Facebook disables user's account for sharing a cat photo
The internet is full of cute cats, but some can have devastating effects. SEE ALSO: Norway newspaper editor blasts Zuckerberg for censoring iconic Vietnam War photograph On Friday evening, Chennai-based technology blogger Varun Krishnan was locked out of his Facebook account after he shared a photo of an innocent looking cat with a friend. "It might sound stupid but this just happened to me," Krishnan told Mashable India . "I was chatting with friends, got one cat image on WhatsApp, it was so cute that I sent it to a friend." But when Facebook Messenger app immediately asked Krishnan to re-enter his credentials, he knew something was amiss. "Before I realized, my devices were getting logged off. Even on PC, Messenger notified me that my Facebook account has been disabled,” he added. “My photos, my Facebook Ads account (Varun runs FoneArena, a tech blog), they wiped my presence off Facebook in a matter of seconds for a cat photo."