Facebook is one of the largest social media networks in the world which is used by people of all ages. There are more than 2.6 billion active users, there is no stop in the growth of Facebook. It has so many features which make all the users stay active in their Facebook accounts.
It has features like news feed, friends, timeline, wall, comments, likes, reactions, notifications, messages, groups and so much more. While there are people who look only towards its negative side, let’s look at a few benefits of Facebook.
Benefits of using Facebook in the right way:
Every user must know that when Facebook is handled properly as per the guidelines set by them, then Facebook is temporarily locked, such activities will not happen.
- Marketing is expensive, we all know that but marketing using Facebook is of low cost which can also help you in gaining profit.
- In your business page, you can add photos or videos about the business you are doing. This can lead you to attract more customers to your business.
- In your page and also in your account, you can add little details about your business. There are many other benefits in Facebook.
Why does Facebook lock accounts?
Like a coin has two sides, in Facebook, while there are so many benefits that are available in Facebook accounts, there are also some causes which can affect the safety of an individual. For Facebook, safety is considered as their most preferred priority.
When Facebook feels like there is some sort of security issue there in Facebook, then it will immediately lock it until it confirms that particular account is secure.
Reasons for your account to get locked:
- When a user uses a fake name, in such cases, if Facebook recognizes it, the account may be blocked.
- Within a short time, when you post so much content about anything on others' walls or groups, you will be considered as spam and your account will be disabled.
- When a user creates a page in a way that they mimic another person, even without any warning your account may be locked.
- In case, you have joined a lot of groups. The maximum number of groups a user can be in is 200 per user.
- Even after attaining 5000 friends, you sent so many friend requests. Please note that a user can have only 5000 friends per account.
- When you have commented, posted something offensive.
- If Facebook identifies that your Facebook has been hacked by someone, in this case until it confirms that your account is safe, your account will be locked.
- When there is some sort of suspicious activity going on around you like an immediate increase in posting posts or sharing links or messaging can also lock your account.
- When your account gets too many reports for abusive contents, comments, your account will be definitely locked by Facebook.
- To know more about this you can also read the Facebook community guidelines.
How to Recover locked fb account?
There are few ways through which you can easily get back your locked account. Even if you have done no suspicious activity, if Facebook finds some others are doing something against your account, then there are chances for your account to get locked. So when you realize that your account has been locked, you will have to do one of the two methods given below:
Method 1: you will be having a bunch of trustworthy friends, give them the nominated URL, they have to visit that URL and retrieve a code, so now you will have to enter that code in the required box.
Method 2: answer the security questions that you have set while creating your account.
Other ways to recover:
- Try clearing all your cache, cookies and history and then log in to your account.
- Follow as per the instructions that are given by Facebook after an account has been locked.
Things to remember after your account is unlocked:
- Do not do anything that violates the guidelines that are set by Facebook.
- Never comment or post anything either offensive or abusive from your Facebook account.
- Say no to proxy sites.
- Login from any one of your devices. Avoid logging in from multiple devices.
- Do not try to do everything at a stretch, take time and slowly develop your Facebook account.
- Sometimes, after following all the steps to recover your account, it may take time. So until then you will have to wait patiently.
Note: while you create any email account, do not forget to set security questions. Most of us skip this step and later when issues like this come up, we cannot get access to the account easily because we skipped this step.
Also if you are new to Facebook or any other social media, before using do not forget to read its guidelines. When a user uses their account properly without spreading any hate speech or abusive speech and handles the account carefully, then there is no chance for your account to be locked.
