Facebook trouble

[blue_bird]

I've never used social media before, and I was apprehensive about using facebook. i decided to make an account since animal adoption sites post a lot of photos of adoptable pets on facebook. Since i'm looking to get a new pet, i thought i'd give facebook a try.

anyway, i make an account yesterday and today security measures is requiring me to add an actual photo of myself which i don't intend to do on facebook. it says my account has shown strange activity (too many likes, and friends made too quickly). this can't have been by me since i just made the account and logged out.

Any advice on what do? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[tree]

This sounded scammy to me, but apparently Facebook does ask for a photo
if there is a question regarding the authenticity of the account.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/29/16716278/facebook-tests-selfies-login-verification-face

As far as Facebook being a place where animal adoption sites post lots of photos,
I've had a Facebook account for over 5 years and haven't noticed that being a
feature. Depends on what you search for/designate as a 'like', I guess.

 

[Mia]

No way I would actually do that. Guess if you really want a FB account, then you have to abide by their requests. I closed my account years ago.

Facebook’s New Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face'

 

[Pats]

I see a lot of rescue animals on my facebook, but I am friends with several shelters and most my friends are animal lovers and posts a lot of animal stuff.
Sounds like someone may have hacked into your facebook - change the password and go into your privacy settings and fix it the way you want. Or just delete your account and when you get on the internet, just go to the animal shelter sites which will usually list the current dogs and cats they have available for adoption.

Oh - I haven't been asked for a photo - but then I already have photos on there.

 

[Butterfly88]

I don't use a photo of myself and never had a problem. As far as finding a pet to adopt, try:
Celebrating Over 20 Years of Pet Adoption | Petfinder

 

[blue_bird]

The problem is Pats that I don't have access to my account. the security measures are rather ironically denying me, the actual user, access to my account. I guess I should just message them and tell them to delete it. Fortunately i didn't post anything or reveal anything about myself. I just loaded a profile pic (of space) and a quote as my background.

Mia, that link you gave was just scary. Facebook requires you to post nude photos for authenticity. that's just ridiculous. at first I thought it was a joke.

 

[blue_bird]

Celebrating Over 20 Years of Pet Adoption | Petfinder

thanks b88, but it doesn't seem to work for people outside of the US

 

[Mia]

Mia, that link you gave was just scary. Facebook requires you to post nude photos for authenticity. that's just ridiculous. at first I thought it was a joke.

I was surprised by that too. It seems to be related to people who become victims of revenge porn.

"This test is intended to help those victims who are being blackmailed by an abusive partner or criminal and who want to take action." https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/9/16630900/facebook-revenge-porn-defense-details

 

[GadAbout]

I don't think they used to require a photo for new accounts, but Facebook came under a lot of criticism for phony accounts, such as those that Russia used to "sow discord" with American politics - it worked, too! Also as someone mentioned, revenge porn. Anyway, I don't think you need to be too scared of loading a photo, the thing about Facebook is it's supposed to be real people using their real name, as opposed to, say, this forum, where most people use a pseudonym.

What you DO need to be aware of is that since it's your true identity on Facebook, you need to be more careful you don't post much personal stuff, including opinions. You can also set your privacy options so very little is seen by others.

Or you can just skip the whole thing. Never let anyone shame you for not being on social media.

 

[blue_bird]

Just posting to let everyone know, that my account has been disabled.

I was able to download the data provided by facebook of my account. It seems as if my account was untouched after I logged out. Why they felt the need to add all the security measures to a virtually untouched account is beyond me.

 

[Judge]

Just posting to let everyone know, that my account has been disabled.

I was able to download the data provided by facebook of my account. It seems as if my account was untouched after I logged out. Why they felt the need to add all the security measures to a virtually untouched account is beyond me.

Because it's really all about a perception of their liability. Not yours.

Just say "no" to Facebook.

 

[tlc]

Because it's really all about a perception of their liability. Not yours.

Just say "no" to Facebook.

My first thought to this thread was "Facebook IS trouble". There are a few things I miss out on, like contacting old musicians and things, but that's about it. I don't see much good in it. My dad is on it, he notifies me if there's anything going on that I might want to know about, but it's nothing I couldn't live without. He says you have to wade through a lot of meaningless junk to find a few worthwhile things. These days it seems everybody looks to find your reputation on Facebook before considering you for anything. I don't need people associating me with the trash that my kid's mom and other exs post about me.

 

[Judge]

These days it seems everybody looks to find your reputation on Facebook before considering you for anything.

