How in the world would they know if he lied about his high school???

They have some "verification" process. But he didn't lie. He responded to repeated spam with his high school. And if they are banning people on FB for being dishonest, then maybe they need to ban all of the people with 20 year old pictures, those who lie about their income level, those with fake names, those who pretend to be nice but are really douchebags, etc.

FB claims they don't "need" the high school information – but Tanner said it was several times a day spam until he just finally gave in.

but thats what I dont understand…how can they verify it???

maybe he moved…maybe he got a variance…maybe he's going to a private school

its not like the schools are providing FB with their student lists.

how stupid…and i know of people with "fake" accounts so obviously honesty is not necessary /rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

Yeah – it's tough to figure out. I guess they do stuff like this to control spammers. As I was trying to figure out why Tanner had been disabled, I discovered that FB does a lot of arbitrary disabling of accounts for asinine reasons. Poking to many people was one that popped up repeatedly. I knew there was a reason I didn't poke people.

The problem is that they encourage people to use FB as their online social center. Then they disable the accounts permanently for no good reason without any recourse. Niiiiicccceeee.

This is the email they sent to Tanner's request for them to explain why they banned him and reinstate his account:

Hi,

In order to receive support, you must reply to this email to verify that you are the owner of the Facebook account that you referenced in your inquiry. This security step must be completed before Facebook can respond to your inquiry.

In addition, note that Facebook will only be able to provide assistance if you are writing in from the email address that you used to log in to your Facebook profile that's disabled. If your disabled profile was registered under a different email address, then you will need to respond directly from that email address. To do this, take the following steps:

• Copy the exact email address you see in the "From" field of this email (ending in @support.facebook.com).

• Log in to the email account under which your disabled Facebook profile was registered.

• Compose a new email. Paste the address you copied (ending in @support.facebook.com) into the "To" field, let us know you're responding from your disabled email address in the body, and click "Send."

Once we have this information, we will take further steps to assist you. Remember that writing in multiple times will not result in a faster response. Once you submit your initial request, it is placed in a queue and responded to accordingly.

Lastly, you may not create another account using a different email address while you are waiting for a response. Creating more than one Facebook account is a violation of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, and violations of this rule could result in all of your accounts being permanently disabled.

Thanks,

The Facebook Team

Facebook is having an awful lot of PR problems lately. Perhaps crap like this is why.

did they tell him originally he was disabled because of his school?

im just curious because i know a lot of people get their accounts

hijaked and maybe his was and they changed the email or something

and FB disabled it. i dont know…its scary. i would hate to lose my

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When he went to login, it said "account disabled by admin" and gave a help link. Following the helplink took him to a bunch of FAQs about the "high school network." Further research led to a number of people who have been disabled due to the high school network for the same reason. I would have seen if his account was hijacked and became spammy. Apparently this is one of the many crazy, arbitrary, capricious and user-unfriendly policies they have in place at FB.