What Facebook Account Restriction
There are two types of restrictions on Facebook. The company limits your account temporarily or permanently blocks you. A temporary restriction usually lasts 48 hours or one week in specific cases. During such a restriction, you can’t perform certain actions, post comments, share videos, or like existing posts. Overall, your account turns into a read-only mode.
Reasons for Facebook Account Restriction
- Sending Many Friend Requests to Unknown People: If you send dozens of friend requests (especially to unknown people), Facebook may detect it as unusual activity and restrict your account.
- Spamming on Anyone’s Profile: If you like too many posts or write several comments, Facebook may flag your account for misusing the platform.
- Connecting Your Facebook Account With Third-Party Services: Several third-party services let you automate your Facebook account. However, be careful before connecting your Facebook account to unknown apps.
- Posting Hateful or Inappropriate Content: Facebook comes with strict community guidelines for a healthy conversation on the platform. If Facebook moderators find your content violating the company terms and conditions, you are looking at a temporary restriction. If you continue to post bogus content on the platform (once the restriction is lifted), Facebook may permanently ban your account.
- Using Fake Name or Impersonating to be Someone: Avoid impersonating someone on Facebook. It bans your account and lands you in legal trouble. It’s one of the infamous ways to scam people on the platform.
- Breaking Facebook’s Commerce Policies: Facebook’s e-commerce platform, the Marketplace, doesn’t let you sell certain products and services on the platform. If Facebook catches you selling illegal items, medicines, alcohol, and other banned items on Marketplace, the company will permanently ban your account. It’s also one of the reasons why Facebook Marketplace isn’t working for you.
How Long Will My Facebook Account Be Restricted
Facebook doesn’t directly restrict your account. It first warns you of strikes. Here’s what these strikes mean:
- One strike: It’s a warning from Facebook to stop misusing the platform.
- Two to six strikes: Limits you from posting in groups for some time.
- Seven strikes: Limits your account for 24 hours. You can’t share comments, post pictures, or like other content.
- Eight strikes: You can’t create new content for 72 hours.
- Nine strikes: You get a 7-day restriction from creating new content.
- Ten or more strikes: You can’t create new content for 30 days.
How to Unrestrict on Facebook
Step 1: Open Facebook and go to your account.
Step 2: Expand Help & support > Report a problem.
Step 3: Include complete logs and diagnostics in your report.
Step 4: Select the problem type, attach a screenshot, and write down the issue.
It may take a day or two for Facebook to investigate and lift restrictions from your account.
Facebook restricting your account can give a significant blow to your social strategy. Once the situation settles to normal conditions, the company lifts the restriction for everyone.
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Last updated on 20 August, 2024
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Please help me understand what I an doing wrong. I started a clown business on a page and keep getting restricted. I paid a couple of dollars. It’s telling me some strange name is connected to my account. It should be Sharon Ciardiello and the page Candy Curls the clown. It’s very confusing and no one to talk to to help me. Please explain. Ty
Have been restricted from sharing posts on facebook twice. Both times was sent a message that my account was being restricted from some features for 24 hrs because of sharing too many posts within “certain” time constraints which goes against their rules. The posts i shared at that time were to my sister who was in the hospital for heart surgery and said she wanted “all the lighthouse pictures you can give me!”. Wrote to the feedback page on the site and explained all this to them. It seemed like they were leaving me alone after that for some time. Just recently a coworker and friend told me to send him as many vintage car photos as possible. Did that while also continuing to send lighthouse pics to my sister. The other day i received a restriction message again for 24hrs. Waited the 24hrs, begain posting again, and was restricted again for 24hrs! Didn’t seem like there were that many posts so i tried to find out how many a “certain” amount of shares IS and what period of time a person is allowed until its considered worthy to be restricted. Couldn’t locate any standards that would tell me the parameters for this rule! Looked for hours and went around in circles with only vague answers. Meanwhile posts with lions ripping up other animals, borderline porno pics, antisemitic rant, etc. passed through my page as i became more irritated! I can’t post lighthouses and vintage cars to relatives and friends who WANT them while these other folks post THIS crap? There are other things happening on my page that are ridiculous but I don’t want to write a thesis here! I think you get the idea.
I am 91 years old and have been restricted of 6 days. I can’t figure out what I did????
What feedback feature? They just tell me I’m restricted. Never tell me what post or why. No place to ask or reply. Just one sided. No evidence of what I am supposed to have done.
Under settings in your profile area, top right hand corner.
Same here I got a message saying my account has been hacked and I need to secure my account I did what it asked and now I have been restricted for 13 days and when I try to report a problem it doesn’t work
Facebook should be talking to people .I say something that is normal English like bum it’s not a bad word .I have said on a article about elephants being killed by poachers , I also see lots of erotic stuff on Facebook but it doesn’t get deleted.
