The new facebook GUI has a feature where you can link the RSS feed of your blog to your profile. If you do that, every time you post a new entry in your blog, it gets added as a note.
Of course, they allow only one blog RSS. In the simplest case, I have 3 RSS feeds, one for my photo blog and two for this blog [entries and comments]. I added my photo blog first – then changed my mind and added my text blog next. I wasn’t sure which of the two blogs I want to link to my account.
I wasn’t satisfied with this setup, so I wrote a Yahoo Pipe to link these 3 RSS feeds into one and used the RSS feed of the Pipe in my facebook profile.
Now, I didn’t realize two things.
a) Facebook’s RSS aggregation is stupid. Instead of fetching the last 20 [or 10] results alone, it fetches all the entries from your blogs the minute you add them.
b) They don’t really think that anyone would have more than one blog and if they did, they would have to experiment till they get it right.
So I got a warning message in facebook saying that my actions were in ‘violation’ of facebook’s terms of use and my account might be disabled.
Of course, I was curious enough to find out what the heck I did wrong, so I hit the ‘Notes’ page in my facebook profile.
Now I get a nice popup which says my Notes is blocked and the block will be removed whenever they deem fit. That dialog had a link to go back to the home page and a ‘Close’ button.
Of course, I hit the ‘Close’ button and I saw that my notes page was intact.
I should have probably left it there so that only my notes page was blocked but my profile wasn’t.
Of course I didn’t.
I tried to delete a note. I wanted to see if there is a way to delete all my notes and unblock my note page
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That caused facebook to log me out and disable my account.
So much for that new feature.
If anyone knows how to get back into facebook, let me know












