Native Americans Say Facebook Is Accusing Them of Using Fake Names
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(I do understand why'd they regex for bad names since at one point Apple publicly showed who was enqueued for support, but not very helpful to tell someone their last name isn't good when they already need help! Not trying to be sensational, but they could have just flagged it for human review to see if the name was an obvious joke, or better yet, not display names publicly)
I have no idea how often my name causes communication to be silently dropped.
This is why you don't use something as simplistic as regex to do your automated moderation. Automated moderation is a pretty tricky area and requires something at least as sophisticated as naive Bayes.
Given one of the more notable sports stars of the last few years is Lydia Ko I'm surprised that made it into production.
http://www.kidspot.com.au/chloe-renee-andre-need-apply-accen...
And we of course don't use just latin character sets in Europe (Greek and Cyrillic scripts are both even official scripts of the European Union), even excluding immigrants.
Google+ had similar problems, if I remember right, and they ultimately solved the problem by getting rid of the real name policy entirely.
Just curious, but why is she legally required to do that? I understand why she would as a safety precaution, of course.
See, "real name" means "the name which is actually yours". The set "real name" and "name that looks good to Facebook" are different, intersecting sets.
If you want to evade a stalker, you can use a fake name which looks good to Facebook: a "realistic" name, let's call it.
On any web site that insists on banning certain names, you can easily pick a name that is not banned, yet that is not your real name.
Then again, maybe things aren't quite as dramatic as incinuated :>
I do not use my "real name" on Facebook, or elsewhere online apart from in a professional capacity, and this is precisely the way I want it. If you know only my real name, not the one I have been using for the last 10 years, then you are not someone I want to be in contact with.
(2) That there are other ways of staying in touch with friends
(3) That given the situation, if everything is in fact true, it seems the wrong compromise has been made. Maintaining the safety of your family should trump being able to always have someone/something to chit chat with.
LOL.
I use fb as a completely public forum. I assume everything I post can be seen by anyone. That is the only sane way to use it. fb has repeatedly shown that they don't give a s*it about your privacy or the settings you pick for it.
I'll have as many faces as there are people who face me, thank you.
I suspect it is one of those ideas that would fall apart very quickly if he was actually put in a position where he was called out on it every time he himself demonstrated such supposed lack of integrity.
To me it indicates he'd never seriously thought about how people actually interact, and that's quite scary.
That's an odd phrasing for something that should be very easy to verify.
"Facebook Is Disallowing Native American Names"
Facebook didn't allow my name either as it assumed I was somehow trying to harm the company. It allowed me to register with a fake name though.
This was many years ago. I decided to just not care about Facebook and never used it anymore.
It seems like a lot of hassle to try and automatically enforce an obviously difficult problem with little upside. Human behaviors, try as we might, are never going to conform to rigorous standards. :)
How is that any better?