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Friday, January 02, 2009
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The issue of Filmmaker that's at the printer right now has a piece by Lance Weiler about data portability -- how we should be advocating for our right to carry with us our social network data as we trek across the 'net. In the piece he mentions the filmmaker Arin Crumley and his recently deleted Facebook page. Writes Arin on his new Facebook profile, "The old one was disabled by Facebook because I had over 2,000 friends, so for this one, we have to have met in person for me to add you." Lance's warning resonated today once more as, over at Ain't It Cool News, Harry Knowles notes that his Facebook page has been disabled:

Well, apparently my account had too much "activity" around my Birthday. I had received a couple of thousand Birthday well-wishes, and apparently FACEBOOK admins have some kneejerk to accounts that have that level of activity. I don't know if this is the case, but as I hadn't violated any of their "codes of conduct" I can't imagine what else it could be. And FACEBOOK doesn't seem to want to repond to inquiries of any kind
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So, as our company seems to be pretty decent, this is as good a time as any to note that Filmmaker's Facebook profile got deleted this past week as well. Now, our first Facebook profile was as a person, which is something you're not supposed to do when you're a company or organization. We didn't know that when we signed up, and when we did, we came up with a fan page and asked everyone to join that instead. Still, we had way more people on the profile page (almost 5,000) than we do on the fan site, and that's probably why it was deleted. Anyway, if you are on Facebook and you liked getting the occasional posting or piece of news from us, consider searching for us (or clicking here) and becoming a fan so you'll receive them once more.


# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 1/02/2009 10:14:00 PM
Comments (6)

 
I'm curious to know whether it was a Facebook "profile" or "page" that was deleted in regards to Crumley. I know that when I created a CineVegas "profile" it was deleted since it wasn't a person. "Pages" are the best route to go with a company or organization.
# posted by Anonymous Roger Erik Tinch @ 1/03/2009 2:28 AM  

 
With Crumley I think it was a profile page. What I left out, and which he says in Filmmaker, is that he used the words "BUY FOUR-EYED MONSTERS DVD" in a post and he thinks that might have run afoul of the TOS.

The Filmmaker page was a profile too, so I knew it was going to get deleted at some point. The thing about "pages" is that people are less likely to join them them. That's why I posted -- I'd love to get some of the people who were our profile friends back to our Filmmaker fan page.
# posted by Blogger Scott Macaulay @ 1/03/2009 12:33 PM  

 
In my opinion facebook has gotten to big and out of control, if it's going to delete filmmakers. It's a good thing that smaller social network are starting form, as to handle the overflow and put filmmakers in their own markets, instead of a blip on facebook that can get erased. Ning has some great filmmaking communities that are growing like "Fans Of Film" "Reel Ladies" "Friendly Film Finder"
This is just to name off some favorites
# posted by Anonymous Michael @ 1/04/2009 7:08 PM  

 
Back to MySpace for all of us. Too many weird restrictions on Facebook.

Good thing I haven't deleted my MySpace & Friendster accounts.
# posted by Blogger The Sujewa @ 1/04/2009 9:23 PM  

 
i have always preferred myspace. i have several pages. and. i have "friends" who have thousands upon thousands of friends. i have also met some really great people there. ah well. facebook could have been a good networking situation for filmmakers. hm. wonder what the issue is.....
# posted by Blogger blue eyed cherokee @ 1/05/2009 9:21 PM  

 
They're really really strict about promoting on the 'ol FB. My account got deleted when I tried to notify all my "friends" about our special edition DVD - ended up being fine when we did it from the film/fan page, but they're adamant about keeping the personal stuff personal....unless of course you're Steve Japan; http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1247684229&ref=profile
# posted by Blogger Todd S @ 1/07/2009 1:34 AM  


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