You may have noted elsewhere on this website that I have had a continuing battle with the forces that be at Facebook. For the past year or so, I have attempted to open a Facebook account – and actually posted it one for about 24 hours – only to turn around the next day and have it disabled.
They don’t give to a reason, just refer you to their help center, which is about as much help as a mud bath. There they give you a bunch of reasons why they disable accounts, but no clue as to which of those, if any, applies to you. But they do tell you that you can appeal their decision. Click on that and a form comes up that you can fill in and send back to them. I did. Heard nothing. Nada.
I recently – just for the heck of it – tried to log in again. Of course, I got the message that the account was disabled, and so on, but my cursor happened to hit on the last two words of the notice, and they lit up, so I clicked on them. Lo and behold, there was a procedure to actually reinstate a disabled account! Who knew? The gist of this process was, that in order to prove to them that I was actually a flesh-and-blood person, I could send them a copy of my driver’s license, or other picture ID (such as a passport). I scanned my license, and sent it off to them.
I waited to see if that did any good, and again, heard nothing. Otra vez nada.
A few days ago I tried logging on again, and – lo and behold – my account was back up and running! So far it’s still viable, and you can find me there under my given name, Eugene Masters. Or click on the Facebook icon!
See you on Facebook. For now, at least.
-Gene