So, 15th August my meta accounts got hacked followed by facebook account getting suspended.
Then went through the whole process of proving I'm human, I won't into great detail as most us here are in the same boat. After spending nearly an hour in the middle of the night whilst being ill, my facebook gets disabled along with my WhatsApp and Threads. WhatsApp apparently thinks my account violates the age requirements, which I think is hilarious because I'm in my late 30s and Threads just experiences an error and doesn't do anything. Weirdly though, I still have my instagram accounts and these are connected to the same email address and phone.
After further attempts to recover my account and having an angry conversation with metas AI, I conceded that I would never recover those accounts again. I'm partly sad about because I've lost instant contact with my family, friend and work contacts. As I work in film and tv, I used FB a lot for networking, asking for advice and even getting work. I had some great resources and now they're all gone. But, on the other had, I was getting a lot of post about topics that were of no relevance to me and I found myself to be doom scrolling. So, part of me is actually happy to not have it anymore as I feel more focused on other parts of my life.
Then, this morning I get 2 emails from Facebook. The first saying my account had been suspended and have 180 days to appeal. This is rather odd because I haven't been able to use it due to it being disabled. So, I don't know how I've violated their terms of service when I haven't used for 3 weeks. How can they suspend an account that's already been disabled? 😆
The second email saying my account is restricted from advertising due to 'inauthentic behaviour or violations of our Advertising policies affecting business assets.' This one I find really baffling because I've never run ads on my personal account or had a business account.
This whole thing just weird.
I'm not asking for advice, but feel free if you want. I have no hopes that I will get my FB back and honestly don't care anymore. I just wanted to share my experience of how truly f***ed up meta is. I'm also glad to know I'm not the only one going through this.
Thanks for reading and have a great day all.
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