When Facebook blocked me.....

My college already has a Facebook group. It is as good as dead, though. The owner is either dead (in which case, may his soul R.I.P) or kidnapped by aliens. BECAUSE NOONE CAN BE TOO BUSY TO FACEBOOK!! Especially if one can create a group which has 288 members and be silly enough not to appoint officers or administrators!!

I tried to revive the group. But you can’t do much, really when you don’t have access to the ‘message all members’ option.

So I proceeded to plan B. I made another group. But the question was- How to get people to know that another group exists? So, I started sending out individual invites to the members. I did write on the wall even, but who checks a dead group for new wallposts anyway?

I had barely invited forty people, when a “Slow down, or you are going to hit a block” message started flashing.

I stopped. Then I replied to some pending inbox messages.

I sent fifty messages yesterday. Now Facebook has temporarily blocked me from sending messages.

I visited the FAQ page.

“Unfortunately, Facebook cannot provide any specifics on the rate limits that we enforce.”

“Please note that even if all of your conversations were legitimate interactions with friends, our message service is not a chat client, and should not be treated as such.”

I can’t mail anyone right now. I was chatting on the Facebook chat yesterday and I started getting the “Slow down, or you are going to hit a block” message there too!!

So, basically, I’m ARGHed out right now.

No message, no chat. I don’t know when this stinko ban will be lifted, even. When it is, if it is, I am supposed to ‘proceed with my site activity at a slower rate so as to avoid hitting another block or having my account disabled.’

Account disabled?? WTH?? It IS a social networking site, isn’t it??