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#1 Post by BikerGran » Tue Jun 23, 2015 4:40 pm

Due to their bloody silly ID thing - they want people, so they say, to use the name on Facebook that they use in daily life.

Well I'm called Bobbi - have been since I was a baby! NO-ONE, EVER calls me by my given name - but of course it's on all official stuff that FB want as ID. I don't suppose theuy like 'BikerGran' as a middle name either - which is what I'm called by all those who don't call me Bobbi. Well, that or BG.

No idea how long it's going to take them to sort it out, but for my FB friends - that's why I'm not there!
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#2 Post by blinkey501 » Tue Jun 23, 2015 5:45 pm

BikerGran wrote:Due to their bloody silly ID thing - they want people, so they say, to use the name on Facebook that they use in daily life.

Well I'm called Bobbi - have been since I was a baby! NO-ONE, EVER calls me by my given name - but of course it's on all official stuff that FB want as ID. I don't suppose theuy like 'BikerGran' as a middle name either - which is what I'm called by all those who don't call me Bobbi. Well, that or BG.

No idea how long it's going to take them to sort it out, but for my FB friends - that's why I'm not there!
They have just done this to someone on a fb page I use?

He had changed his ID again, but still not his correct name? :smt002
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#3 Post by BikerGran » Tue Jun 23, 2015 6:26 pm

So how did he get away with that? I'm wondering about trying a new ID with a different email address, but don't know what I would call myself!
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#4 Post by D-Rider » Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:48 pm

So how do they know the rest of us use our real names?
They've never asked me to prove mine (and if they were that intrusive I'd probably leave).
Why on earth do they care what you call yourself (as long as it's within the bounds of common decency)?
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#5 Post by Dalemac » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:06 pm

D-Rider wrote:So how do they know the rest of us use our real names?
They've never asked me to prove mine (and if they were that intrusive I'd probably leave).
Why on earth do they care what you call yourself (as long as it's within the bounds of common decency)?
Advertising and/or selling your information on.
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#6 Post by mangocrazy » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:49 pm

And also so that you can be easily found when people are searching for old friends.
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#7 Post by BikerGran » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:11 pm

mangocrazy wrote:And also so that you can be easily found when people are searching for old friends.

Yeah right.
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#8 Post by flatlander » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:29 pm

See not using facefuck I don't have this problem
For the avoidance of doubt and for the benefit of my wife, not everything I may say here will be absolutely true I may on ocassion embellish a little for effect.
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#9 Post by BikerGran » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:39 pm

Thing is, when you can't get about as much as you used to it's a great way to keep in regular touch with the friends you've made all over the country - and it's much more immediate than writing letters and cheaper than phone calls - it's more like sharing their lives on a daily basis, and I'm really missing it!
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#10 Post by D-Rider » Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:07 am

I'm more concerned that it's for ease of surveillance by governmental snooping services in this age of increasing authoritarian paranoia.
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#11 Post by BikerGran » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:26 am

Don't think do, it's a yank site.
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#12 Post by mangocrazy » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:28 am

BikerGran wrote:Don't think do, it's a yank site.
And the Yanks don't do snooping?
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#13 Post by D-Rider » Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:53 am

mangocrazy wrote:
BikerGran wrote:Don't think do, it's a yank site.
And the Yanks don't do snooping?
Exactly .... (and the UK services cooperate with them and share intelligence)
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#14 Post by flatlander » Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:44 pm

Our services don't have enough intelligence to share!

Didn't mean to say it wasn't a good idea just not for me but then I'm anti social anyway and I have certificates to prove it!
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#15 Post by BikerGran » Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:59 pm

Personally I think it's to do with getting the name you use when paying for goods so that they can target advertising - cos that's where FB makes its money. I intend to to make sure that I tell them all the ads they put on my page are irrelevant and annoying!
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