I’m doing this just because no one really believes the stuff we get hit with here at TechCrunch every day. None of this ever gets posted. But I’m on a roll today, so why not.
And no matter how crazy the message, we do try to respond as helpfully as possible. We’re here all week, so feel free to email with any further relationship/legal advice requests. In fact, I’m thinking of starting a new once-a-day crazy email from the inbox series of posts.
We’ll update with any further response from Sarah.
From: Michael Arrington
Date: November 9, 2009 1:54:16 PM PST
To: Sarah
Subject: Re: sueing facebook??????Maybe it’s time for a new boyfriend.
On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Sarah wrote:
Hi my name is Sarah and I have a quick question. My boyfriend got kicked off of face book for sending too many messages is there any way to get him back on if not then he is kicked off for at least a month. please contact me as [email removed]. please it is very important
Nice, are you going to help her?
i believe i did!
And I believe he must be the boyfriend…
I was unaware that you picked up a 2nd job as head of Tech Support @ Facebook.
In all seriousness, if a “WTF Email of the Day” is instituted, Paul Carr must be responsible for the comments.
It’s very important Michael!
Wow… Sue happy?
I believe her name was Sarah and from the looks of her letter she seemed unhappy.
No, it was “Sue happy” as in “Trigger happy”. So not Sue as in the name, but Sue as in the legal action.
hey Mike … looking at your mood today, every company can get a free post uh?
Time to start the Ask Mike! column. Where can we send our questions?
Facebook gets billions of messages sent a day, chances are he just blocked her. Therefore I think suing Facebook is the solution.
Posting that message is proof that the CPM you charge advertisers is on the high end.
Help me Obi Won (Michael Arrington) You’re my only hope!
Just to understand what a sad sad person this dude is… How man messages does one have to send to get the boot from facebook?
@arrington Love the ranting!
Mike, I asked you to stop making fun of my girlfriend.
+1 Ha
Shame you got banned on Facebook.
I liked Orkut better anyway.
and this is why i am hooked onto TC! The TCarcasm sometimes is evolutionary.
+1
I’ve read this blog several times a week for years. And until I read this comment, I thought you were a woman, Robin… don’t know why. I guess I know more female Robin’s than I do male ones…
Yeah, people from the U.S. tend to associate the name Robin with the female gender. In Europe, much much less.
Here in New Zealand, “Robyn” is the female version of the name and “Robin” is the male. It works nicely
In Europe Robin makes us think about three people : Robin from HIMYM, Robin Hood, or Batman’s sidekick… your choice !
If a person has a girlfriend, it still doesn’t mean that person is a guy…
yeah, but it clearly says ‘my boyfriend…’!
In all seriousness, though, Facebook’s customer service is horrible!!! I have had a number of questions (not found on the help page) and have emailed and called them repeatedly to no avail. You should do a story on that!!!
And Sarah should DEFINITELY get a new boyfriend…=)
+1 Hacked accounts in particular you would think warrant a reply, apparently not.
U get what u pay for
+1
I really like the once-a-day crazy email post idea. Keep them coming.
crazy email bins are the best. Definitely close your eyes and pull one out of the hat each day.
Once a month should be good..
Micheal;
Its always entertaining to read of the “off the wall” interactions a high-profile organization like TC would engender.
But on the flip side, responding to most, if not all of it, mot only seems like a huge waste of time (your entertainment from it of course is not considered “wasted” if indeed you gain some entertainment from the piffle), but also encourages others to who might NOT have been foolish enough to send you a “where are my socks?” question to now do so, seeing that there is a POSSIBILITY they will get a response.
Just a thought…
-avi
$500 says you have an MBA.
… from a Top 10 school.
I’ll even double up and say he received some sort of Economics undergraduate degree. He’s comparing the Opportunity Costs on an internet comment section lmao
He used the word ‘piffle’ too , so he probably reads the Economist
Heck, I have a top MBA and (occasionally) read the economist and I had to look up “piffle.” What a great word. My goal is to use it twice in conversation tonight.
Ha ha ha ha… we should start a pool.
+10
Hey Mike, I’m thinking of getting a snack, but can’t decide on some sun chips or beef jerky. Any help?
get the jerky dude
What the hell, dude? Are you insane?
Jerky.
no no don’t listen to them (even though you’ve probably bought and eaten the snack) get the sun chips. SUN CHIPS. mhm mhm mhm goodness.
Speaking for myself, I’d love me some sun-baked cow chips.
