Tuesday, July 07, 2009

I Got Kicked Off Of Facebook!!


It's true.

I was having such a good time on Facebook doing the social thing. Hooking up. Hanging out. Having funny as only us old gals can. Had me a SuperPoke Pet named Elvis and a RockYou Pet named Precious. Had just attained Level 218 and earned a Golden Throne in Mafia Wars. Beginning to get really bored with My Farm, but still visiting it every day and giving gifts to folks.

I went to Louisiana to gamble and took my laptop so I could bank my over 20k hourly earnings in Mafia Wars and keep up with all the other things that need daily attention. First night I fired up via the inroom hookup and got the message that my account had been disabled.

They say I violated the Terms of Service. They don't offer any real explanation of what crime I allegedly committed, but they did offer a link to their TOS and supposedly a way to appeal my "conviction".

I sent them email right away and said I was pretty sure I hadn't done ANYTHING wrong. Actually I wrote nicely TWICE, and I'm still waiting to be reinstated or at least an explanation for My Crime(s).

I've done a lot of pondering during the past 7 days of forced Facebook inactivity trying to figure out what happened.



I've come up with a couple of possibilities and one is that I was getting too good in Mafia Wars. I had 3737 family members and didn't see nearly as many RED notations on my player stats as I had in the beginning. I was dumping ineffective weapons on my SIL's account as he never used it anyway. Since I'd earned the Golden Throne I was generating energy faster and would of been able to complete jobs quicker to level up.

I also got crosswise with one of the "groups" of pompous little pissants that cling together ostensibly to help one another from attacks by "bullies", when they in fact become bullies in their own right. When it dawned on me what I was involved in and the constant barrage of unsolicited emails advising us to attack so-and-so, I bowed out of the group. I thought they'd have no hard feelings about my choice, but now I'm not so sure. Let me be clear, I have no proof, but all a person has to do is accuse someone of something and you can get kicked off!

There was also the matter of The Photo. My daughter thinks the photo(s) of myself with GUNS (oh, the horror of it all!) might of been what had me tossed. If that is the case with "face", I'm beyond stunned. You'd of thought they'd give me a warning on something like that, but then again, it's their game, their rules and their power. Might makes right just about any where on the planet.

I'm probably going to end up rejoining under another email address. I'll have to start over in Mafia Wars and I'm not happy about that, but at least THIS time I'll know what NOT to do in order to advance quickly and painlessly through the ranks. I'll never trust them though to not just pull the plug when and if they see fit. I'll never buy anything ever again to improve my character and that goes double for My Farm and any of the pets or other applications. I'm hanging my head in shame to admit that I ever did spend money on this crap. What was I thinking!!

Mafia Wars is fun. It's a great stress buster too. I'm going back in just to keep playing.

Facebook is two faced. On the one face they say they are a social network and they encourage you to invite everyone you know to join you there. The truer face though says you can't send out email to people you don't know, you can't send out more email than XX, you can't write too much on your wall or anyone else's. You don't know you are in "trouble" until a pink box pops up and then they don't tell you that you should cease and desist for days if not weeks in order to appease the godnobs.



I'm too old for this shit.

For awhile there I thought I'd have a T-shirt made. It would be, of course, RED and on the front would be:

I'm 66 years old and I got kicked off of Facebook!


And on the back...

....and I don't even know why!


I decided it was foolish to spend the money for the shirt. So I've appeased my hurt feelings by blogging about it here instead.

I feel better now after regurgitating it all in the blog too. At least here I've never had a worry about getting in trouble for being myself.

6 comments:

Indigo Jo said...

According to Fbook's TOS they are NOT a social networking site (!)...

*They* consider Fbook to be a place for friends & family to 'connect.' I assume they mean friends you presently have, but this leaves me wondering why is there municipal networking?

Before you became active, did you know that only high school & college students were allowed in? Yup-- members had to have an educational affiliation that Fbook recognized to get an account.

I'm so mad about losing you on Fbook I could SPIT. Anger like this scares me, so I'm afraid to reply to my in-box, write anything on my Wall; not knowing if I'm going to do something against the rules (or like flying together in HI.!) You, me and 'Laine...

Oh well, just a lot of nerves from the suddenness and not knowing. I am wanting you back very soon <3

Rick Overholt said...

Please forgive me, but, I did have to laugh. First of all, let me say, that I hate facebook. It's busy, and my god, here I am 52 years old and being offered bunnies and plants and such! Then, the screen is such a clutter fest, train wreck meets nascar pileup.

That said, Mafia Wars was a little fun. They should break off and go solo!

I'm sorry your work was wasted. You should be proud of yourself though, for getting booted. You're such a bad-ass! I don't think I would go back if they kicked me off.

TxGoodie said...

Rick, you always know the right thing to say to make me feel better!! I've never been a 'bad-ass' before... cool...I think I like it!! Haha...

I'm back...I went from being Don GoThere to Don DeleteMe!! Hugs..

Anonymous said...

Maybe they found out about that "R" rated movie you made at the park with Travis. It was a lot humping going on!!!!

Kimberly said...

The word Texas appears in your blog title...now, I know that should make you much smarter to even be a Facebook user. Just saying...

However, there is something very appealing about spending time in the clink.

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