Facebook Disables Robert Scoble's Account

Facebook disabled my account � Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger

It looks like Facebook has disabled my friend Robert Scoble's Facebook account. Apparently Robert was running some sort of script on the site and got a pretty terrible email from Facebook over it:

"Hello,

Our systems indicate that you’ve been highly active on Facebook lately and viewing pages at a quick enough rate that we suspect you may be running an automated script. This kind of Activity would be a violation of our Terms of Use and potentially of federal and state laws.

As a result, your account has been disabled. Please reply to this email with a description of your recent activity on Facebook. In addition, please confirm with us that in the future you will not scrape or otherwise attempt to obtain in any manner information from our website except as permitted by our Terms of Use, and that you will immediately delete and not use in any manner any such information you may have previously obtained.

We reserve the right to take any appropriate action in connection with any activities that violate our Terms of Use and/or applicable laws, including termination of your account and pursuit of legal remedies.

Please reply to this email.

Thank you,
Facebook Customer Support"

I think Robert was running some sort of script to scrape his social information from the site.

This pretty much sucks. Facebook should care more about their users and allow them the portability of data that they deserve.