I have been an active member on for a good year now and yesterday (Tuesday 25th February) I had my account disabled by an administrator.
Since September of last year I have been using facebook alot more and have made quite a few pages and groups for various things that we do. Facebook ALLOW users to create fan pages and groups for more or less anything and do not charge a penny. They have given businesses the chance to promote themselves too which I have been doing for some time now.
It has not had that much of an effect on us as a business, its definately helped spread the word about the things we do but in no way have we seen any financial gains. With over 2000 people on my friends list, the majority of them being from the modified car scene I feel upset that facebook have banned me for this. Surely this is what social networking is all about? Adding people, making new friends, networking with people who have the same hobbies as you?
I have emailed facebook three times now asking why they have removed me and to try and find out how long until my account can be accessed again. I have lost ALL of my pages, one of which had over 60,000 people registered to and has had alot of time spent on it.
There is still not a reply in my inbox and I dont see them sending me one to be fair. I have emailed the BBC, ITV, Sun, Daily Mirror, Express and a few other newspapers with a little story for them, hopefully someone will pick this up and do some kind of article. I am not happy with being banned not to mention the other people this has happened to.
What people do not realise is that every time they log onto facebook, create a new group or page that they are infact making facebook MORE money and increasing the whole facebook network, me for one has done a hell of alot on there and must have generated facebook millions more page impressions.
Fingers crossed that something will happen soon, either my account is reactivated or someone for the press contacts me…..