Facebook Restores Accounts Of 3 Critics It Mysteriously Deleted
from the don't-piss-off-facebook? dept
Apparently, three Argentines who worked on a book that mocks Facebook mysteriously had their Facebook accounts deleted in January. On top of that, a Facebook group of fans, who numbered in the tens of thousands, also disappeared. After the deleted profiles finally started getting attention, Facebook admitted it made a "mistake" and put the profiles back. The three individuals had been trying to get an explanation from Facebook for weeks with no luck -- and it was only when the press started picking up on the story that Facebook admitted its "mistake." Either way, it's a reminder that what you do on Facebook can disappear in an instant based on the company's whims.
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There I corrected it for you.
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Facebook's stupidity
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Facebook's stupidity
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How is it clunky? un-user friendly? etc
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Two rules of the internet...
2. Anytime you put information out on the internet and want everyone to know about it, it will disappear overnight without any warning and without any explanation.
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Ah Never mind.
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Is this a surprise?
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I love this argument because of its pure ridiculousness.
"If you don't like something, stop complaining and go do your own thing."
Spoken by someone who absolutely hates our site. He, SWAKWHTA, why not take your own advice:
"If you don't like Techdirt, go out and make your own blog. Techdirt is not AT&T here that has a natural monopoly over other blogs. There are countless other blogs."
And yet.. here you are, day in, day out, complaining. Hypocrite.
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showing that you are inexperienced, untrained, and in it for the sensationalism isn't complaining. it's actually pretty fun. hell... even maddox realized this years ago. when you bitch and complain and tell everyone else that they're wrong, your position better be unassailable.
and before you respond "you should look in the mirror!" or something like that, you need to remember that you are the one complaining about the way things are.
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This amuses me. The more we prove you consistently wrong, the more you resort to out and out insults. Very convincing.
these aren't even fractionally paralleled
Heh. Wow. I really don't know what to say if you honestly think that it's not okay for us to point out something that is wrong with what's happening, but it's fine for you to do it -- and then say that the situations are not the same. I'm speechless. The situations are clearly parallel. But apparently you didn't think I'd call you on it so you have to pretend they're not. Weak show.
showing that you are inexperienced, untrained, and in it for the sensationalism isn't complaining. it's actually pretty fun
If you had done any of those things, you'd have a point. But to date, every time you've tried to do any of those things, it took mere minutes to show that you were wrong -- often in hilarious ways -- which explains your continued failure to actually stand up for what you write by putting a name on it.
Of course, you'll never do that, because who would want to have their name associated with your type of rhetoric: baseless insults combined with being factually wrong on nearly every single comment.
even maddox realized this years ago. when you bitch and complain and tell everyone else that they're wrong, your position better be unassailable.
Who the hell is "maddox"? And, again, if you ever actually got something right, perhaps you'd have a point.
But so far, all you've done is made false claims that were easily proven as wrong. You claimed I said a judge said something that I never said. You claimed I confused revenue and units, when the numbers showed I had not. And on and on and on again. To date, the only one complaining and getting it wrong repeatedly has been you.
It's amusing to watch. Every few months we get some new troll show up here, but honestly, usually they're at least marginally competent at trolling. You're one of the more incompetent trolls we've seen in a while.
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What happens on Facebook...
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I do this on nearly every embedded YouTube video I view.
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Don't think so..
He provoked you to this relatively long answer, right?
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Facebook
And then they publish a statement that your account was deleted due to violating the terms. Hello False Light claim !! The CDA doesn't apply when MySpace published the defamatory statement. Oh how the tide can quickly turn on these untouchable companies :)
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