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5,000 friends are Scoble-less today

Notable blogger Robert Scoble pushed the Facebook envelope a little too hard with an automated script and ended up with a disabled account.

Who owns personal relationships in the Web 2.0 social graph? As Robert Scoble discovered in getting kicked off Facebook, he doesn't own his.

Due to the use of an automated tool to pull his information from Facebook, Scoble received a warning email from the social network. "This kind of Activity would be a violation of our Terms of Use and potentially of federal and state laws," the email read.

"I am working with a company to move my social graph to other places and that isn’t allowable under Facebook’s terms of service," Scoble said in his post.

How he did it won't be revealed just yet. In the comments section, when asked about the tool he used, Scoble said he could not talk about it as he was under a non-disclosure agreement. Scoble also denied this had anything to do with the new project he's starting on January 16th.

Rodney Rumsford at FaceReviews noted Scoble's account has been disabled, and he no longer appears in friends lists. Rumsford knows what Scoble was doing, but said he had been "sworn to secrecy by Robert" and won't discuss it now.