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When the crying person gets this all resolved, perhaps the crying person will want to consider alternatives to Facebook, such as diaspora*.
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Facebook's mistreatment of LGBT folks is a real, documented thing that has existed for many years, and one of their pain points for that group is forcing a person to provide government ID and a "real name", which can then be used to ban the account for "misrepresenting" their sexual orientation as well as expose them to harassment from hate groups. The author is an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights, so I can see whe…
See also Facebook's weird standards around photos of women breast feeding their babies (strictly banned for years) and terrorists beheading captured people (fine by Facebook).
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Seems completely absurd to me. You are supposed to know what your friends look like (aren't they called friends?)
There's friends , and there's "Facebook friends". In reality people have thousands of different relations between people, and nuances to those relationships. Facebook has two-you're either "Friends", or "not Friends". Needless to say, this is a tremendously leaky abstraction. Thus, don't assume that because two people are Facebook friends, that their relationship in any way resemble friendship.
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There's friends , and there's "Facebook friends". In reality people have thousands of different relations between people, and nuances to those relationships. Facebook has two-you're either "Friends", or "not Friends". Needless to say, this is a tremendously leaky abstraction. Thus, don't assume that because two people are Facebook friends, that their relationship in any way resemble friendship.
you're playing on words. If you add someone on facebook, it's because you know them.
The words we use to describe our relationships are important, and the fact that Facebook flattens them all down to two is a significant issue. Especially when we have people who don't understand that, and seem confused why people are "Facebook friends", but not actually friends.
> it's because you know them
Sure, but that doesn't mean I know what they look like.
friends and i have successfully evaded facebook's idiotic (read: trans-exclusionary) "real" name policy by photoshopping the text of legal documents on a few occasions. a laborious option! but worth considering.
Mind: that likely puts you solidly into fraud category.
When the crying person gets this all resolved, perhaps the crying person will want to consider alternatives to Facebook, such as diaspora*.
Diaspora was a valient effort, but sadly, appears quite doomed (I was an early fan and user).
When the crying person gets this all resolved, perhaps the crying person will want to consider alternatives to Facebook, such as diaspora*.
"The alternative" is almost certain not to be an alternative Web-based service, but a set of protocols allowing for interactions between independent and independently hosted systems. Diaspora was a valient effort, but sadly, appears quite doomed (I was an early fan and user).
There really is nothing _a priori_ wrong with the centralized system, PROVIDED said system/operator makes strong Privacy / Data Sovereignity guarantees from the word go.
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"The alternative" is almost certain not to be an alternative Web-based service, but a set of protocols allowing for interactions between independent and independently hosted systems. Diaspora was a valient effort, but sadly, appears quite doomed (I was an early fan and user).
From everything I've seen/read during the security research phase for my project, trusting in the computational/security integrity of endless P2P nodes is not a road I want to go down. There really is nothing _a priori_ wrong with the centralized system, PROVIDED said system/operator makes strong Privacy / Data Sovereignity guarantees from the word go.
There's also the issue that client nodes, under any model, also require security updates and practices. The universal P2P model really isn't far from that, and certain auto-updating models seem arguably preferable to present offerings.
> facebook’s account security is apparently based on its users knowing what every one of of its friends looks like (do you?) This isn't central to the post or anything, but uh, is this really that uncommon...?
People accept friends requests on Facebook and social media sites from people they don't know all the time. Some seem to treat it like a game - how many friends they can collect. Others because of peer pressure or not wanting to miss out on work related opportunities and a whole host of other reasons. Social media relationships are not equivalent as your offline friends, relatives and acquaintances.
I can honestly say I wasn't aware of that mode of usage. It seems alittle counterproductive, though I suppose you can always depend on Facebooks feed ranking to not show you posts from all the randos.