Advice for Sarah:
Girl friend, your bf fed you this “my facebook account is suspended” bs, and you bought it? Wake the heck up! He done took his act to Bebo with another chick.
Oh wow…I thought all of your material was humor.
Should I be taking you more serious?
Ah.. this is a nice dose of comic relief. I support the “crazy email of the week” idea. It’ll be my new comic section.
lol… that’s awesome. People are friggin’ weird.
Haha, some people just don’t know how the internet works.
Michael, Good to see you have a sense of humor. If you ever get tired of being a tech guru you have potential as a relationship counselor, the Dear Abby of the 21st century!
i second the wtf email of the week interjecters.
that’s so nice of you mike to help out so many people today. you put in a full days work.
Sure that wasn’t Sarah Lacy?
Apparently she is in India now riding Camels.
Camels in India? $500 says you’re an American.
Check out the Pushkar Camel Fair:
http://www.push...camel-fair.com/
Good one
The picture for this post makes me want to punch someone in the face.
good one..
Mike, even thou u don’t write much.. i just come here to get your posts once in a while…
This post is awesome.. that is why u are mike..
tks,.nag
Mike, you have Droid and you are great with relationship advices? Come work for us and get paid for what you know. Don’t offer your advices for free on TC.
Pull your Droid and search for Oracles app in App Market (yes, there is Android app for that). See if you like the company and we’ll make you a relationship expert (if you have some other advice related skills we would be glad to know, too). CDestiny
I done see what the bit deal is .
Someone called Sarah wrote on my forehead when I attended the Carnage student event. Maybe she has already started making movements..
Congrats on becoming the Dr. Phil of social media.
Sounds like the calls that come into tech support here…
Caller: “Can you reset my email password?”
Me: “Sure, whats the email address?”
Caller: “caller@yahoo.com”
Me: “Uhh…”
+1 vote for the weekly crazy email column!
I bet she’s sorry she didn’t proof read her email.
I bet she’s not
It’s very important. Take time out of your day to help some random person you don’t know.
Please don’t add a weekly crazy email post. The front page of TC has already become too cluttered with irrelevant crap. If you really want to do it, make it a separate portion of the site that people can go look at it they want, but please leave the home page free of worthless trash.
+1
Too many posts on TC these days. Can’t keep up any more.
Dear TC,
My girlfriend Sarah is such a psycho. She keeps spamming people from my Facebook account with Viagra ads. I think she is trying to tell me something but now I can’t get back on to Facebook to find out. I was going to bang her tonight, but now I’m feeling so inadequate, I don’t know what to do! Can you help? Please?
Sarah’s Boyfriend
Where is the pity here.. she is talking about a serious issue. How else will she keep in contact with her boyfriend? To think they might have to talk on the phone and see eachother.. these things are very dramatic to the twilight loving demographic of woman..
You can almost see her sitting there looking at a phone saying what do I do with this…
3. Attack Japan
Shameless ploy for traffic! I expected something much jucier…
LOL, I think anyone that was ever responsible for any kind of tech support (myself included) has experienced piles of similar (and even more WTFey) requests. However, people never cease to amaze me…
Seriously this is classic.. i’m literally laughing my arse off..
The e-mail isn’t funny, nor is the response.
I fully support a WTF post per week. As for Sarah, not only should she get a new boyfriend but she’s clearly one of those women whose a “facilitator”. She organises her boyfriend’s life, solves his problems and turns into Mom. She’ll be happy to do this until she’s 40 and wakes up one day to finally realize her husband/partner is totally lazy and only married her because she made it easy for him. Sarah needs to reform NOW and be tough on the guys in her life.
Or she’s suffering the worst case of denial ever. Whoever got kicked off FB?
Anyway Sarah, I’m sure there’s a 12 step program somewhere for you.
IMHO
300 Millions Facebook Users, 30% in US, half women, if Facebook will banish 0.01% boyfriends every month and if Michael charge 50$ to get them back , he will get
300Mx30%/2*0.01*50$ = 225k$ .
I think we have a nice business model for Michael.
Now we need to know how many boyfriend facebook will banish every month and how much Facebook will charge Michael to get them back
Pretty hilarious stuff. Hope you start the daily section for such funny stuff.
For some people, getting banned from Facebook is like having the EU pull their Internet connection for life because they’ve been caught feeding a nasty The Ropers addiction.
It’s only going to get worse people.
Really, how many, HOW MANY messages do you HAVE TO send to get banned from Facebook.
I cannot believe that being a real message. She should defo get a new boyfriendin that case; and if this was a gimmick to get more page impressions, then well done techcrunch.