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Your profile being disabled may have been unfair. However some of the examples you cite from Google make sense:

"Facebook just disabled my account. I started a group for people with the same last name as me and i started sending messages to people with the same name to join."

"I added a number of friends from my College because of the mere fact that people in the same school should know one another."

"My account was disabled a few hours ago.. because I was friending too many people."

I do not want to be friends on facebook with people I've never met in person. It sounds like Facebook is trying to prevent the same problem I had on Linkedin. Just because you worked for Big Company X or used to go to X school, it doesn't mean I want to add everyone from those places on my friend list, nor do I want constant emails or notices from Facebook of these people trying to add me. I don't want 'friend request' spam. This is the reason I killed my Linkedin account. In general I don't want tons of people I don't know, messaging me on Facebook unless I actually met them face to face in the past.



> I started a group for people with the same last name as me

This is blatant discrimination against people with common names and common surnames! They obviously wouldn't like the Lloyd Woods' Newsletter: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/others/newsletter...

(If you're wondering how hundreds of people called Lloyd Wood refer to each other then the convention is to use middle name and/or location.)


> nor do I want constant emails or notices

Is Facebook unaware of Nagle's algorithm? It is trivial to reduce bandwidth by batching notices. You could even set the maximum frequency yourself. Or is this not implemented because it would make the service less addictive and less viral?




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