[Nextgrid]

You can open a support ticket and they'll restore it and include a BS apology about how your account was supposedly a false-positive of their anti-abuse system (where in reality it's just a way to harvest phone numbers out of easily coercible victims).

However, the main question is: why would you ever give your time to such a toxic platform especially when it's explicitly working against you like in this case? Just move on and give them the finger.

[saagarjha]

> why would you ever give your time to such a toxic platform

Because a bunch of people you know are on the toxic platform.

[nudq]

A good idea if you want your personal relationships poisoned.

[workthrowaway]

> A good idea if you want your personal relationships poisoned.

not how it works for me! i have friends on fb that i haven't talked to or seen since high school. i don't use fb proper but it's good to know that it remembers everyone so i don't have to. i guess it goes the other around as well.

[bilekas]

> it's good to know that it remembers everyone so i don't have to

There is something wrong with this for me.. If you don't remember people, are they really worth kepeing around ?

It is a great way to reach someone you want to get in touch with after a really long time, but that scenario is far more rare than people claim when they speak of the 'magic of facebook'.

[hombre_fatal]

> If you don't remember people, are they really worth kepeing around

How in the world are you ever going to know if you never contact them again?

[bilekas]

:) I guess I just keep a select group of friends that I want to be with. What I don't know wont kill me and all that, but fair enough. Each to their own !

[huyqut]

It's not that rare. I met some friends in middle school about 10 years ago. When I move to the US, FB is the place to connect them again because we keep FB connections. A lit of people around is also in the same situation. Like the above comment, you never know.

[saiya-jin]

Doesn't make it a less toxic place in any meaning. If somebody is such a diva they have an active presence on Twitter, there are almost always other means to connect.

[collyw]

When the Guardian closes its own comments section (usually when they are heavily pushing opinion without evidence) you can usually comment on Twitter.

[doublerabbit]

> why would you ever give your time to such a toxic platform

Did you ask this back in 2008?

As someone who was ridiculed, outcasted and made fun at uni for not using social media because I didn’t want to submit my data online, it’s finally nice to find people are actually starting to realise this; just twelve years too late.

[Nextgrid]

I agree, it’s a choice where you feel the consequences pretty much every day when it comes to Facebook or Instagram.

But Twitter? Pretty much nobody uses it for day-to-day communication, so you can opt-out with no consequences.