Facebook

Welcome to my resource page for things related to Facebook! Here you will find some information about Facebook that every Facebook user should be aware of and understand. This will require some reading, but if you don't know this stuff then you are at risk of ending up in a situation someday that you won't want to be in with no way to do a single thing about it. If you find yourself in that position, you need to find yourself there having planned ahead for it. Trust me.

If you are a Facebook user, here are my recommendations to you:

• Try other social media platforms

Consider shopping around to see if there are some other social media platforms other than Facebook to spend some of your time and energy working on. Remember this: to Facebook, you are nothing but a paper plate, and if they feel the need they'll discard you in a very similar manner and with the same amount of concern for any consequences to you, your family and friends, or to any of the well being of any of those people. In reality, to them, you are a number which brings me to my next suggestion...

• Record and keep up with your Facebook user #

• Don't upload/post content directly to Facebook; link to it when possible

Whenever possible, try to upload and post any actual content on a service such as WordPress or Google Blogger and then share links to that content on Facebook. This solves a couple of issues as far as Facebook is concerned. First, if you do happen to unknowingly post content that is a Facebook Community Standards violation, then technically you haven't actually done that you've merely linked to it. While I am not 100% certain that this would factor into how they determine what the consequences of a violation, I do believe that the link to the content is somehow a lesser offense than the actual content itself would be. At any rate, this probably reduces your odds of ever unknowingly banning yourself from Facebook forever, and it also ensures that if that does happen, Facebook won't be able to do a thing about stopping you from accessing every single bit of everything you've ever posted on their platform, nor will they continue to benefit from banning you as they would in a case where they stored all of the content you had ever posted directly on their servers.

• Make sure to manually keep a list of contact information for people on your Friend lists
• Download your Facebook information a minimum of once per year; 6 months is my recommendation

What Happens When Facebook Permanently Disables a User's Account?

First of all, when Facebook permanently disables a user's account the effects can be quite severe. It can have a huge psychological and/or an emotional toll, and can result in a huge negative impact on an individual's overall social activities, self-esteem, and personal well-being. It can do damage to a person's business and economic well-being as well, depending on how that person utilized the Facebook Platform. It can cause a person to unexpectedly and abruptly lose touch with numerous people they want in their lives, and vice versa for the people who are still using Facebook after the fact, completely unaware that Facebook has permanently disabled their friend or family member's account, or business associate's account, contractor's account, client's account, social club or group member's account, etc…

Facebook is used in such a way at this point in time that having it suddenly taken away with no warning and with very little (but most often not any) explanation whatsoever can be traumatizing to a certain degree. In some cases it has probably caused a great deal of heartache and suffering to some former Facebookers. When you add something such as recommended or even officially ordered social distancing to the mix, then In some cases you have probably just completely destroyed a person's entire social activities by permanently disabling their account. Per Facebook, permanently disabled accounts can never be reactivated, and they won't even review the details of such cases.

Here is a short list of some of the things that having your Facebook account permanently disabled will most likely result in happening to you:

• A lot of people will think that you have blocked them and that you still have access to your account as Facebook doesn't provide people attempting to reach your disabled profile with anything other than "You don't have access to view this content", or some other vague but similar message that makes it appear that you have blocked that person.  To them, that is how it appears, and I believe that this is intentional on the part of Facebook, and by design; that way, it looks bad on you in the eyes of that person trying to get to your profile, and not on Facebook for having banned you from using their platform.  It would probably make a lot of people mad if they knew Facebook simply discarded their friend or family member as if that person were some kind of used paper plate being discarded (and from what I can tell, that is pretty much how Facebook looks at each and every one of the users on their platform)…

• The ability to link your current phone number to a new Facebook account (by the way, when you are banned permanently, there's a good chance they'll prevent you from making a new account and in a case where you are able to, friends and family members won't be able to find you as easily as they could before because using your real name and real photos and a recognized e-mail address will probably result in the new account being permanently disabled as well. A great deal of this is automated and requires no human interaction on their part.)

• Suddenly no longer being able to communicate with people that you were able to communicate with only a few moments ago, sometimes having been able to for several years prior to being banned

• Permanently losing access to anything that you had uploaded which you may have had only on Facebook

• Any memories that you shared with people you cared about which you had been tagged in, or, in the case of the other users involved in that memory and who were tagged, your name will no longer be a link they can click on, simply text, so not even a tag any longer

• Losing access forever to any deceased friends' and/or family members' Facebook profiles, pictures, memories, etc, with no way to ever send those people another friend request in the future. These profiles will now be completely inaccessible to you unless someone else allows you to look at those profiles via their account (which is a Facebook TOS violation that will probably result in that person losing their account permanently as well, should Facebook find out about it)

•  Permanently losing access to all of the pages, groups, apps, games, or other activities that you might have frequently used on Facebook on a daily basis, possibly for over a decade. Depending on which resource it was, other people might also immediately lose access to the resource as well.  Facebook groups will still be accessible to other members of the group if you were the administrator, but if there wasn't another administrator assigned to the group at the time, the group will be without one for a time, and eventually Facebook will offer members the choice to become an admin or the group will be archived.  Any pictures used in that group that were uploaded by you will disappear, and in the case of the group's header and icon, they'll default to Facebook's cartoons until a new admin is assigned and new photos are uploaded.

• Although you will no longer have any access to your account, Facebook will retain your content for however long they choose to do so. They don't "delete" accounts, they "permanently disable" them, and this is so they can still benefit just as much from everything about you as they did prior to them banning you from using their platform. This is one of many reasons it is an easy choice for them to discard their paper plates whenever they choose to do so, there's no negative consequences for doing so regarding Facebook from their perspective.

• There are no legal actions that you can take against Facebook in regard to anything  mentioned here with the expectation of winning a court case.  Should you have the urge and are determined to make such an attempt, you are required by the TOS agreement that you agreed to when signing up for their service that any legal actions taken against Facebook will be filed in California and in the particular county specified by Facebook in that agreement.  You should know this ahead of time however, because even though you agreed to the Terms of Service I am pretty sure you didn't read them completely, but you have no rights and therefore no legal "leg to stand on" regarding anything pertaining to Facebook or the use of it.  This is probably the reason they don't have a customer service department because they have no pressing reason to waste money on something they don't care about, like their customers for example.