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Facebook wary of Toronto model
By BRETT CLARKSON, QMI Agency


Anissa has had an ongoing discussion with Facebook as to what's acceptable. (QMI/Stan Behal)


TORONTO -- There's a reason it's called Facebook and not Side Butt Cheekbook.

Anissa Holmes found out first-hand.

The Playboy model made a lot of noise when she was kicked off the 300-million-member social networking site in August for apparently violating its terms, barring nudity and sexually suggestive content.

This October she was briefly booted for a second time for posting a shot that exposed the side of her rear.

"They're watching me like a hawk," Holmes said yesterday. "I put something up, it was a swimsuit shot, a published shot, and it had barely a side butt cheek and 13 minutes later I got a warning."

And she was given a list of Facebook no-nos that shed some light on what bits -- or even toys -- aren't allowed.

Holmes, 28, was originally turfed from Facebook in August because "nudity and other sexually explicit content is not allowed," a Facebook rep named Marissa informed the Toronto model in an e-mail.

After ending up on the front page of the Toronto Sun -- under the headline "Too Hot For Facebook" -- Holmes was reinstated.

But in October, she again had the Facebook thrown at her, this time for posting the cheeky picture of her backside while posing in a bikini.

After contacting Facebook, she was reinstated for a second time but told by another Facebook rep named Peter that it was her last chance.

Holmes was still wondering what it was exactly that she had done wrong.

"I said, 'Look Peter, let's stop playing around.' He said this is the last time I'm reinstating you. I said, 'Fine, tell me what's so bad about my profile?' "

So Peter sent her a reply that included a list of Facebook's fireable offences.

"One of the things listed was butt cheek showing," Holmes said. "Once I saw that, that's when it clued into me. So I cropped it, took the butt cheek out and I haven't heard anything since."

As for now, Holmes is back on Facebook, with 3,124 friends on her personal profile and 9.434 fans on her fan page.

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NO-NOS FOR POSTED PHOTOS

Types of pictures banned by popular social networking site Facebook:

- Images of sex toys

- Images in which any part of a female nipple is visible

- Images in which someone's backside is visible

- Images in which the side of a nude backside or breast is visible

- Pixelated or black-barred images of otherwise violating nudity



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