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[Update] Warn HN: How to accidentally, irreversibly nuke your Facebook account

10 points by jpadvo ↗ HN
Yesterday afternoon I posted about the disaster that happened to my Facebook account: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2256150

Someone at Facebook responded extremely quickly -- yesterday evening they updated documentation (a blog post) to prevent others from accidentally doing this, and when I woke up this morning my account was completely restored.

Thank you whoever at Facebook reads HN and fixed this for me. :)

However, other developers still have broken accounts because of this issue. I hope that it can be fixed for them, too.

http://www.skybondsor.com/blog/undo-test-account-on-facebook

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=90196

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=89194

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=88696

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=85580

http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=75057

2 comments

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tuneupsanjeev
When did that happen to you account? and how was ur account restored?
santoshsah4
Hi i am facing the same problem.Now all i have is just profile image and nothing more.I tried to leave the network but it shows you arenot connected to any network.can some one help me? i m completely lost.....