Ah, Facesbuch.
Nov. 13th, 2019 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersGot to love them:
www.snopes.com/news/2019/11/12/bl-fake-profiles/
Now I may have a position on all this. I’ve been Johnny Ninefingers in various forms across the internet from the WWW’s burgeoning at the start of the milliennium. I was Johnny Ninefingers from the start of Facebook until someone told them that I wasn’t born Johnny Ninefingers, and my moniker was a nom de blues. I know who it was too. Rather than acquiesce to Facebook’s demands for all the relevant information about my life, I just left it without fuss. Many teachers, psychiatrists and other therapists, and musicians and other performers use pseudonyms or non-birth names on FB. So do Trans-folk. And some have fallen foul of FB’s rules of engagement. At least I find myself in good company.
But I am amused by how FB are prepared to turn a blind eye to considerably more egregious, nay fraudulent misrepresentations of themselves by people; well, as long as they have the correct political views, obvs.
Folk have allowed themselves to become self-sorters; of course they will have to come for the non-Facebook users first as they winnow the field. But the rest of you have graded yourselves, like turkeys awaiting Thanksgiving organising themselves into a line based on size, shape, and tastiness. Or likelihood of voting for Trump.
It’s not Ideal; but it is superb, unknowing, cultural self-satire.
www.snopes.com/news/2019/11/12/bl-fake-profiles/
Now I may have a position on all this. I’ve been Johnny Ninefingers in various forms across the internet from the WWW’s burgeoning at the start of the milliennium. I was Johnny Ninefingers from the start of Facebook until someone told them that I wasn’t born Johnny Ninefingers, and my moniker was a nom de blues. I know who it was too. Rather than acquiesce to Facebook’s demands for all the relevant information about my life, I just left it without fuss. Many teachers, psychiatrists and other therapists, and musicians and other performers use pseudonyms or non-birth names on FB. So do Trans-folk. And some have fallen foul of FB’s rules of engagement. At least I find myself in good company.
But I am amused by how FB are prepared to turn a blind eye to considerably more egregious, nay fraudulent misrepresentations of themselves by people; well, as long as they have the correct political views, obvs.
Folk have allowed themselves to become self-sorters; of course they will have to come for the non-Facebook users first as they winnow the field. But the rest of you have graded yourselves, like turkeys awaiting Thanksgiving organising themselves into a line based on size, shape, and tastiness. Or likelihood of voting for Trump.
It’s not Ideal; but it is superb, unknowing, cultural self-satire.
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Date: 2019-11-13 10:39 pm (UTC)And come to think of it, the one kid who still maintains a Boomerbook account doesn't use his own name. Though he did once, so maybe the linkage is still there. I dunno.
Long way of saying FB is terribly selective about which people it goes after for phony profiles.
I use my own name there but I tell them I live in Turkey and was born in Bulgaria. You don't have to provide them with any relevant info about your life. And it's a good way to keep in touch when your network is particularly far flung.