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guelo on April 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Name: Illegitimate

A few years ago Facebook banned a fake account that I created for deploying a Facebook app for the company that I worked at. With the account banned we couldn't get access to the app to support the tens of thousands of users it had. Luckily Facebook did end up reinstating the account after we appealed for a couple weeks, though they did force me to change it to my real name.

rmc on April 28, 2012 [–]

And this is why your fake account should be used only for testing. You don't want to block things for your company.

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