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Anyone else find this announcement totally pathetic ? In what world does anyone care about meta impersonation anymore ? Does anyone make public announcement on

• jonathankoren 4y ago
  Worse yet, it’s clear they have no ideas or understanding why this was a bad idea at Twitter. It’s just copying for copying sake.
  • anonuser123456 4y ago
    Was it a bad idea at twitter? Or was Musks handling of the whole situation just crap? If Musk had made an impassioned case about why, and engaged peoples concerns in a grown-up way it might have gone better.
    • bionade24 4y ago
      It certainly was the handling and the strategy how they'd introduce it. First, they obviously should haven't repurposed an existing badge. Im my opinion, setting a lower price in the 1st three months and openly communicating that the price will increase a bit seems like a choice to get quick adoption. 8$/month is too high when people can't experience the value of it yet.
    • jonathankoren 4y ago
      It is both. It was an asinine play obvious to anyone that thought about the trolling for half a second, and the purported benefits were what? Now you too can get a blue checkmark? Sure the verification process was capricious crap, but now he's ransoming back features to people. Musk is a fool. But Zuck is the fool that follow him.
• labrador 4y ago
  > In what world does anyone care about meta impersonation anymore? My 84 yr old mother does. It really annoys her when someone steals her profile picture, makes an account in her name and starts sending friend requests to her friends. I told her Facebook could fix this easily but they don't want to. Now I can tell her they want to charge her to fix it.
  • hackernewds 4y ago
    are they scammers?
    • gowld 4y ago
      Yes. Or, if the target person is famous, it could be used for defamation or harassment.
    • labrador 4y ago
      It's happened to my mother several times. Nearest I can tell, they want to see her non-public posts for advertising purposes and this is why Facebook doesn't fix it. More money for them. It causes her a significant amount of distress, so simply put, Mark Zuckerberg abuses the elderly.
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  • advisedwang 4y ago
    Will this actually solve this? Her account may be verified but that doesn't stop another unverified account from spoofing her. The announcement mentions "impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you" but I'm skeptical how advanced that's going to be. It can't stop name reuse (because real people have the same name). And preventing someone creating a second account with the same image would be perfectly possible today, with no verification system, so I doubt that's it either.
    • anonuser123456 4y ago
      It’s a chicken and egg problem. You want people to start ignoring unverified accounts and make the social expectation that only verified accounts are good. But people. won’t do so until it’s common. Once established it’s a great network effect. But networks with effects are hard to start.
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• anonuser123456 4y ago
  Asking people to pay for services is always a good thing. If Metas only revenue is information peddling, expect the lowest common denominator product. And anything pushing internet identity forward is also good. With the rise of chatgpt verification of “human” is going to be important.
• hammock 4y ago
  We may find it pathetic for a different reason - when everyone was so down on Elon taking over Twitter and how he was running it into the ground, and now Meta is saying actually that’s not a bad idea, in fact it’s a great idea and we’re going to do it even to the point of taking a huge blow to our ego