Facebook Problems

Once upon a time way back in early 2004 when Facebook had just come in to existence, I signed up for an account at the urging of my friends. I registered under bhinc@ou.edu. Since I had just graduated in December 2003, at the time I was really more focused on getting my life in order back home in Chicago than spending countless hours on Facebook.

Fast-foward 2 1/2 years and I am now ready to throw myself into Facebook after wading through the muck that is Myspace. Facebook is defiintely superior and the "next big thing" as they say. Unfortunately, when I'm ready to log back in to Facebook for the first time in a long time, I don't remember my password. And, to make matters worse, I no longer have access to the bhinc@ou.edu e-mail address I used when I originally signed up. I do have access to bhinc@alumni.ou.edu but that doesn't help me too much. Rather than doing the obvious and trying to get access to the original account by e-mailing technical support, I went ahead and created a new account under ben.hinc@gmail.com (my current e-mail of choice - everything else forwards there anyway). I used my alumni e-mail to join the OU network. All seemed well...until I decided to finally contact Facebook support about my original account.

In my e-mail to the support team I detailed my situation and offered two preferred outcomes: either reset my password so I can have access to the original account or merge the two so that all of my friends both old and new would be retained. Well...it seems having two accounts on Facebook is a violation of their Terms of Service so, while I got my wish of having my original account's password reset, I got the added bonus of having my new account deleted. Yes, deleted. I would've preferred a little warning so that maybe I could rescue a few notes or whatnot, but alas, it is gone. Just gone.

I have my old profile back now, so I guess I should be happy. Now I have to rebuild the damn thing....