Friday, June 21, 2013

Facebook Cripples Shawn's Anomaly and Labels as "Spammy"


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Recently we were informed by supporters of Shawn's Anomaly that Facebook considers our website "Spammy"! You can see for your self.  Here are the steps:

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  1. In your status update type www.shawnsanomaly.org or www.shawnsanomaly.com
  2. You will receive a pop up that gives you the the message to the right.
  3. If you hit the "let us know" and explain to Facebook that this is a non-profit and that follows all Facebook guidlines similar to other non-profits such as LIVESTRONG, TeamInTraining...etc.  It states that you will receive an email with a response, but they never send an email.

We have tried innumerable times to click on the "let us know" link and let Facebook know that there has been a mistake, but we have yet to receive a response. Facebook also does not offer any type of contact information for the corporate office such as an email or phone number.  This makes this issue seem to go without any resolve. 

Facebook has chosen to cripple a small non-profit trying to spread awareness about birth defects, medical research, and helping families affected by telling supporters and potential supporters that the sites are "spammy and unsafe" We have tried to reach out to them but they have completely ignored all of our petitions and requests to do something about it.

Christian Calcatelli had something similar happened to him.  He wrote, "You know, as I said this didn't happen just last week. It's been 6 long months. Soon I'm getting ready to do an international event and Facebook sharing is essential to the core."

Please help us by sharing the link www.shawnsanomalyNOTSPAM.com with all your friends and your local news channels and clicking on the "let us know" and telling Facebook that this is an error.  Hopefully together as a community we can get this fixed.


Thank You,

Matthew Murphy
Founder/Chairman

UPDATE: 9/21/2013

We have tried to reach Facebook through countless requests in the past 3 months to get this error resolved, but they are still ignoring our request.  We really need your help.  PLEASE share www.shawnsanomalyNOTSPAM.com with all your friends.  We need the community to come together to fix this.



2 comments:

  1. I will be sure to keep an eye out for this FB error. And I will definitely let them know via the pop up box that labeling your site as spam is a mistake.

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  2. Cool article it's really. Friend on mine has long been awaiting just for this content. facebook

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