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Saint posted:

I don't use my real name on Face Book for privacy reasons

A group I joined reported my account as possibly being fake

Now Facebook want evidence this is my real name I use every day

 

What can I do short of creating a new account?

I don't want to use my real name

It’s a pain Renton....I had someone accuse me of being fake cos I don’t use a proper pic as my avi ...and my account is locked down . Can you perhaps *adjust* your real name slightly ...or even use your Surname and Renton 

Baz
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Yogi19 posted:
Saint posted:
Yogi19 posted:

I don’t do FB so I have no idea about any of this. HTH 

Well you should ... it has many groups you can join ... ones of common interests

Which seemed to be my undoing, however

I don’t trust their security/privacy. 

You can make it as secure as you want `Yogi .....mine is locked down tight No one can contact me ...look for me ...or post on my wall ...unless I give them permission 

Baz
Baz posted:
Yogi19 posted:
Saint posted:
Yogi19 posted:

I don’t do FB so I have no idea about any of this. HTH 

Well you should ... it has many groups you can join ... ones of common interests

Which seemed to be my undoing, however

I don’t trust their security/privacy. 

You can make it as secure as you want `Yogi .....mine is locked down tight No one can contact me ...look for me ...or post on my wall ...unless I give them permission 

Hubby’s was hacked (he doesn’t do FB now) and several others - it’s the security of the site that is pants

Yogi19

This is why I never used a real name

No matter how secure - it's never fully secure

AND ... just as an example ...

I've told things to friends I never expected to be shared with mutual friends.

It's not a lack of trust it's just other friends have their own friends I don't like/trust. Before I've known what's happened everyone knows stuff I told to one person.

ALSO ... the stuff I've been able to discover about people is surprising

Saint
Saint posted:

This is why I never used a real name

No matter how secure - it's never fully secure

AND ... just as an example ...

I've told things to friends I never expected to be shared with mutual friends.

It's not a lack of trust it's just other friends have their own friends I don't like/trust. Before I've known what's happened everyone knows stuff I told to one person.

ALSO ... the stuff I've been able to discover about people is surprising

 

Yogi19

Saint - It's always been one of the (few) rules of F*c*book accounts that you use your real name. I know it's a privacy pain, but remember that's the whole point about F*c*book: you're the product , not the customer. I know many people don't use their real names, but they are therefore in breach of T&Cs and FB can happily purge those accounts (an I believe they frequently do).

 

It's because of privacy concerns that I use FB as little as possible, and am careful about settings and personal details. I use my real name on FB (as the site runs around friend requests, I didn't see the point otherwise), but for other personal details I either don't submit them, or else use false info. DOB's the big problem: I absolutely refuse to have my DOB public as it's often used for security checks. However FB get funny about DOB's as they get so much flack over underage accounts.

Eugene's Lair
Eugene's Lair posted:

Saint - It's always been one of the (few) rules of F*c*book accounts that you use your real name. I know it's a privacy pain, but remember that's the whole point about F*c*book: you're the product , not the customer. I know many people don't use their real names, but they are therefore in breach of T&Cs and FB can happily purge those accounts (an I believe they frequently do).

 

It's because of privacy concerns that I use FB as little as possible, and am careful about settings and personal details. I use my real name on FB (as the site runs around friend requests, I didn't see the point otherwise), but for other personal details I either don't submit them, or else use false info. DOB's the big problem: I absolutely refuse to have my DOB public as it's often used for security checks. However FB get funny about DOB's as they get so much flack over underage accounts.

You think a new account (with generic name) is inevitable then ? 

Saint

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