Black Banned By Facebook

[banisters_mind]

Okay...

This is really pathetic I know but I'm gonna let it all hang out right here anyway because I have no shame.

This morning, whilst routinely logging into my FaceBook account from my work, I found my password for my account being rejected. Even though I knew that I had the correct password and had been entering it correctly I submitted a forgot password request. The next thing I know - I find that my account has been disabled!

So what does any normal mid 30's guy, with a responsible job and a young family do? He panics. And not just panic, panic but FUCKING panic. Not only do I have a considerable amount of friends on my FB page but I use FB to promote my novel, to communicate with a fair number of FB friends all across the world and keep up with current events. I have actually come to depend upon FB for general news, views, gossip and of course keeping up with my favorite internet talk shows.

I email disabled@facebook.com - 4 times - and have to date received no response - not surprising. I have also googled the issue - disabled facebook account and the results have been surprisingly and not a little disturbingly quite prolific. Disabling of accounts by FB happens more often than you would think.

The most upsetting thing about it is that I recently joined a group that has been swapping stories and pictures of the town where I spent the first 5 years of my life - a town that was completely demolished in the late 70's because it was sitting on a massive pile of brown coal (the town's name is Yallourn fyi). I have been reconnecting with so many people who I grew up with and now I can't even contact with them because FB was the only way I could. It is - in a word - devastating. And I feel powerless to do anything.

So now I feel as though I have literally been blinded, cut off from the world and I have no idea how to get it back. Several hundred friends have just...gone.

And although my rational mind says thay my behaviour is completely ridiculous...

I am freaking the FUCK out...