Meta announces ‘Facebook Jail’ reforms that prioritize better policy explanations over ‘timeouts.’
Facebook announced that rather than suspending users’ posting rights and throwing them in Facebook jail, it will instead warn users when they break its rules.
The most of offences will result in a warning after the first strike. Users will no longer have access to some features if Facebook deletes more postings. Sixth strike marks the beginning of Facebook Jail sentences.
Meta added that the old rules will be the same to violations such as terrorism, child exploitation, etc and offenders will face immediate restrictions against violation.
A single strike usually results in a warning with no account restrictions. Under the new policy, if a user has two to six strikes on their account, they will be banned from using some functions, such as posting in a Facebook group, for a “For an indefinite period.” According to Meta, a user will be prohibited from posting for three days after receiving eight strikes, seven days after receiving nine strikes, and thirty days after receiving ten strikes or more.
Let’s know some Facts & Info about Facebook Jail
1. What is Facebook jail?
Facebook jail occurs when an account is disabled or specific functionalities are blocked for violating the platform’s community guidelines, whether it related to personal or business pages. Inappropriate content, repeated multiple posts, or excessively loved posts are all examples of violations. The consequences can include having your account permanently deleted or being temporarily prohibited from posting for a few hours, days, or weeks.
2. How to get in Facebook jail?
Facebook relies a set of guidelines as a basis for making choices regarding what users are permitted to discuss on the platform. Although there are human moderators who maintain these standards..
- Nudity or provocative posts: Facebook has an automatic policy of suspending users who share any malicious content.
- Hate speech and personal attacks: Facebook bans any user or group posting threats to any person, page, or group.
- Posting the same content frequently: Facebook can suspend your account if it detects it uses automated software to comment or like any post.
- Spam link, messages, posts: You can get put in Facebook jail for sending unsolicited posts to users. Avoid sending spam links, bulk messages, and multiple post images and links to people’s timelines.
- Too many friend or group requests in a day: Facebook may block your account if it detects over 50 friend requests in a day. If you want to form a secret group or join one, limit it to 10 Facebook groups per day.
- Fake & copied posts: Facebook can ban accounts that post fake and copied content without proper author acknowledgment.
- Suspicious payments: When running ads on Facebook, pay using authorized credit cards under your name to avoid fraud cases and getting banned.
- Simultaneous logins with multiple devices: You can only have one Facebook account per device. If you need to log into multiple accounts at the same time, you can use a VPN that hides IP addresses or unblocks websites, or you can use another device.
3. How to tell if someone is in Facebook jail?
You’ll either receive an email or see the notice “You can’t post right now” if you attempt to publish or send a private message on Facebook. Even if Facebook did alert you before restricting your account, it would be too late to take any action.
When you are in Facebook Jail you will encounter below restriction
- You cannot post on your timeline or any pages and groups.
- You cannot like or leave comments on anyone else’s posts or pictures.
- You are blocked from accessing your account.
- You cannot publish posts on your page, whether as an admin or using your personal Facebook profile.
4. What can you do while in Facebook jail?
If you have violated the rules and you are dragged in Facebook jail you can’t do anything but to wait to release from jail.
However, File an Appeal: If you want to make the most of your time, you can appeal for a review of the ban. Facebook will notify you of the status of your appeal via email.
5. Facebook jail for no reason
Although there are many potential causes, typically repeated violations of Facebook’s regulations, a large number of unapproved advertising, or multiple user complaints and furious responses are what lead to the decision to ban your account. There is a chance to restore the account, provided that you didn’t do anything truly bad.
6. How long am I in Facebook jail?
There are two kinds of Facebook restrictions: Temporary and Permanent restriction.
Temporary – In this scheme, Facebook would disable your account in a temporary blocking setting for a specified period of time, usually from a few hours or few days to 30 days max. Once you get over this period you can access your account as usual you was using before.
Permanent – Your account may be permanently deleted by Facebook at any moment for any reason. You won’t be able to log in or publish anything if your account is removed. The length of the suspension determines the severity of the ban on Facebook, with multiple suspension levels for certain violations. Your account may be restricted or even banned if you violate Facebook’s rules and regulations while marketing on the platform.
A ban, whether temporary or permanent, might cause you to lose followers and affect your business.
7. What comes after 30 days in Facebook jail
Facebook blocks users for a maximum of 30 days. Once you have passed this time frame, you are released from Facebook jail and are given access to your account.
8. How to avoid Facebook jail?
Being locked up in Facebook jail is not pleasurable, below are the few tips which you may follow to avoid the jail sentence:
- Understand How Facebook Work.
- Share Accessible And Permanent Personal Information.
- Block People Who Can Be Harmful To You.
- Be careful while tagging people.
- Never add an individual to a group without permission.
- Don’t make use of your personal account as a business account.
- Send friend requests to only the people you know.