I find that to be tragic if that's truly the case. Facebook seems to rely on relatively meaningless social metrics such as "likes" to assess one's personal reputation based on what amounts to a false premise of popularity achieved through manipulation and or the graces of largely total strangers.

Not that I endorse "mylife.com", however they rely primarily on a major metric that truly counts for most adults in society. Your FICO score. Better known as one's aggregate credit rating determined by TransUnion, Equifax and Experian.

They also consider others such as a criminal/civil offenses record if one has one, as well as who you associate with. And in assessing one's net worth it appears to be little more than guessing in many cases. Not cool. But the bulk of their "score" still appears to be primarily based on your FICO score.

Don't get me wrong. IMO these are cold and cruel considerations as well. However they do reflect some very real metrics that the real world relies on. Not so many "likes" by those who don't even actually know you. Though unlike Facebook, you don't join to have such records online. And they don't ask you for them.

As I recall, the original Facebook was little more than online device to unfairly judge college coeds on their look and sex appeal to male college students. IMO it appears not to have evolved all that much.

 

[tlc]

As I recall, the original Facebook was little more than online device to unfairly judge college coeds on their look and sex appeal to male college students. IMO it appears not to have evolved all that much.

I thought the original Facebook was to make a web of connections, to validate the "6 degrees of separation". But you're probably right.

 

[Judge]

I thought the original Facebook was to make a web of connections, to validate the "6 degrees of separation". But you're probably right.

I think that's part of the inherent flaw of Facebook since its inception. That no matter how lofty it was intended, it all boils down to how their users actually use or abuse the service. And how fast or effectively Facebook is able to police their own creation.

In 6 Months, Facebook Removes Over 3 Million Fake Accounts

Much like hacking, odds are that those creating fake accounts will continue to do so, faster than Facebook can delete them. Just another indicator that the service is so corrupted that it isn't worth bothering with, IMO. What remains so tragic is that much of business and society has adopted Facebook as some kind of meaningful benchmark of one's personal reputation. The very notion remains utterly preposterous under the circumstances with so much fraud happening, apart from the casual nature of "likes" and such.

No doubt both Russia's SVR and China's MSS and all their "state actors" are quoting Scotty from Star Trek: "The more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."

Ham and eggs, peas and carrots, salt and pepper....and yeah- "Facebook trouble".

 

[blue_bird]

To be honest, I think a part of me is glad I was only a member for one night.

 

[Loren]

Wishing you success on your quest for a new pet !

 

[oregano]

The REALLY scary thing is that many employers simply will not hire anybody who doesn't have active accounts on all the big social media sites, not just Facebook but LinkedIn and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat and on and on. You have to have squeaky clean, wonderful social media accounts before any employer will take a look at you. That's why so many people outright lie, such as the wife killers who have social media posts saying how much they love their families. Employers also give people "personality tests" that are very nebulous but have to be answered "correctly" to be considered for hiring.

America is becoming a place where the only thing that matters is being the right style of social butterfly. Doesn't matter whether you can fulfill the "job requirements". The only thing that matters in life is the social pecking order. "Work" days are spent playing office politics. People have to "fit in to the corporate culture" in specific ways to be hired. And then Americans can't figure out why China and India are kicking our butts.

Kids there learn actual skills in their educations, kids here learn social climbing. In my closet I have a standard Chinese electronics kit used in Chinese secondary schools. People here who were kids in the 60s may remember the "Graymark" and other electronics kits common in American high schools then, this is similar, a basic 7 transistor medium wave ("AM") radio meant as a teaching tool.

American schools cut all vocational education out a long time ago. Kids sit in classrooms and learn how to get good scores on standardized tests to make bureaucrats happy, and of course how to be a social butterfly, and then go to university to rack up $200k in debt to refine those skills, then to social climb for the rest of their lives to pay the debt.

Today's kids would probably think a soldering iron was some kind of funky new sex toy. Loners are hated to the point where people want to FORCE us to socialize. Autism is so feared that many people want to "cure" us or "save" the social butterfly within that has been "kidnapped". It's getting extremely scary in this country.

 

[tlc]

^ Totally agree. And I have spent some time job hunting in recent years, only to find the same thing. It was more about participating in company culture both on AND off the clock, than actually being skilled to do the job. Even the last place I worked fired me for that reason, that I didn't spend enough time socializing and fitting in with the clique (it was a machine shop, and they said I did the work well). Many manufacturing companies around here have closed up, and the thought of my company closing and having to find another job in today's world scares me to death.