Facebook Amends Real Name Policy For User Convenience
Facebook would be improving its real name policy in December, which would explain any action taken for identification.
Facebook has often faced criticism from many people who have been justified enough to utilize a name that is different from their official one. BuzzFeed reported that the social media giant would make some additions to its strategy in December. It is trying to protect itself from problems.
In a posted letter attained by BuzzFeed, an employee, Alex Schultz, stated that the current functionality does not serve the interests of everyone, and that a significant number of users have made a complaint to the organization that its name verification procedure is quite difficult.
This development has been made a year after the organization’s Chief Product Officer, Chris Cox, made an apology to the LGBT community for “the hardship that [Facebook] put [them] through in dealing with [their] Facebook accounts.” Chris also stated, “We owe you a better service and a better experience using Facebook, and we’re going to fix the way this policy gets handled so everyone affected here can go back to using Facebook as you were.”
Facebook News exclaimed that previously in the current month, a number of organizations wrote a letter in which they demanded a fixation of the broken strategy. These encompass American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, and Electronic Frontier Foundation.
“It’s time for Facebook to provide equal treatment and protection for all who use and depend on Facebook as a central platform for online expression and communication,” the letter stated. The EFF's letter stated the cosigners are representatives of gender variant persons and transgenders, those who utilize pseudonyms to shield themselves from ferocity, persons who have previously been quieted by the enterprise’s existing procedure, and those whose official names “do not fit the arbitrary standards of ‘real names’ developed by Facebook.”
Facebook News today affirmed Alex replied to some questions raised in the letter by stating that the social network does not need individuals to utilize their legitimate names, just “the name that other people know them by.” To ease the authorization procedure, the organization is examining a new method to let users explain their names for verification.
Additionally, users could soon witness a new model of the company’s profile reporting procedure that would ask for more details regarding why anyone requests action to be carried out on that particular profile. For users, who have often suffered from profile suspension and have been requested to share identification for the reinstatement of their account, this could prove to be a right step. These initiatives would act as a bridge between the platform and its users to communicate for any action.
