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Maybe I'm behind the times, but isn't the whole deal of Facebook that I've chosen to be friends with these people who I know in real life? Why do I need them to

by Imnimo 4y ago

Maybe I'm behind the times, but isn't the whole deal of Facebook that I've chosen to be friends with these people who I know in real life? Why do I need them to be verified?

baby 4y ago
There are celebrities you can follow on fb now. Or companies.
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wodenokoto 4y ago
You don't. This is for the Lady Gaga's and Elon Musks of facebook. Followers want to be able to know if they are following the real deal, and the real deal wants to be certain that they can be differentiated from the fakes.
- Imnimo 4y ago
  I must not understand how Facebook works anymore. I didn't realize you can follow people, I thought you just sent mutual friend requests.
  - dbbk 4y ago
    It's also for Instagram.
  - technion 4y ago
    It used to be that you could search for "John" and it would show you a range of Johns that you might know. I just tried it and it recommended several "John Wick" pages. I found the button to set the search to only show "People", and it now shows me several Keanu Reeves accounts (probably all fake). I guess if you accept that this is what they want their search to look like, the "verified" angle does work.
- wg0 4y ago
  There would be 20,000 such Stars paying 10 dollars a month. Than what?
  - shapefrog 4y ago
    That covers the monthly cost of tyres for the Facebook private jets, one less thing to worry about /s
    - quickthrower2 4y ago
      They should fleece the celebs better. Verified celeb (you are the real Tom Cruise not just share his name) pays $10k/m. That would still only be $200m though. Barely a seed round.
      - shapefrog 4y ago
        The real world system actually works in reverse to this ... the little people make large numbers of micropayments through pay / ads / donations / etc and the celebs get paid a big pile of cash after the platform takes its cut. Musk and Meta are trying to reinvent this, but they have it backwards - if your platform depends on people to post "content" you should be rewarding the people that draw the masses to your platform not raising pointlessly small amounts directly from them.
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- dyno12345 4y ago
  the value generated by having them on the platform is probably thousands of times greater than that, so it's weird that they're charging a token fee for the privilege
  - wodenokoto 4y ago
    Well, that’s why everyone thought Elon was stupid for introducing it. But in line with facebooks strategy book, if a competitor is doing it, we better implement it too.
firecall 4y ago
There are spam accounts generated that appear to be the real person you already know. Often actual people either lose their FB accounts because they forgot their password, lost the email associated or the 2FA etc... or they closed the account down. Then real people open another account and re-connect to their old friend groups. Spammers mimic this behaviour by replicating peoples accounts and then sending out new friends requests that appear to be from someone you know. Once you accept the spammers friend request they begin to send you malware phishing links and so on. I'm sure there are other scams around this I havent heard of! :-)

by Imnimo 4y ago

Maybe I'm behind the times, but isn't the whole deal of Facebook that I've chosen to be friends with these people who I know in real life? Why do I need them to be verified?

baby 4y ago

There are celebrities you can follow on fb now. Or companies.

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wodenokoto 4y ago

You don't. This is for the Lady Gaga's and Elon Musks of facebook. Followers want to be able to know if they are following the real deal, and the real deal wants to be certain that they can be differentiated from the fakes.

Imnimo 4y ago
I must not understand how Facebook works anymore. I didn't realize you can follow people, I thought you just sent mutual friend requests.
- dbbk 4y ago
  It's also for Instagram.
- technion 4y ago
  It used to be that you could search for "John" and it would show you a range of Johns that you might know. I just tried it and it recommended several "John Wick" pages. I found the button to set the search to only show "People", and it now shows me several Keanu Reeves accounts (probably all fake). I guess if you accept that this is what they want their search to look like, the "verified" angle does work.
wg0 4y ago
There would be 20,000 such Stars paying 10 dollars a month. Than what?
- shapefrog 4y ago
  That covers the monthly cost of tyres for the Facebook private jets, one less thing to worry about /s
  - quickthrower2 4y ago
    They should fleece the celebs better. Verified celeb (you are the real Tom Cruise not just share his name) pays $10k/m. That would still only be $200m though. Barely a seed round.
    - shapefrog 4y ago
      The real world system actually works in reverse to this ... the little people make large numbers of micropayments through pay / ads / donations / etc and the celebs get paid a big pile of cash after the platform takes its cut. Musk and Meta are trying to reinvent this, but they have it backwards - if your platform depends on people to post "content" you should be rewarding the people that draw the masses to your platform not raising pointlessly small amounts directly from them.
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dyno12345 4y ago
the value generated by having them on the platform is probably thousands of times greater than that, so it's weird that they're charging a token fee for the privilege
- wodenokoto 4y ago
  Well, that’s why everyone thought Elon was stupid for introducing it. But in line with facebooks strategy book, if a competitor is doing it, we better implement it too.

firecall 4y ago

There are spam accounts generated that appear to be the real person you already know. Often actual people either lose their FB accounts because they forgot their password, lost the email associated or the 2FA etc... or they closed the account down. Then real people open another account and re-connect to their old friend groups. Spammers mimic this behaviour by replicating peoples accounts and then sending out new friends requests that appear to be from someone you know. Once you accept the spammers friend request they begin to send you malware phishing links and so on. I'm sure there are other scams around this I havent heard of! :-)