All of a sudden as I was scrolling through Facebook a notice pops up stating that my account was suspended for 180 days for going against their community standards. I could appeal at any time during those 180 days. I appealed immediately and was instructed to provide a selfie video orchestrated by Facebook. "turn you head and follow the direction of the arrows". I did this much to my chagrin and they said they would decide via a message email. Today I received an email stating my account was suspended indefinitely with no further explanation or a chance to appeal a second time.

Anybody else have this experience. I lost hundreds of family pictures.

Please, serious response only.

Personally would gleefully accept suspension over posting my ugly crusty old mug on the internet, seriously.

1 hour ago, novacova said:

Personally would gleefully accept suspension over posting my ugly crusty old mug on the internet, seriously.

Unhelpful......☹️

How is this related to Chiang Mai?

2 hours ago, streetlite said:

I lost hundreds of family pictures.

You are the first person I ever knew who thought that Facebook was the place to keep pictures. How did you get that idea?

2 hours ago, streetlite said:

All of a sudden as I was scrolling through Facebook a notice pops up stating that my account was suspended for 180 days for going against their community standards. I could appeal at any time during those 180 days. I appealed immediately and was instructed to provide a selfie video orchestrated by Facebook. "turn you head and follow the direction of the arrows". I did this much to my chagrin and they said they would decide via a message email. Today I received an email stating my account was suspended indefinitely with no further explanation or a chance to appeal a second time.

Anybody else have this experience. I lost hundreds of family pictures.

Please, serious response only.

Thinking of every report I have done on suspect profiles that was not against FB policy, I'm wondering what a hell you did to deserve suspension at all?

9 minutes ago, NotEinstein said:

How is this related to Chiang Mai?

Chiang Mai is a catchall for guys like him. It’s not a brain trust.

49 minutes ago, petermik said:

Unhelpful......☹️

How is this helpful?😶

FB suspension seems to be a common complaint, and also once you get locked out, it is very difficult to get back in. I have friends who have lost their account permanently. It does feel like the admin over there seems a bit absent, or has some strange agendas.

26 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Thinking of every report I have done on suspect profiles that was not against FB policy, I'm wondering what a hell you did to deserve suspension at all?

Agree Facebook has never removed the many obvious scammers and fake profiles I've reported. Maybe the OP received a fake Phishing post?

2 hours ago, novacova said:

Personally would gleefully accept suspension over posting my ugly crusty old mug on the internet, seriously.

At least now they have your biometric face scan stored on their drives. They can sell that for good money to data brokers. Maybe that's why they are doing it. Forcing people to have their faces scanned. Seems very underhanded to me.

3 hours ago, streetlite said:

Anybody else have this experience. I lost hundreds of family pictures.

Please, serious response only.

2 hours ago, novacova said:

Personally would gleefully accept suspension over posting my ugly crusty old mug on the internet, seriously.

1 hour ago, petermik said:

Unhelpful......☹️

14 minutes ago, novacova said:

How is this helpful?😶

"Please serious response only" understand now?

Hppened to me s well

3 hours ago, streetlite said:

All of a sudden as I was scrolling through Facebook a notice pops up stating that my account was suspended for 180 days for going against their community standards. I could appeal at any time during those 180 days. I appealed immediately and was instructed to provide a selfie video orchestrated by Facebook. "turn you head and follow the direction of the arrows". I did this much to my chagrin and they said they would decide via a message email. Today I received an email stating my account was suspended indefinitely with no further explanation or a chance to appeal a second time.

Anybody else have this experience. I lost hundreds of family pictures.

Please, serious response only.

Did you post any photos/videos of yourself on FB ?

They check the uploaded video with any photos you previously uploaded

Inflammatory post removed

@Harrisfan

3 hours ago, petermik said:

"Please serious response only" understand now?

5 hours ago, novacova said:

Personally would gleefully accept suspension over posting my ugly crusty old mug on the internet, seriously.

Understand now? Good grief already, seriously.

12 hours ago, petermik said:

Unhelpful......☹️

Agree unhelpful.

They closed my account, the reason was that they discovered I had 2 facebook accounts in my own name. Not allowed.

I had the same problem on Christmas day. No idea what upset them. Did the appeal thing with the head turning etc., About an hour later was told my appeal had been approved. Have no idea what caused the suspension. I assumed it was some glitch in their algorithm.

On 1/1/2026 at 9:03 PM, Hummin said:

Thinking of every report I have done on suspect profiles that was not against FB policy, I'm wondering what a hell you did to deserve suspension at all?

Never heard of that type of suspension. He must have done something reallyyyy bad. He might have pissed a few people that complained or reported him. Place private information or any type of pictures on Facebook is not a good idea. BTW, Facebook is full of "ex intel agents" like CIA, maybe Unit 8200, etc. Good luck to him! MintPress has a very good article about this.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebook-content-policy/281307/

It is an uncomfortable job for anyone trying to draw the line between “harmful content and protecting freedom of speech. It’s a balance”, Aaron says. In this official Facebook video, Aaron identifies himself as the manager of “the team that writes the rules for Facebook”, determining “what is acceptable and what is not.” Thus, he and his team effectively decide what content the platform’s 2.9 billion active users see and what they don’t see.

Aaron is being interviewed in a bright warehouse-turned-studio. He is wearing a purple sweater and blue jeans. He comes across as a very likable, smiley person. It is not an easy job, of course, but someone has to make those calls. “Transparency is incredibly important in the work that I do,” he says.

Aaron is CIA. Or at least he was until July 2019, when he left his job as a senior analytic manager at the agency to become senior product policy manager for misinformation at Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. In his 15-year career, Aaron Berman rose to become a highly influential part of the CIA. For years, he prepared and edited the president of the United States’ daily brief, “wr[iting] and overs[eeing] intelligence analysis to enable the President and senior U.S. officials to make decisions on the most critical national security issues,” especially on “the impact of influence operations on social movements, security, and democracy,” his LinkedIn profile reads. None of this is mentioned in the Facebook video.

