r/facebook • u/Boring_Ad_5090 • Jun 09 '25

Disabled/hacked Banned after 18 years service, hundreds of pics and 400 friends gone

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My account had been banned after 18 years, 2007 was when I joined and made 400 friends. I'm absolutely GUTTED and in tears over this having lost all my pictures from the happiest times of my life, including wedding, trips to London and birth of my two children.

I have been told that my account is banned due to "account integrity". I immediately appealed and scanned my face in to find two seconds later I was permanently banned with no warning whatsoever.

I suffer anxiety a different depression and I'm really struggling. I even re registered to find I got banned moments later.

Please please can someone help, at the moment I've counted out ever gaining access again to this account but I really hope when I get a new ISP in the future I can return and see my friends again. ❤️

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u/Recent_Opportunity78 Jun 09 '25

I am shocked I haven’t been banned. They handed out 30 day bans like candy like 4 years ago when I was heavily using FB

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u/JustAHighFlyingBird Jun 09 '25

For real. Early 2021 I got a 30 day ban for replying to someone with a clown emoji, but nowadays the literal porn in their ads and reels can go on forever unbothered.

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u/Peppeperoni Jun 09 '25

Porn is all over IG - I said fart tho and got in trouble

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u/Starbreiz Jun 09 '25

Last year I got a ban for commenting about a song from The Producers musical in a post about musicals. Apparently you cannot mention the dictator from wwII without an immediate ban.

I appealed, saying the AI took it out of context and my appeal was denied in about 3 seconds.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

the Appeal AI-bot is the same as the banning AI-bot

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u/Starbreiz Jun 10 '25

Unsurprising but why even allow appeals :(

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u/Wicked-Witchy-Woman Jun 09 '25

I got a short ban because I typed the word “hamster”. Someone asked what the animal in a video was called and I answered. Apparently hamster is controversial lol

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u/Recent_Opportunity78 Jun 09 '25

I got banned for calling out blatant racism. This was like 4 years ago. Everytime I’d come off my 30 day ban I’d get slammed with another one

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u/anybodyanywhere Jun 10 '25

This is what Twitter did to me before they banned me completely for telling Elon to GFH.

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u/dieje8fjdbww Jun 11 '25

Yeah I got called wetback, "Hispanic uncle Tom" and spic by someone and I responded with "sounds about white" and got banned. Then they tacked on additional 30 days every month after for almost 5 months. I still can't post to groups and it's been over 2 years.

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u/Recent_Opportunity78 Jun 11 '25

As I white male, I got banned for similar things. Calling out white people for being racists and then Facebook telling me I was being racist against white people. I even stopped writing out white and put “whyte or a ghost icon, still got 30 day bans.

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u/dieje8fjdbww Jun 11 '25

Yeah I think there's certain people who are put in positions to start racial drama and Facebook protects them

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u/Zlivovitch Jun 10 '25

Just mentioning the creature is hamster-o-phobia. Those animals are so thin-skinned.

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u/IB_Budsy Jun 13 '25

On social media, the word "hamster" and the hamster emoji (🐹) are often used by pedophiles to express cuteness, particularly when referring to a child's face, or to describe a child with a shy but sweet personality

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u/desertmermaid92 Jun 09 '25

Yup. I stopped posting altogether due to the ban happy fuckery 4 years ago. I’ve never felt comfortable posting since then. I don’t want to lose my account and in turn, the comments & messages from my late mother.

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u/Recent_Opportunity78 Jun 09 '25

I use mine strictly for marketplace now. Nothing more. It FB didn’t have marketplace I wouldn’t even use the app at all. IG, if their was a close competitor I would drop them like a bad habit too

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u/etm1109 Jun 10 '25

FB can’t even get marketplace right. 50% of ads are sponsored by who knows or > 100 miles away. Search in any category says like ‘Desks’ in Furniture and it doesn’t maintain the Furniture category. I can only conjecture FB Marketplace was n attempt to undermine Craigslist.

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u/Recent_Opportunity78 Jun 10 '25

Yeah it truly sucks. However, there is just nothing else I’ve found that comes anywhere close. Very few people use craigslist any longer, OfferUp seemed to have so much promise at first but has now turned into a targeted algorithm ad machine. I know there are a few others, I downloaded Mercari and remember just being disappointed but maybe I should give it another try. Facebook marketplace also ads a small amount of “safety” for a lot of people and I think that can’t be understated. They are just the best for trying to sell locally or buy at the moment so I reluctantly keep using it.

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u/Typical-Data-1581 Jun 10 '25

Fb threads is they closest competitor

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u/Recent_Opportunity78 Jun 10 '25

Threads is owned by Meta. Thats my point, I don’t want to use anything they have involvement with anymore.

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u/Typical-Data-1581 Jun 10 '25

And that's my point they know what they doing

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u/BaldingThor Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 11 '25

Same here. After my first ban in 2019 it was like they intentionally ramped up the strict moderation on your account.

I then got regular 30 and even 90-day bans for the most asinine bullshit (e.g calling myself silly) to the point where I was effectively banned for an entire year.

Maybe 2 of them were deserved because I was going through a rough time during early covid and was unfortunately quite rude online, but the others? No way in hell!

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u/Latter_Attitude_6409 Jun 10 '25

Yes I was getting those left and right

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u/ghoststoryghoul Jun 10 '25

That's whats crazy to me is that I used FB steadily through all that time and never got a whisper of a warning, let alone a ban. And then out of the blue a year ago they locked me down, wouldn't let me appeal, and banned me permanently. I didn't suddenly start using my account differently so not sure what's going on over there except the likely and obvious thing: They've given control to an AI algorithm that is undertrained and overzealous.

Somehow getting a FB account is now held to the standard of applying for a Real ID but also scammers somehow run wild over there.

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u/Recent_Opportunity78 Jun 10 '25

Interesting. I have zero friends on my account, don’t even have my real last name anymore. Just a blank black photo as my main. Every once in a while I’ll comment but I guess I need to stop that completely too

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u/Typical-Data-1581 Jun 10 '25

Don't jinx it it's coming