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Of course people are verified. The forms of payment is enough verification. To claim a business you must submit form of payment and other legal proof. Social m

Of course people are verified. The forms of payment is enough verification. To claim a business you must submit form of payment and other legal proof. Social media distorts reality to the point that people are now confusing “verification” with “influence status”. Yes, if everybody can be verified, then it loses its value as a status symbol, and that’s good.

ethanbond 4y ago
Form of payment is not used as identity verification anywhere lol. Completely unrelated.
- a1445c8b 4y ago
  Do you mean it cannot be used for verification or just that it’s currently not practiced?
  - ethanbond 4y ago
    Go to a grocery store for a prepaid $10 Visa card, or privacy.com, or any of the thousand other services that generate virtual cards, and explain to me how you verify identity behind those. It’s not used for verification because credit card transactions don’t actually carry the information necessary to verify it. Even an actual physical card does not verify the name on it during transactions.
    - a1445c8b 4y ago
      That’s the thing, I don’t know enough about the inner workings of the credit card system so I couldn’t explain anything to you. …which is why I asked for clarification.
- aeternum 4y ago
  USPS uses a payment it to validate change of address requests.
  - ethanbond 4y ago
    1) Verifying an address is not the same as verifying an identity. 2) Your credit card billing info does mostly include your address. It does not however include your name. Your address is (mostly) validated by the transaction, your name is not at all.
andrekandre 4y ago
> Yes, if everybody can be verified, then it loses its value as a status symbol, and that’s good. why?
- a1445c8b 4y ago
  For one: People are less incentivized to bribe Twitter employees just to get the badge.
  - andrekandre 4y ago
    > bribe Twitter employees just to get the badge. wow, i had no idea that was a thing... interesting

ethanbond 4y ago

Form of payment is not used as identity verification anywhere lol. Completely unrelated.

a1445c8b 4y ago
Do you mean it cannot be used for verification or just that it’s currently not practiced?
- ethanbond 4y ago
  Go to a grocery store for a prepaid $10 Visa card, or privacy.com, or any of the thousand other services that generate virtual cards, and explain to me how you verify identity behind those. It’s not used for verification because credit card transactions don’t actually carry the information necessary to verify it. Even an actual physical card does not verify the name on it during transactions.
  - a1445c8b 4y ago
    That’s the thing, I don’t know enough about the inner workings of the credit card system so I couldn’t explain anything to you. …which is why I asked for clarification.
aeternum 4y ago
USPS uses a payment it to validate change of address requests.
- ethanbond 4y ago
  1) Verifying an address is not the same as verifying an identity. 2) Your credit card billing info does mostly include your address. It does not however include your name. Your address is (mostly) validated by the transaction, your name is not at all.

andrekandre 4y ago

> Yes, if everybody can be verified, then it loses its value as a status symbol, and that’s good. why?

a1445c8b 4y ago
For one: People are less incentivized to bribe Twitter employees just to get the badge.
- andrekandre 4y ago
  > bribe Twitter employees just to get the badge. wow, i had no idea that was a thing... interesting