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So. Instead of paying a bunch of money and spending a lot of time on something that didn't feel right, you struck out on your own and self-educated yourself.

Own that decision! Having a fake Bachelor's degree from some fake accreditation system you invented will just make you seem like you're defensive about it or trying to pull one over on people or something. It just feels weird.

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What's so fake about it?

Completing a list of criteria and scoring well on standardized tests is pretty much all that qualifies somebody for a "degree" from any one of our current post secondary insitutions.

When you wrote "fake Bachelor's degree from some fake accreditation system" I assumed you were talking about the Universities and Colleges of the world.

What's so fake about buying 100,000 followers on twitter? It means you're famous, right?

You can certainly fake it, but it can only hold for so long. There are degrees today that do not uphold the knowledge you would expect that person to have.

And this is one of them.

Oh wait, except for the "expect to have" part.

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Doc...

What does being famous on twitter have to do with creating an education accreditation system?

Maybe Twitter could use a better accreditation system for being famous - is that what you're implying?

I don't think there is a need to be condescending here. I actually like this persons idea and I want to see how it pans out.

I don't read it as condescending. I read it as representative of the response of the average educated person to a degree whose accreditation is supported mostly by the opinion of recipients of the degree. If you educated yourself, say so, and provide evidence of your own knowledge. That way, you'll be one more person who shows the validity of self-education, and you'll make it easier for the next one.

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