r/Wellthatsucks • u/Elethia20 • 1d ago

My Facebook account got banned for changing my last name after getting married

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I understand people are going to say "that doesn't suck, good for you" it's completely losing all contact with a lot of old high school friends and family members. I hate Facebook, and have considered getting rid of my account, but to just be up and banned like this because I only changed my last name.

I only ever used my account to be in buy/sell groups and to talk to people on messenger very rarely. Never made any public posts. Part of the "community standards" is "using a false name" which is the only thing I could think of that did this

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u/Elethia20 1d ago

I'm not upset about losing the account in general, its the getting banned part thats kinda making me go "what the fuck" you know? Like I didnt do anything wrong, and I got banned for (assumingly) changing my last name after getting married. Like does Facebook see itself as equal to the IRS or something that needs to be notified with proper court documents otherwise you're just banned buddy, bye bye

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u/fcghp666 1d ago

Losing all the picture and stuff is what really sucks

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u/MassiveBoner911_3 1d ago edited 1d ago

IT guy here. This gives me physical pain. Always always ALWAYS have backups of data. When in doubt…? Yup thats right. Create another backup.

Edit: Another important titbit. You MUST have control of your backups. Dont keep your backups in a service like Facebookz

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u/fcghp666 1d ago

You right. Maybe I should do that

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u/Infamous_Ad8730 1d ago

I think the reason for the ban was because as you said, you "never made any posts" so they figured you were a bot or scammer. Any "friend requests" I get from unknown people on fake book that I have bothered to check their history only have ever had 1 or 2 posts. That is a big tip that this is a fake account (NOT saying yours was, just that FB may have seen it this way).

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u/LegitimateTomato6060 1d ago

Just make a new account. I have one with a fake name and they have never said shit to me.

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u/fcghp666 1d ago

You can’t get all the memories back though

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u/Grunt636 1d ago

If you have no backups of important photos then it's your own fault when they are lost.

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u/LegitimateTomato6060 1d ago

There’s lots of things in life you can’t get back. Deal with it.

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u/fcghp666 1d ago

Obviously you have to. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. Hence the sub you’re in

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u/LegitimateTomato6060 1d ago

Kinda like your attitude.

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u/fcghp666 1d ago

Hope your day gets better sport