Here's an update on my Facebook account status. Facebook recently suspended my membership for evidently violating their "Community Standards" and all my posts and albums are now in Facebook Prison for an undetermined time. I can't get any specific info on their concerns and their regular appeal process did not resolve their concerns.

Last week, my wife managed to initiate a chat on my behalf with Facebook help staff (after a three-hour wait) and once they confirmed what happened (the notice and my appeal to confirm my identity) they deferred to the ultimate decision by their “Policy Team” and the person she was chatting with still would not (or could not) provide any specific violations.

This experience reminds me of my early reading of a Franz Kalfa novel.

Facebook offered to download my account “information” which turns out to be only my personal info, not my albums or my posts or responses from others.

We’re thinking now that there is little hope that my account will be restored or as I've quipped "That steamer has left the harbor!" thinking of the Titanic's ill-fated voyage.

I doubt very much if this is an isolated incident. The Bots most likely have disabled thousands of accounts for the same general reasons.

My own account spanned more than 15 years and included 100s of photo albums, some from photos my wife and I took at sea music festivals and other of nautical historical interest (credited to their proper source such as the Library of Congress). There certainly wasn't anything erotic or racist in the imagery and while I had some sharp discussions with some folks about current political matters I wouldn't describe that discussion as bullying; that's not my style of discussion. The fact that I had a recent Facebook clone who I tried to draw their attention to may have triggered this action but I would have thought it was obvious from our home pages which of us were the clone.

There is a remote chance that someone here has a human contact inside META/Facebook Central that might prove helpful, or at least identify more specifically what the concern was that put me in Facebook Prison, without warning. My wife and I have followed up a few leads but so far nothing has penetrated their firewall.

Do feel free to describe your own experiences with Facebook. And if you have suggestions for further follow-up, please post them here or send me an email (which you can find at my website).