Apparently, this guy tried to upload his 4600 contacts from Gmail into Facebook to allow invites, and then he got banned for unusual activity.

I guess the Facebook application thought that he was a spammer uploading that many contacts. This then really begs the question, how does an application know that activity is spam or it is legitimate?

Read the post.

According to Harry,

“So I teed up my 4600 email addresses in the Facebook invitation application, and & BLAM!; Off goes my mass invitation. Call me krazy, but again: I’m thinking “Facebook = Rolodex” and there is nothing in Facebook’s UI to disabuse me of this notion or limit my actions. Two minutes later I get the following email from Facebook …

Hi,

Your account has been disabled for persistent (my bold) misuse of the site. Please contact disabled@facebook.com for more information.

The Facebook Team”

This was a few days ago. Since then, Harry has gotten no help from the folks at Facebook and is still permanently banned. He has exchanged a couple of emails…to no avail. Now I know you have to protect against spammers, but come-on, banning a legit person just because they have too many contacts? I can understand the automated trigger, but even the follow-up’s from customer service have resulted in “your still banned.”

What’s up with that Facebook?

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