Social networking, we all do it. In fact, I am more or less doing it now. (Not that anyone else but who I live with reads this blog but there it is.) It is that wonderful thing were there is a network of social people, mostly today used in the context of online social networking. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr. Sites that connect you with people and are fun and easy to use.
And that's were I come in.
Me, online social network would be better described as online social failures. Recently I have joined "the" Facebook for the fourth time. But hold off on you judgement, my dear readers. Unlike most people, when they "leave" Facebook, it is a voluntary action, with them rushing back after a few days of abstinence. This makes many, including myself, sigh and roll our eyes just a little bit. I, on the other hand, was forcibly kicked off, three times. Okay, so now you can judge, but judge appropriately.
The first time I was kicked off, I am fairly certain it was because they thought I was the sort of criminal that preyed on teenagers. Some back story on how I came to this conclusion, because, just to let you all know, I am not a criminal that preys on teenagers.
When I was kicked off, it was with no warning whatsoever. In the morning I logged into my account, by the afternoon I could not. There was no explanation as to why this had happened, and I even contacted Facebook about it. I never received a reply. Understandably, I was annoyed, and I know all of my faithful followers were furious. Curious to get to the bottom of this confounding dilemma, I did a little research online.
Apparently Facebook often kicks people off. Usually because they are doing too much social networking. Things such as loading up pictures, liking other pictures, asking for friends, those sorts of things. The programs designed to find robots and terminate their accounts look for this kind of behavior, not discriminating against people who do the same thing. (I am not sure what the problem is with robots being on Facebook, or on the internet at all. It seems rather discriminatory.) From what I found there, the people always got a warning, something along the lines of "Stop your excessive online social networking or we will terminate your account. If you stop you will prove you are not a robot, and we will not kick you off." (Wait, maybe it isn't robot discrimination, maybe its just Facebook's way of telling you to get out more...) Anyway, this common reason for being kicked off is because you are acting like a robot.
I received no such warning. And while I did have a dedicated collection of friends, I highly doubted I did enough on Facebook to warrant being called a robot. I did a little more research. Apparently, accounts where Facebook just ends you, are when they do not suspect you of being a robot. In fact, it is when they suspect you of being a human. A criminal in fact, and one that plans on doing some very serious crimes at that. Anyone who knows me knows I look for rules to follow and laws to obey sooooo, why me? Well apparently putting down a high-school i you did not actually go to is enough be be "suspicious." In fact, even if you are not a criminal, putting down the wrong high-school can still be enough to get kicked off. Since I was home-schooled, I put down something really weird, I can't even remember what. Something stupid like "my bedroom."
I have no proof that was why I was kicked off, that is only my very best guess.
And then the same thing happened...again.
I contacted Facebook again after the second time I was kicked off, explaining to them even my suspicions as to why I had been kicked off the first time. The actually replied back to me this time, apologizing, and they gave me my account again, (the second one, not the first one.)
The third time I am pretty sure it was from non-use. I mean, I would go to Facebook, and see what other people were up to, but I would not do anything myself. So I mean, that one was kind of my fault.
And because I liked being kicked off of things, I joined a fourth time, just for the fun of it.
I also joined Twitter a couples years back. Despite having only made 7 tweets total they have kicked me off yet.
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