12/07/2026
TWO MONTHS LATER, FACEBOOK STILL HAS NOT TOLD ME WHAT I DID WRONG
Today makes it exactly two months since Facebook restricted my account and stopped recommending my posts for no reason
It all started on May 12th.
I opened my Facebook account as usual,
only to see a message saying that my account had been restricted.
The notification asked me to click and find out what was affecting my account.
I clicked it.
It took me to another page where I was asked to submit an appeal.
I immediately appealed.
Not up to five minutes later,
another message appeared on my dashboard.
“Your account will remain restricted.”
Ha!
I just looked at my phone and asked myself,
“Wetin I do?”
At first, I wasn’t too bothered.
I thought it was something that would be resolved
within 24 hours…
or at most, 48 hours.
But 48 hours turned into seven days.
Omo…
I started thinking.
Maybe it was because I had posted one content that wasn’t originally mine.
Because I know how Facebook frowns against unoriginal content.
So I quickly deleted the post.
Then I went back to check.
Still…
Meta Business Support didn’t lift the restriction.
Then another thought came to my mind.
“Oh! Maybe it was the post about de@th.”
Because during that time, I posted about the de@th of a friend.
So I deleted that post too.
I went back to check.
Still…
Meta force or whatever they call themselves....they didn’t fix my account.
At that point, I became desperate.
I literally started deleting every post I made on that particular day,
thinking maybe one of them had triggered the restriction.
Omo…
This 'Aro Meta' still refused to remove the restriction.
From that day onward,
every content I posted kept getting very low views and poor engagement...
because my account was no longer being recommended.
Meta…Why na?
Then I decided to buy their verification mark to give me access to speak with them.
Because I had watched a video on YouTube
The video said that if you really want to speak to Facebook customer support one-on-one,
you need to subscribe to Meta Verified and get the blue badge.
I didn’t hesitate.
I paid for the verification.
After buying the blue tick…
For the first time, I had direct access to chat with Facebook support.
“Finally… now that I can speak with them directly, they will remove this restriction.” so I thought
The first support agent I chatted with
asked me whether I had violated any of Facebook’s Community Standards.
I told her,
“Please check my timeline yourself.”
Look at the kind of content I create.
I don’t run a gossip blog.
I’m not one of those pages that post every random thing they see on the internet.
I have my own niche.
I focus on business, real-life stories, and Egba culture.
After going back and forth with her in the chat,
she asked if she could call me.
I said,
“Why not?”
Maybe this was finally the moment they would fix everything.
I gave her my phone number.
A few moments later, she called.
She started speaking with a strong Indian accent.
Omo…
I had to strain my ears just to understand what she was saying.
For almost twenty minutes, we kept talking back and forth.
At the end of the conversation…
Nothing happened
All she told me was to keep posting.
The restriction will be lifted.”
I felt so frustrated and stressed.
After two more days,
I contacted Facebook support again.
This time, it was a male support agent.
We started chatting.
Then he also asked if he could call me.
I immediately replied,
“No abeg…
I’m tired.
Can’t you people just fix this goddamn thing?
Why all this stress?”
After that conversation…
Still no solution.
Throughout all my conversations with Facebook support, I kept asking just one simple question.
“Why did you restrict my account?”
None of those Facebook agents could answer
Even the customer support agents seemed powerless.
they were just there as figureheads.
They can't fix pin.
All they knew how to say was,
“We’re sorry.”
“We understand your frustration.”
“We apologize.”
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
They would spend your time apologizing without solving the actual problem.
At one point, I almost replied,
“If I blow your mouth, you will be sorry, werey"
So Facebook can just wake up any day, restrict a hardworking creator’s account for no reason.
Imagine if content creation was your only source of income.
Facebook no care.
They will destr0y your business…
And there is nothing you can do about it.
Facebook doesn’t really care about its creators.
Mark Zuckerberg is more interested in the billions of dollars Meta makes every year from Africa.
He is not ready to employ enough capable real human beings to properly review cases like this.
Instead, everything seems to be left in the hands of automated systems...robots
Someone once told me that Facebook deliberately restricts some creators so they can pay fewer people
E be like say na true
Even if I truly did something wrong…
Shouldn’t I receive a warning first?
Shouldn’t Facebook clearly tell me what rule I broke?
Instead, they simply wake up one day, restrict my account, and move on because they have the power to do so.
Or after I appealed
and even contacted customer support,
shouldn’t someone have taken a second look?
What if it was a robotic error which am 100% sure it was
Because if a real human being had actually reviewed my account…
How is it possible that nobody could point to a single post that violated the rules?
And even if Facebook wanted to pun!sh me for violating a guideline…
Shouldn’t there be a clear duration?
Seven days.
Two weeks.
One month at most.
But two months?
And nothing has changed?
Very unfair.
Imagine someone who has spent years building a business around Facebook.
Years of hard work, creating valuable content.
Only for Facebook to wipe everything away in a matter of seconds.
Imagine the millions such a person could lose.
This experience should serve as a wake-up call to our African tech innovators.
It is time we started building our own world-class social media platforms.
We cannot continue building our lives entirely on foreign-owned platforms that don’t truly understand or prioritize our realities.
Because one day…
With just one click…
One automated decision…
Everything you have worked for all your life could dis@ppear in seconds.
Any experience with Facebook…share in the comment ..maybe they will hear us this time
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