from www.edmontonsun.com – Is Anissa Holmes too hot for Facebook?

Or is Facebook just too cold to her?

The Playboy model and former SUNshine Girl wants to know why she was suddenly booted off Facebook and why the popular social networking site is keeping her pictures and refusing to grant her access to them.

“If you’re going to kibosh me, give me back the stuff that belongs to me,” Holmes, 28, said yesterday.

But Facebook — which yesterday didn’t respond to requests for comment — said Holmes violated its terms and conditions and that she was turfed because “nudity and sexually explicit content is not allowed” on the site.

A Facebook rep named Marissa wrote to Holmes in an e-mail on Aug. 21, the day after her personal profile and fan page were deactivated.

“Please note that nudity and other sexually explicit content is not allowed on the site,” wrote Marissa, who didn’t provide her last name in the e-mails. Holmes had 3,000 friends on her personal profile page and 8,400 people had signed up to her fan page. She said the loss of contacts has greatly damaged her modelling and acting career.

She also wants Facebook to return to her the 300 pictures of family, friends and modelling work she had posted.

Facebook, however, is refusing to budge.

“Additionally, we do not allow users to send messages that are sexually suggestive, or that other users may find harassing in nature. We will not be able to reactivate your account for any reason. This decision is final.”

The Toronto-based model, who grew up in Markham and Newmarket, said there were never any nude pics on her personal profile or fan page, although there were some that featured her in bikinis or lingerie, which is common on the site.

She maintains she never harassed anybody or wrote sexually suggestive e-mails — though she received her fair share from men.

Holmes also said she and many other models, Playboy or otherwise, use Facebook as a self-promotion tool. One of Facebook’s terms is that the site must not be used for commercial purposes.

But Holmes said she did nothing different from what countless bands, companies, restaurants, and bars do every day on Facebook.

She has since created a new personal page under a new e-mail account — although she said she’ll likely never regain the nearly 12,000 contacts.

She contends that if Facebook had problems with the pictures she had posted, site administrators could have at least warned her or asked her to remove them.

“I’ve seen pornographic still images used as profile pictures,” Holmes said.

“Had it been a picture that they didn’t like, or that somebody had reported, at least tell me because I would remove that picture instantly, no questions asked,” she said.

But instead, in an another e-mail, Facebook told Holmes she would not be granted access to any of the pictures she posted and that Facebook wouldn’t be returning them to her.

“Unfortunately, for safety and security reasons, we cannot delete from our servers information associated with disabled accounts,” Marissa wrote.

“We also cannot grant you access to a disabled account to retrieve content from it, nor can we provide you with any content that was associated with this account.”