Facebook adjusts authentication system to allow pseudonyms

Facebook has apologized to transvestites who were not allowed to use their pseudonyms, but had to use their birth name. The site is going to adjust the authentication system for pseudonyms that members use in daily life.

Facebook recently came under fire from transvestites and transsexuals for its naming policy: members were accused of not using their real names and thus breaking Facebook rules. Using real names is the foundation of Facebook: this allows the site to create more personal profiles, which is valuable to advertisers.

Facebook’s product chief Chris Cox apologized on behalf of the site: “An individual on Facebook decided to report hundreds of accounts as fake. These reports were among the hundreds of thousands of fake account notifications we get every week, 99 percent of which are bad users. who do bad things: imitate, bully, troll, threaten, cheat, etc. That’s why we didn’t see the pattern.”

Cox claims that the verification policy through membership cards, library cards and emails has been working well for a decade to find out if a user is using their real name and “create a safe community without harming groups, as is happening now.” to him it has always been the intention that people on Facebook use their names that they also use in daily life: “For Sister Roma, that is Sister Roma. For Lil Miss Hot Mess, that’s Lil Miss Hot Mess.” He also promises that Facebook will adjust its authentication system accordingly, without going into details about the changes.

Last summer, Google dropped its requirement to use real names for Google+.