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> This is how it works: someone working at facebook is taking bribes in exchange for the blue mark, a middle man will take your money (anywhere between $1000 and $15000 dollars, depending on your stupidity) and the friend at fb will submit an application for you to be verified. Hopefully it will be approved. This is interesting if true
It's a older problem than Instagram. One reason why people don't trust experts is that they see fake experts like Cokie Roberts and Jim Cramer on TV all day.
> This is how it works: someone working at facebook is taking bribes in exchange for the blue mark, a middle man will take your money (anywhere between $1000 and $15000 dollars, depending on your stupidity) and the friend at fb will submit an application for you to be verified. Hopefully it will be approved. This is interesting if true
Those seem like really low figures for bribes considering the average salary of a facebook employee.
On the other hand, this seems like a way to legitimately take your instagram career to the next level! Networking is about who you know, not about how many people you know. Knowing a Facebook verification contractor is some pretty ironclad social proof.
> This is how it works: someone working at facebook is taking bribes in exchange for the blue mark, a middle man will take your money (anywhere between $1000 and $15000 dollars, depending on your stupidity) and the friend at fb will submit an application for you to be verified. Hopefully it will be approved. This is interesting if true
Those seem like really low figures for bribes considering the average salary of a facebook employee.
> This is how it works: someone working at facebook is taking bribes in exchange for the blue mark, a middle man will take your money (anywhere between $1000 and $15000 dollars, depending on your stupidity) and the friend at fb will submit an application for you to be verified. Hopefully it will be approved. This is interesting if true
Those seem like really low figures for bribes considering the average salary of a facebook employee.
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Those seem like really low figures for bribes considering the average salary of a facebook employee.
"someone working at facebook" probably isn't an employee, most likely anything requiring case by case human discretion is a contractor position that pays shit. On the other hand, this seems like a way to legitimately take your instagram career to the next level! Networking is about who you know, not about how many people you know. Knowing a Facebook verification contractor is some pretty ironclad social proof.
That said, there's no guarantee that the contractor will be assigned your application to review. Assuming there are bribes, it likely would involve multiple people which increases it's chances of being revealed and less likely to actually be happening.
I love how articles like this make all these problems seem brand new. As if scammers never existed before the internet. The internet must be so evil.
They did exist before the internet. But could they reach the masses for so little out of pocket? Could they reach as many so easily? Edit: To a degree, yes. Infomercials were wildly successful. But were there other ways?
Why wouldn't they? Are they counting this manufactured engagement in the figures they use to sell advertisements?
At most this is a conversation about how IG is enabling bad behaviour, but it's not quite end of the world territory.