Monday, July 20, 2009

Verify your Facebook account or else!

Over the last few weeks observations have been made about Facebook's policies. Interesting enough, those on Facebook who signed up as a "male" have to continually "verify" they are "human" by typing in two words. Each time someone who said they were "male" places a post on a group that "he" has joined, he is asked to "verify" by typing in the two words. (There is a screen shot below, from most recent update).

Interestingly enough, those who say that they are "females" do not have to "verify" anything after the first one or two times.

Recently a "male" joined a group on Facebook for his favorite online retailer, Newegg. When he tried to post a comment on the group's wall, he was told that he could not post until he "verified" his phone number. Oh, and yes, Facebook doesn't charge for this verification, but your provider "might."

After this guy avoided the demand to be verified several times, he found himself being asked to "verify" his account once again. Being told by the warning that he could not leave a post until he verified his phone number.

If Facebook is going to "require" people to verify things, they should pay you or reimburse you for that single text. Yes, this is "silly" to say, however it is even more silly for a company to REQUIRE that their users give them their phone numbers. If Facebook starts spamming people, or marketing through the phone numbers obtained, they should be in trouble legally. As it isn't right for them to limit "males" from posting.

Why is it that "females" are not continously asked to verify every email or "friend" invite sent, when men are asked to confirm/verify the two words EACH and EVERY time.

This begs the question, is Facebook, sexist? If not, why do they treat "males" differently than those who say that they are "females?" Hmmmm...

**UPDATE**
Several days have gone by and still the male that verified that he is a human, by submitting his cell phone number and entering the confirmation code that Facebook sent him, is being stopped by Facebook "Security Check! This check came up when he went to send an email to a friend. No pictures, no nothing, just an email.

Will it ever end? Or should he go change his profile to say "female?"

2 comments:

  1. Aw think tank, I am female and I have to verify every time as well. I think it might be something else. Perhaps we should both ask facebook?

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  2. Interesting. This is good to know. However, now the question is, why do some people have to verify everything and others, only once?

    Hmmmm...

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