Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process
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Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process
#2It will be a cold day in hell before I send a copy of my ID to facebook. WTF are people thinking?!
Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process
#3only women were affected. Facebook's got several anti-woman policies (for example banning pictures of breast-feeding, and prohibiting domestic violence survivors from using pseudonyms) but in this case they're blaming a bug. it would be it would be interesting to hear more about what the actual issue is.
Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process
#4How does Facebook validate government IDs without actually having them? Anyone with Photoshop can be anyone they want.
Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process
#5only women were affected. Facebook's got several anti-woman policies (for example banning pictures of breast-feeding, and prohibiting domestic violence survivors from using pseudonyms) but in this case they're blaming a bug. it would be it would be interesting to hear more about what the actual issue is.
At least that's who vocalized having been affected. For all we know, the disabled majority could have been Men, but didn't care enough to complain about it on Twitter.
Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process
#6only women were affected. Facebook's got several anti-woman policies (for example banning pictures of breast-feeding, and prohibiting domestic violence survivors from using pseudonyms) but in this case they're blaming a bug. it would be it would be interesting to hear more about what the actual issue is.
At least that's who vocalized having been affected. For all we know, the disabled majority could have been Men, but didn't care enough to complain about it on Twitter.
But they care enough to complain on the behalf of their female friends and relatives? Possible but unlikely, I think.
Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process
#7It will be a cold day in hell before I send a copy of my ID to facebook. WTF are people thinking?!
There are worse threats.
It took me less than 15 minutes to find a decent photo of you, what I think is your work address (zip 60603), possibly your home address (number is 519) and phone number (726 in the middle). I didn't come up with your date of birth but I can make a pretty good guess about your wife's (digits add up to 2011) and the date of your wedding (adds up to 2022).
I'm sorry if that completely creeps you out. I tried not to give anything personal away here and that's all readily available online.
That's not from a scanned copy of an ID that Facebook would hopefully attempt to protect.
Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process
#8FTA "It's hard not to wonder if the issue could have anything to do with yesterday's announcement of a new messaging system on the site that would work using your Facebook username for an @facebook.com email address"
I don't like when blogs do that: the link between female accounts-only disabled and Facebook's new messaging system is pretty weak. The only reason they make the link is to have people read that other story about Facebook. TechCrunch does that all the time and I find that slightly annoying. It feels like the kid who brings up unrelated stories just to show he knows stuff.
Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process
#9And this is one of the reasons that I don't like the idea of facebook being my universal log on for lots of different sites. It takes things from mild irritation at having to find another way to waste time, to a potentially major problem when I can't access services that I use every day.
Re: Facebook bug disables women's accounts, asks for government ID, fix in process
#10FTA "It's hard not to wonder if the issue could have anything to do with yesterday's announcement of a new messaging system on the site that would work using your Facebook username for an @facebook.com email address" I don't like when blogs do that: the link between female accounts-only disabled and Facebook's new messaging system is pretty weak. The only reason they make the link is to have people read that other st…
Actually, that's not at ALL why I wrote that. I wrote that because I found it hard to not wonder if the two things were connected. Suddenly, user names are becoming @facebook.com email addresses.
I also wrote this line before Facebook ever responded to our questions (which they did just a moment before posting) and didn't remove it. Before the explanation, Boy Genius Report was speculating that it was a hack because of the request for a government ID. A quick Google search showed that a government ID request seemed to be a standard thing when Facebook wants to reactivate certain accounts, so I figured that wasn't the case and postulated that perhaps it had to do with Facebooks latest change...its messaging system.
The only reason I ever put links into a story is so that if you don't know about that, and it's readily accessible, you don't need to search for it. :)