Facebook Features: Social Media Site Creating New Rules on Real Names
Facebook is changing the way they will enforce their real names policy. They have created two new policies to try to make users feel safer when communicating with other Facebook users.
Facebook announced Tuesday they will be enforcing their names process to ensure that people are using their real names, if possible, and to help users report fake profiles.
The first policy helps users report names that are either incorrect or fake. The reporting tool will ask for more details on why the user is reporting the name. Users can report fake names, someone using someone else's name or pictures or a name that the person does not go by in real life.
Facebook will ask why the user is reporting the name before concluding the report. This helps Facebook decide whether or not action needs to be taken on the report.
The next policy helps users who have their profiles reported as being an incorrect name. Facebook says that sometimes people have special circumstances to use an alternate name, like feeling in danger of being targeted by a group of people or discrimination.
Facebook will ask users for reasons why they are using an alternate name. They will ask the user if they feel like they are being bullied or stalked, if they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer or if they are an ethnic minority. If users provide one of these reasons, they will not be asked for further reasons for their alternate name.
If Facebook finds that users have an alternate name for an unapproved reason, they will ask for identification that shows the person's name. Users will be given seven days to upload one of many approved forms of ID.
The new name features are being tested in the U.S. on the mobile and desktop platforms of Facebook.
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