Sunday, April 4, 2010

Are Your Facebook Friends Really Who They Say They Are?




In an effort to save their privacy, many Facebook users are starting a trend of using fake names and identity's to log on to the social networking website. However, Facebook is very unhappy with this. They are fully aware that people are sneaking on with fake accounts due to many job applicants being rejected by employers, because of their profile content. Facebook deems the trend as inappropriate since the website's main purpose to network 'real people' with 'real connections'. Therefore, they are not being hesitant towards deleting pages that seem less than real. Imagine this problem became out of hand to the point where networking sites were losing, because uninterested advertisers found it useless to buy private information that may be fake and inaccurate? The future of social networking sites may require a genuine fingerprint to sign-up.

Do you think it is fair that Facebook site maintainers think they can determine whether or not a person's identity is real, fake, or a real identity with a nickname?

How do you believe Facebook could eventually suffer from this fake identity trend?

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