with ours to get the proper attention and rectify this issue with Facebook administration. Current social media editors at various magazines want to see that there is a certain interest before they create articles to their websites and/or magazines. To all readers and to blog owner we ask to support our petition here : http://FacebookDisabled.me (redirects to petitionspot) – Twitter : http://twitter.com/facebookpetitio . Thank you !!

  8. Eddie

    3 Jul 10 at 6:50 pm

    http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F94nr6R&h=9aeafIxoXSDuzrEWpDQKgH1qqCg

    This message was sent to me on facebook by a friend, but facebook is teling me it contains abusive content. What is it?

  9. margjakob

    3 Jul 10 at 7:18 pm

    Some site with copyrighted material, I think. It’s down now.

  10. Dave

    3 Sep 10 at 6:15 pm

    It’s a huge problem and it’s getting worse by the day.
    If you haven’t already, please join this page to voice your opinion about this problem.
    http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Stop-blocking-me-for-adding-friends-you-suggested-Facebook/127620077272467?ref=ts

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