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This may sound a little harsh but: That's the risk with putting all your eggs into someone else's basket. Especially if that someone is a faceless corporation
by leon_ 15y ago
This may sound a little harsh but:
That's the risk with putting all your eggs into someone else's basket. Especially if that someone is a faceless corporation with famous bureaucracy.
FB closed my account earlier this year too, because I have an uncommon/strange middle name. It led to 7 iOS apps not having any FB support for several days. No, the FB acc wasn't reopened - I just uploaded new versions to the app store with FB support removed. But I was sort of prepared for that and never gave the FB integration a prominent place in my apps - so users weren't that upset when it went away. (I got burnt the first time around 2002 when Google decided to close my Adsense account because our color scheme was "mis leading" users. Adsense was at that time my only (but good paying) income and suddenly losing all of your income was a hard lesson to learn.)
I don't know your site/app but maybe you should (after you get the stuff sorted out) over think your investment in FB for your future projects. (I'm sure you aren't desperate for no reason.)
Btw. FB answered my request 3 weeks later with a form letter asking me for a copy of my ID. I didn't react to that but I have the feeling that it would have taken another weeks and form letters to sort the situation out.
- CWIZO 15y agoI agree with you completely. And like I've said a couple of times in this thread, we didn't put all our eggs in FB's basket. And my desperation didn't come from the fact that now we are screwed (which we aren't), but from the fact that I know what hell I'll have to go trough to get the matter sorted out.