Social networks are a hub of fake profiles. If you go and search a name of any celebrity on a social networking site, I am sure you will find 100’s of profiles in the name of that particular celebrity. I had once given a try on Facebook & found numerous profiles in the name of the founder of the site, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg.
Looking into the matter of fake profile, way back in 2009, Twitter was the 1st social networking site, who launched a feature which verified the accounts. From then Twitter has got famous as it has a single & a verified profile of the celebrities. Last year, soon after the launch of Google+, even Google+ launched the feature to get the profiles verified.
So now, in the social network cold war, Facebook was lagging behind a bit because of this feature. But from today Facebook has said that it will get the profile verified which have got many subscribers. These verified profiles will be given an option to display their nick names in place of their birth names & would be given a lofty place in “People to subscribe to” suggestions. As per the naming policy of Facebook, you will be allowed to use your nick name as your profile name but your birth name will be appeared on your “About” section of your profile.
To get yourself verified, you need to get selected by Facebook. There is no way to get you voluntarily verified. If Facebook feels that your profiles needs to get verified then only you will have to verify your profile.
If Facebook would choose you, then you will get an option to submit a snap of any of your identity proof which is been verified by the government. After the verification, Facebook will delete the proof from its database.
So now, Facebook might surely try to get verified profiles of Stefani Germanotta aka Lady Gaga & Marshall Bruce Mathers II aka Eminem. If they are the real identities, then soon their profiles will show their real birth names or at least their birth names would be shown in the “About” section of their profiles.
Finally, I would say that this is a nice step taken by Facebook. May be this could impact Facebook a bit as all the updates from fake profiles will stop. Thus overall interaction on Facebook might reduce. But the 750 million users using Facebook will be surely benefited as they will start getting updates from all verified profiles.
Originally posted @ techtricksworld
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