I don't use my real name on Face Book for privacy reasons
A group I joined reported my account as possibly being fake
Now Facebook want evidence this is my real name I use every day
What can I do short of creating a new account?
I don't want to use my real name
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Saint posted:I don't use my real name on Face Book for privacy reasons
A group I joined reported my account as possibly being fake
Now Facebook want evidence this is my real name I use every day
What can I do short of creating a new account?
I don't want to use my real name
It’s a pain Renton....I had someone accuse me of being fake cos I don’t use a proper pic as my avi ...and my account is locked down . Can you perhaps *adjust* your real name slightly ...or even use your Surname and Renton 
Sadly not - Fb want evidence of the name I use
Evidence in the form of an official document
Looks like I will have to make a new account
But is it the REAL log in page, or a scammed version made to look like it?
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:But is it the REAL log in page, or a scammed version made to look like it?
How could I tell?
Googled FB and it took me to the same page 
Seems real
I joined a group on FB
They queried if my page was genuine
Next thing ... I was asked to log back in with a query to identify my user name as geniune
I don’t do FB so I have no idea about any of this. HTH 
Yogi19 posted:I don’t do FB so I have no idea about any of this. HTH
Well you should ... it has many groups you can join ... ones of common interests
Which seemed to be my undoing, however
Saint posted:Yogi19 posted:I don’t do FB so I have no idea about any of this. HTH
Well you should ... it has many groups you can join ... ones of common interests
Which seemed to be my undoing, however
I don’t trust their security/privacy.
Yogi19 posted:Saint posted:Yogi19 posted:I don’t do FB so I have no idea about any of this. HTH
Well you should ... it has many groups you can join ... ones of common interests
Which seemed to be my undoing, however
I don’t trust their security/privacy.
You can make it as secure as you want `Yogi .....mine is locked down tight 
No one can contact me ...look for me ...or post on my wall ...unless I give them permission
Baz posted:Yogi19 posted:Saint posted:Yogi19 posted:I don’t do FB so I have no idea about any of this. HTH
Well you should ... it has many groups you can join ... ones of common interests
Which seemed to be my undoing, however
I don’t trust their security/privacy.
You can make it as secure as you want `Yogi .....mine is locked down tight
Hubby’s was hacked (he doesn’t do FB now) and several others - it’s the security of the site that is pants
This is why I never used a real name
No matter how secure - it's never fully secure
AND ... just as an example ...
I've told things to friends I never expected to be shared with mutual friends.
It's not a lack of trust it's just other friends have their own friends I don't like/trust. Before I've known what's happened everyone knows stuff I told to one person.
ALSO ... the stuff I've been able to discover about people is surprising
Baz posted:And I never put photos or personal info on there
Very sensible
Saint posted:This is why I never used a real name
No matter how secure - it's never fully secure
AND ... just as an example ...
I've told things to friends I never expected to be shared with mutual friends.
It's not a lack of trust it's just other friends have their own friends I don't like/trust. Before I've known what's happened everyone knows stuff I told to one person.
ALSO ... the stuff I've been able to discover about people is surprising
If I need to set up a new account I will have to use a common place kinda name .. John Smith or similar
Saint posted:If I need to set up a new account I will have to use a common place kinda name .. John Smith or similar
John Smith is too common, how about Tom Bell
Baz posted:Yogi19 posted:Saint posted:If I need to set up a new account I will have to use a common place kinda name .. John Smith or similar
John Smith is too common, how about Tom Bell
How about Tom Renton Bell ....or Tom St Bell
Oh yes, either of those would be good
Where did Bell come from??? LOL
I was thinking a nickname for the first
Aunt's maiden name for the second 
Well - I think a famous name is out
Or one already in use ... that i'm aware of
What a rotten thing to do - report someone a few days from Xmas
Saint - It's always been one of the (few) rules of F*c*book accounts that you use your real name. I know it's a privacy pain, but remember that's the whole point about F*c*book: you're the product , not the customer. I know many people don't use their real names, but they are therefore in breach of T&Cs and FB can happily purge those accounts (an I believe they frequently do).
It's because of privacy concerns that I use FB as little as possible, and am careful about settings and personal details. I use my real name on FB (as the site runs around friend requests, I didn't see the point otherwise), but for other personal details I either don't submit them, or else use false info. DOB's the big problem: I absolutely refuse to have my DOB public as it's often used for security checks. However FB get funny about DOB's as they get so much flack over underage accounts.
Eugene's Lair posted:Saint - It's always been one of the (few) rules of F*c*book accounts that you use your real name. I know it's a privacy pain, but remember that's the whole point about F*c*book: you're the product , not the customer. I know many people don't use their real names, but they are therefore in breach of T&Cs and FB can happily purge those accounts (an I believe they frequently do).
It's because of privacy concerns that I use FB as little as possible, and am careful about settings and personal details. I use my real name on FB (as the site runs around friend requests, I didn't see the point otherwise), but for other personal details I either don't submit them, or else use false info. DOB's the big problem: I absolutely refuse to have my DOB public as it's often used for security checks. However FB get funny about DOB's as they get so much flack over underage accounts.
You think a new account (with generic name) is inevitable then ?
Saint posted:You think a new account (with generic name) is inevitable then ?
Yes: but remember there's also the matter of an e-mail address (another F*c*book requirement). An account name of "Joe Bloggs" with an address of John.Doe@outlook.com may raise alarm bells. 
Same if you reuse an address from a previous account.
Yes I thought so - new email or at least one I haven't used for FB previously and new name. Nothing too obviously 'fake'.
It's a pain I guess but not impossible
Thank you Eugene
Saint posted:Where did Bell come from??? LOL
I was thinking a nickname for the first
Aunt's maiden name for the second
I have no idea, it just popped into my head - and I didn’t remember there was an actor of that name (although I do know who he is).
Thank you El Loro
Yogi - you mad crazy person that you are
Saint posted:Thank you El Loro
Yogi - you mad crazy person that you are
You’ve just realised that?!
Saint posted:Baz posted:I still think it sounds weird Renton.....why don’t you @El Loro.....he knows all about these type of things
Might be my best bet
El Rolio is a guy?
Yes, I'm a guy - the name says it as El in Spanish is The for masculine words, for feminine words it's La as in French
So when i'm singing the words of a song I don' know would it be
La doobie doobie
or
Le doobie doobie
Saint posted:So when i'm singing the words of a song I don' know would it be
La doobie doobie
or
Le doobie doobie
I don't know - you could ask that man who thought he was getting into the back of a taxi though that could take some time as it was a police car and he was found to be in possession of 1,000 of them.
