p2pnet news | Freedom:- "If you are trying to contact me on Facebook, please don’t," blogs Robert Scoble on Scobleizer.

Because …

… "Our systems indicate that you’ve been highly active on Facebook lately and viewing pages at a quick enough rate that we suspect you may be running an automated script," says Facebook to Scoble, going on:

This kind of Activity would be a violation of our Terms of Use and potentially of federal and state laws.

As a result, your account has been disabled. Please reply to this email with a description of your recent activity on Facebook. In addition, please confirm with us that in the future you will not scrape or otherwise attempt to obtain in any manner information from our website except as permitted by our Terms of Use, and that you will immediately delete and not use in any manner any such information you may have previously obtained.

We reserve the right to take any appropriate action in connection with any activities that violate our Terms of Use and/or applicable laws, including termination of your account and pursuit of legal remedies.

Please reply to this email.

Nasty.

Scobleizer admits he is indeed running a script, going on:

"I’m appealing. I’ll tell you what I was doing as soon as I talk with the developers who built what I was using and as soon as I talk with Facebook’s support (I sent an email in reply to the one below, but haven’t heard back yet).

"I run this stuff so you don’t have to.

"UPDATE: Rodney Rumford, who runs the FaceReviews Blog about Facebook says that all traces of me have been already removed from Facebook too.

"UPDATE2: Tonight I learned about DataPortability.org and signed my name to that effort.

"I am working with a company to move my social graph to other places and that isn’t allowable under Facebook’s terms of service."

Says TechCrunch:

This will fire the starting gun on all the debates that till now have seemed rather theoretical, could lead to a revolt amongst some Facebook users. There is even now a Facebook group to get his account re-instated. Ché Scoble, anyone?"

The post goes on that although Scoble, "Twittered that will be taking the normal customer service route rather than contacting Facebook’s PR people, the storm that is brewing will not take long to reach Facebookxs most senior people."

Stay tuned

Slashdot it!

Also see:
Scobleizer – Facebook disabled my account, January 3, 2008
TechCrunch – Facebook blocks Scoble for downloading his contacts, sparks revolt, January 3, 2008

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