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Facebook Lite, Lebih Ringan

bernadsatriani — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:27:26 +0000

Akhirnya Facebook meluncurkan versi Lite-nya. Versi ini bisa dibilang diluncurkan untuk membantu para user di negara negara yang bandwidth terlalu lambat. Indonesia termasuk ga yah ? Beberapa vitur dan layanan di pangkas pada versi Lite ini. Mungkin versi ini lebih mirip dengan situs mikroblogging Twitter, karna tampilan lebih simpel dan ringan.

Sebenarnya untuk versi ini sementara hanya tersedia di Amerika dan India, tapi di Indonesia kita bisa mencobanya melalui http://lite.facebook.com

Untuk yang lebih sering menggunakan ponsel sebagai medianya, versi Lite bisa menjadi rekomendasi yang baik karenan memang lebih ringan dan tidak menguras bandwidth.

Reason Your Facebook Account Will Be Disabled

bernadsatriani — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:46:59 +0000

Here’s what we’re hearing from people all over the world: Facebook is shutting down accounts of users who are exhibiting any behavior it finds remotely suspicious. As paradoxical as it sounds, “suspicious” often means just using the site too much! Sometimes they warn people and give them the chance to change their behavior, and sometimes the account termination is sudden and permanent. Most of the time the disabled accounts will be turned back on, whether automatically after a cool-down period, or after prostrating yourself to the FB authorities. But sometimes they’ll lock it up and throw away the key.

Facebook remains intentionally vague about what “bad behavior” looks like, and so it’s no wonder that people get confused, angry or despondent when they get the ACCOUNT DISABLED message. To help people avoid having their accounts disabled, I’ve listed the most common reasons why people report having their accounts abruptly turned off. Keep in mind, that this list is almost surely incomplete, and until Facebook changes their policy to embrace more transparency and two-way communication we’ll have to live with a bit of uncertainty when using Facebook.

Here are the things that (supposedly) will get you kicked off Facebook:

1. You didn’t use your real name

Don’t try to use a nickname (or initials)in lieu of the name on your birth certificate, because Facebook will find you and spit you out.

2. You joined too many groups

Remember that the maximum limit is 200 groups per user. More than that just looks desperate, don’t you think?

3. You posted too many messages on a wall or in a group

Even Guy Kawasaki had his account disabled–in his case for “excessive evangelism.”

4. You posted in too many groups, too many user’s walls

You may be axed for being too verbose in too many places. That’s what spammers do, silly. On Facebook it is better–or at least safer–to be seen than heard.

5. You friended too many people

Not so long ago this was a prime cause of disabled accounts, but Facebook has instituted a maximum of 5000 friends that should protect you from yourself.

6. Your school/organization affiliation is doubtful

The overlords are sometimes not very trusting, and they may accuse you of not graduating from Harvard (or Plum Senior High School). The impertinence! Better have your diploma ready.

7. You’re poking too many people

We’ve heard this from multiple sources, and it’s easy enough to avoid. Save the pokes for people you *really* like, as mum always said. But beware the odd FB app that pokes on your behalf.

8. For advertising your app on wall posts

The line between spam and self-promotion is a thin one, but let it be known that pimping your shiny new Facebook app is definitely considered SPAM.

9. Using duplicate text in multiple messages

Some people paste a generic welcome message into friend requests to save time. DON’T DO THIS! It makes you look like a spammer. (Ironically, pro spammers are probably randomizing their messages to avoid this trap)

10. You are a cow, dog, or library

Being a real person is not enough, you must be a homo sapien. Accounts have been deleted for cows, dogs and libraries.

11. You are under eighteen years old

According to one report a user’s account was suspended when they suspected her of being under 18. She was required to enter a work email address to prove her maturity, at which point her account was reinstated. [note: other users have pointed out that being under 18 is fine if you're part of a High School group, though underage home schoolers have been told to bugger off]

12. You wrote offensive content

Reports of “sudden death” on accounts have been reported by users who were told they had posted offensive content, but were not provided details of the offense.

13. You scraped information off Facebook

They have a zero tolerance policy for page scraping (i.e. pulling content off their web pages via a script). Unfortunately, they don’t have a reliable way of proving it’s you who’s doing the scraping (IP matching is probably as good as they can get), so you may find this a difficult charge to defend yourself against.

Finally, you may be disabled for no clear reason at all. One Australian member reported this staggering experience:

“I was blocked for a little while because I was ‘misusing certain features of the site’ Naturally I closely examined their conditions of use etc for some insight as to what I must have done wrong. I couldn’t for the life of me find anything…

“Upon request for clarification I was told that they were not at liberty to divulge which features or of course any thresholds of use. Then they warned me not to do it again or I would be banned permanently without recourse to reinstatement.”

You have been warned. Remember that the hand of justice is swift and merciless.

Source : google.com

Good Service From Facebook

bernadsatriani — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:36:58 +0000

Beberapa hari yang lalu seorang teman perempuan yang juga adik angkatan di SMA, menanyakan bagaimana mengembalikan Facebook account nya yang di suspend oleh pihak Facebook. Perhaps u thought me is a Facebook admin

Gw berpikir mungkin terkena report spam. Lalu gw jelasin kepadanya apa itu report spam. Dia sempat mengatakan mungkin saja ada orang yang sengaja melaporkan ke pihak Facebook bahwa akun miliknya melakukan aktifitas yang berlebihan. Mungkin bisa jadi, karna orang yang tertuduh sempat di ‘curhatkan’ sebelumnya beberapa hari sebelum akun tersebut di suspend.

Lalu saya meminta email yang digunakan untuk mendaftar di Facebook. Tidak disangka malah ditawarin email+password serta akun Facebook+password.

Langsung saja malamnya gw kontak pihak Facebook via email, dan pastinya dengan nada protes dan seolah olah marah.

Berselang beberapa menit kemudian ada balasan yang ternyata hanya auto reply. Huff.

Sempat jengkel juga, karna mungkin Facebook seperti Yahoo, yang sangat susah mendapat respon balik.

Karna jengkel, gw sempat berkoar koar di status Facebook gw, bahwa jika tidak mendapat reply dari Facebook akan gw drop databasenya. Haha. Padahal gw ga bisa apa apa sama sekali, walaupun dulu sempat menemukan bugs SQLi di Facebook. Tapi sayang belum sempat di dumping sudah keburu dipatch :p

Ga nyangka 2 hari kemudian, ketika teman gw menanyakan lagi kabar Facebooknya, gw suruh cek emailnya apakah sudah ada balasan lagi. Saat itu gw sedang online menggunakan Hp, so rada malas buka email

Kata dia ada pesan masuk baru di emailnya, langsung saja gw suruh coba untuk login Facebooknya. Dan sesaat kemudian dia membalas sms dengan nada girang karena akunnya telah aktif kembali.

Ternyata Facebook tidak seburuk yang gw bayangkan :p

Berikut balasan email protes gw terhadap Facebook. Silahkan artikan sendiri what the reason why that account suspended.