facebook show how to run a social networking site without allowing people to be sociable

being a regular enough facebook user i get about 50 friend requests a day on facebook, some days double that, i spend more time on myspace & have over 53,000 contacts on there - i go to answer a bunch of friend requests on facebook today & get this rather annoying message “You have been blocked from adding friends because you repeatedly misused this feature. This block will last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. When you are allowed to reuse this feature, please proceed with caution. Further misuse may result in your account being permanently disabled. For further information, please visit our FAQ page."- so when you get sent so many requests you cannot respond to them? what a stupid way to run a site. i will be contacting them immediately about this. If people send you requests you should be able to respond to them without being accused of spamming or being a spam-bot. utterly ridiculous way to run a so called social networking site.

it should not matter if i have 50 or 50 million friends, if they advertise to be a social networking site they should realise that some people out there have one hell of a social circle & just because they do it doesn’t make them suspicious or guilty of anything other than having an abundance of friends.

I understand more than most the need for security when it comes to protecting people from phising sites & spam-bots but there should be a validation system in place to filter out the genuine users, as if captcha’s wasn’t enough - all my requests I answered went through captcha’s yet it still proceeded to ban me from either accepting or adding any more contacts.

Windows live blocks accounts

After 3 days of waiting my hotmail/windows live account has finally been unfrozen. To the best of my knowledge it started on Sunday night when I tried to send an email to a contact, I was met with a message that informed I could not send out going mail yet I could receive mail. I thought maybe it was a glitch with the site but after trying again a few hours later I found it was far from a glitch. It seems that my account was frozen because of hot mails new extreme measures in filtering out spam. The funny thing is that particular email address was private & only gets used maybe once every two weeks. When I got to the forum to report what had happened & to ask for help from the support team I was greeted with a endless barrage of people claiming to have the same problem. The forum posts were so crazy that each most was only 10 or so seconds old. There was one particular person who said they had been waiting 3 months to get a response from the support team. After writing about 3 postings they finally got back to me & last night fixed my account. even though the account is back they still have not offered any kind of explanation what so ever as to why the account was frozen in the first place. I’m figuring this has happened to many users of the hotmail service so I’d be interested in hearing from anyone else who this happened to, drop a line in the comments section if the same things has been done to you - and if so was there a resolve.

My own account feedback - most posts on the forum are not being answered.