Title: I had decided to set up a test account for an app I'm developing, so I googled "Facebook test account" and found this blog entry at position #1:<p>http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/35/<p>I skimmed it for a link and clicked. The page loaded, I clicked the big button in the middle that said something like "Make [Your Name] a Test Account"...<p>...and my Facebook account was made unable to interact with friends and apps.<p>My real Facebook account. The one I use (well, formerly used) to admin multiple apps. The one I formerly used to keep in touch with hundreds of friends.<p>Instead of making a test account <i>for</i> me, it had made a test account <i>out of me.</i><p>I contacted Facebook support, but other developers on the forum have done so with no luck. This is sickening.
<i>Who in their right mind creates a button labeled "create test account" that irreversibly destroys the account of the person using the system?</i><p>And who, having committed such an atrocity of design, doesn't even help the people who accidentally click it? It is incomprehensible.<p>[Edit: It gets WORSE, if that is possible. The method that blog post talks about is outdated. It shouldn't be used any  more. There is a much cleaner way to manage test users through official apis. They could at least edit that post to point to the up-to-date information. ]
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