I just created my Facebook acts few minutes ago and after taking my pic I was restricted and asked to appeal
So why was I restyright away
I see all these scam advertisements originating from China. I see them and report them. Of course facebook says they are not going against community standards when all they have to do it look up the information on the company or product to see that the items do not exist, and are just ai created pictures. Facebook use to be better then this. I posted a link in a group a while back with some advice regarding information another user was seeking on helping their sick kitty. I was of course banned for a day, and the information in the link was relevant to what they needed help with. Meanwhile this same group like many others is being riddled with scams and fake profiles. Also I have heard from a lot of people that their accounts have been hacked, and facebook does nothing to help the user regain use of their account. I lost my account after 13 years to someone using the name Bertab Kelch. I reached out to facebook for help also to be turned away and told they were not impersonating me. I know the account still has to exist because I can still see the page I created dedicated to finding a friend that vanished in 2009. The point is facebook does not care what advertisers and certain other people do as long as they are getting paid. Just watch what you click on is all I am saying. I got scammed on there as well over purchasing a cat tree from the Moledo Company which I later found out was based in China. This same company also advertises under several different names and is now being investigated. It’s just sad we say things that are taken completely out of context and get banned for it, but facebook allows all of these scammers to take gullible people’s money.
I am shocked to be restricted from Facebook, I am 89 years old and enjoyed the little photo.s and sayings on Facebook, I would not offend or break rules, as I am a Christian lady, and do not do negative things, please find a place for me in the Facebook lite again, Sorry for my ignorance of the rules, will not repeat. It says I was going to fast, what does that mean?
its a MYSTERY process to end up in LIMITED MODE w/o a real idea as to why the situation occurred. Without such identifying information how is anyone to curb their activity.
My account was disabled right after i created it. The system left no clues or comments stating why it was disabled. So the next thing that happened their system said that i had filed an appeal, when I dont even know how to file an appeal on facebook. Its obvious too many people allow these sites to pick and choose who they want to be a part of there system.. They cant be too smart if they designed a site that doesn’t even have the decency to tell you want has happened. Sounds like a butch of idiots to me. So they probably did me a huge favor…..
Account restricted for the third time in a week. No violations of Facebook Community Standards, no reason at than I can tell. Infuriating, what’s going on?
I cannot get on Facebook I do not know why I have been restricted because I have followed all the rules that I always do now can someone please let me know what I can do at this point
Facebook has been constantly restricting my account for well over a month now. I think Facebook/Meta is flawed. I am never told what i violated. I just read posts and occasion share posts that are of good content.
Me, too. They never tell/show me what post. Never explain what is wrong with it (so I can learn) There is no way to contact them to ask. It’s all ONE SIDED. Whatever their whim is.
Same here. I’m requesting friendship of people I don’t know. I’m asking people who rescue animals and others along their lines. They also thought I could be spamming.
Same with me!!!! Account restricted for the third time in a week. No violations of Facebook Community Standards, no reason at than I can see, I haven’t posted anything!!! Infuriating, what’s going on?
Is anybody here on this chat forum has any information for me to help me regain access to my Facebook account it’s been hijacked I greatly appreciate it as of right now I’m trying to bypass the 48 hour wait that they applied on my account. I’d appreciate any sort of help regaining access to my account this s***** person keeps doing this to me over and over again and it’s really getting old but they always have these new methods and tricks I need all the help I can get thank you.
I was hacked a couple of months ago and shut out of my own profile I’ve had for 12 years. When I created a new profile and began sending out Friend Requests to my closest friends and relatives, Facebook shut me down saying I had violated Community Stds by “impersonating” myself!
I could read FB but not post or comment or reply to anyone.
This week, I created one last attempted FB profile using my formal name, William Lines, and today FB shut it down and warned me that I may be banned for a lifetime. They gave me one chance to appeal, but the appeal is in the form of a selfie for some reson. I’ve never been able to tell FB what happened when I was hacked, they do not seem to care. I followed their instructions today and uploaded a portrait shot of my face from my phone. FB responded that they will consider my “appeal” and get back to me in 24 hrs or less.
I get a pop-up when trying to share stuff on Facebook. I try rarely post anything original on FB. I normally am merely sharing things I saw on FB to friends that I think might enjoy them. My pop=up states that I am restricted for 5 days, and from what I just read above indicates that I have evidently have 5 strikes against me. If the material I’m posting is taken from FaceBook, why was I allowed to share it to start with?
I would like to know just why my account is in suspension! I use FB to wish people I know Happy birthday and occasionally read what is sent to me . So what happened? I don’t be requesting “friends.” Matter of fact I posted that if there is a “friends” request, then it is NOT from me. So what the heck is going on?
Seems ive been restricted for sending too many friends request. How many friends request can i send at one time? I made other pages and was suspended for some reason then finally i get one that doesnt get suspended only to be restricted.
Sez I’m restricted?
What,?
Why?
What did I do to be in restricted?
Please help me Please and
Thank you
what about the last normal folk who dont have a FB account and go to public facebook sites like companies and businesses. we keep getting locked out after 10 seconds. why ????