Berman’s case is far from unique, however. Studying Meta’s reports, as well as employment websites and databases, MintPress has found that Facebook has recruited dozens of individuals from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as well as many more from other agencies like the FBI and Department of Defense (DoD). These hires are primarily in highly politically sensitive sectors such as trust, security and content moderation, to the point where some might feel it becomes difficult to see where the U.S. national security state ends and Facebook begins.

In previous investigations, this author has detailed how TikTok is flooded with NATO officials, how former FBI agents abound at Twitter, and how Reddit is led by a former war planner for the NATO think tank, the Atlantic Council. But the sheer scale of infiltration of Facebook blows these away. Facebook, in short, is utterly swarming with spooks.

On 1/2/2026 at 8:54 AM, scorecard said:

Agree unhelpful.

They closed my account, the reason was that they discovered I had 2 facebook accounts in my own name. Not allowed.

Did you use the same phone or computer to log in both accounts?

Streetlite, this may have been an attempt to hack your FB account. About 3 weeks ago I made a comment on a FB post that interested me, and within seconds another window covered the FB page saying I needed to enter a code that was given to verify if I was a human. After that, another page appeared saying I needed to take a selfie to verify if I was the owner of my account. Thank God I immediately became suspicious, so I asked ChatGPT if I should proceed, and it told me I was being hacked and not to proceed with the next step or the hacker would have access to all of my FB records. Facebook then sent me an email suspending my account but gave me 180 days to appeal the decision. That email was legitimate, and FB was using the suspension to lock my account so the hacker could not access it. I tried to make the appeal, but it took me straight back to the hacker's page asking for the selfie. To this day I have not been able to access anything related to FB, and with no possibility of every accessing my account again, I have just decided to be extremely happy that I am finally rid of Facebook and Messenger. I feel so much better now. Little did I know that I had actually developed an addiction to it all, so I am much better off now. I had tons of photos and videos on FB too, but chances are I would never have even looked at them again, so no great loss. Just let it go my friend and move on with life.

1 hour ago, kidneyw said:

I had the same problem on Christmas day. No idea what upset them. Did the appeal thing with the head turning etc., About an hour later was told my appeal had been approved. Have no idea what caused the suspension. I assumed it was some glitch in their algorithm.

did the face scan thing and sent it only to realize after that my camera was taped over. Cannot reappeal.

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

Welcome to the New World Order

Thank you all....Guess I can live without FB and probably better off without it. I did join intially 15 years ago to stay in touch with former students and friends since relocating here. Now I no longer exist in their world. I'm 78 years old so they all probably think I died. Oh well........

On 1/2/2026 at 9:30 AM, streetlite said:

All of a sudden as I was scrolling through Facebook a notice pops up stating that my account was suspended for 180 days for going against their community standards. I could appeal at any time during those 180 days. I appealed immediately and was instructed to provide a selfie video orchestrated by Facebook. "turn you head and follow the direction of the arrows". I did this much to my chagrin and they said they would decide via a message email. Today I received an email stating my account was suspended indefinitely with no further explanation or a chance to appeal a second time.

Anybody else have this experience. I lost hundreds of family pictures.

Please, serious response only.

Exact same thing happened to me last week. Unfortunately, there is no one you can chat with to find a solution. If you dig deep enough, you can send a "feedback" message, but nobody will reply. My account was disabled for "violation of standards". But, I didn't do anything different from what I've been doing for the past 10 years or more.

On 1/2/2026 at 12:27 PM, spidermike007 said:

FB suspension seems to be a common complaint, and also once you get locked out, it is very difficult to get back in. I have friends who have lost their account permanently. It does feel like the admin over there seems a bit absent, or has some strange agendas.

Sign of doing something right ... wll, at least a short term placement in FB "jail" May get worse with AI algorithms without human discretion. Hmm, maybe I best not post this statement on FB. I might be cited for questioning the Facebook AI (the AI might follow the same lack of reasoning as the current USA administration).

See it as a blessing.

On 1/2/2026 at 9:30 AM, streetlite said:

All of a sudden as I was scrolling through Facebook a notice pops up stating that my account was suspended for 180 days for going against their community standards. I could appeal at any time during those 180 days. I appealed immediately and was instructed to provide a selfie video orchestrated by Facebook. "turn you head and follow the direction of the arrows". I did this much to my chagrin and they said they would decide via a message email. Today I received an email stating my account was suspended indefinitely with no further explanation or a chance to appeal a second time.

Anybody else have this experience. I lost hundreds of family pictures.

Please, serious response only.

I was in the same shoe.

Same process.

They ask the photo identification, for blocking my (your) attempt, for set up a new account, under your name, and photos.

I was deleted, because i broadcasted some true facts of history, and actual happenings, what is not compatibile with the ideology of the Facebook owners.

Sorriful the messenger surface was lost together, with some not saved photos, and documents.

I got the same treatment a few years back. You basically have no recourse. It is all computers, so you won't get a personal response from them.

But, you can start a new profile. Modify your name slightly. It also helps to use a different phone number.

Use whatever address you like.

Don't place pics on there that are not copies. They will not guarantee anything.

7 hours ago, GoodieAfterDark said:

Did you use the same phone or computer to log in both accounts?

THis happened about 6 or 7 years ago, I can't recall the details you mention.

Just now, scorecard said:

This happened about 6 or 7 years ago, phone no the same, only ever had 1 number from the start up of mobile phone numbers. Computer would be notebook but I can't recall when I bought a new notebook, quite a few years back, prhaps 6 or 7 years ago.