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Millions of people log into Facebook every day to share their life stories, photos, connect with friends, colleagues, loved ones, even conduct online sales, and manage their businesses. For many, Facebook has become something they feel they can't live without.
Reasons leading to permanent Facebook account lock
Imagine one day you try to log in to Facebook and receive a notification that your account has been locked. Facebook indeed has the capability to lock or disable your account at any given time. There are reasons behind why they do this, and Mytour has compiled them below.
I. Why do Facebook accounts get locked.
II. How to avoid getting your Facebook account locked.
III. How to recover a locked Facebook account.
I. Why do Facebook accounts get locked? Common reasons behind permanent account loss
Below are the reasons why your Facebook account gets locked or why you might permanently lose access to your Facebook account:
- Not using your real name.
- Creating fake pages impersonating an individual or organization, which may result in account lockout or even closure without warning.
- Joining too many groups. The maximum limit is 200 groups per user.
- Posting offensive, pornographic, or content violating Facebook's Terms of Service.
- Sending 'too many' friend requests or posting 'too many' identical posts on walls, groups (especially if the content is identical) within a short period.
- Someone may have attempted to gain access to your account, so Facebook requires you to verify that you are the rightful owner.
In recent days, a series of Facebook accounts in Vietnam have been temporarily suspended, paused, and are at risk of permanent lockout. The reason cited is the sharing of sensitive content related to children. The dissemination of illicit materials, spreading images and clips containing sensitive content may be subject to legal repercussions, and social media giants like Facebook, TikTok, Twitter... are implementing various measures, as well as frequently updating policies to protect minors and their users. Generally, the main reason for the lockout of your Facebook account is violating Facebook's community standards.
Those who receive a 'account temporarily suspended' notification will have 30 days to appeal the decision, and if they fail to provide convincing reasons, their accounts will be permanently locked.
II. How to avoid getting your Facebook account locked
Sometimes your Facebook account gets locked without warning. However, you can entirely avoid this scenario by taking the following measures:
- Limit friend requests and the number of posts you make within a short period.
- Adhere to Facebook's terms and conditions, community standards.
- If you're using Facebook for business marketing, incorporate other platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram into your marketing strategy and build a follower base based on them.
- Avoid clicking on links from purposeful Facebook emails as they may lead you to phishing websites, and cybercriminals can easily hack your account with your login information
- More: How to prevent Facebook advertising account from being locked
III. How to recover a locked Facebook account
When your Facebook account is locked, you can follow the instructions previously shared by Mytour to unlock it. If you're lucky, you may regain access to your account without creating a new Facebook account.
- More: How to unlock a disabled Facebook account
It's important that you do it yourself instead of resorting to advertised Facebook account unlocking services on the internet because besides the money you have to spend, you also have to provide personal information, ID cards, citizenship cards, or other personal documents for these services. It's unclear whether they fulfill their promises as advertised, but chances are you'll be deceived, losing both money and personal information.
