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Today I came across the very (very!) popular italian satiric news “Striscia la Notizia“, where the presenters usually investigate, in a humorous way, about strange (but serious) facts happening around italians.
They interviewed a couple of popular italian TV stars who asked for their help because they were concerned about the sudden appearance of their “fake” identities on Facebook. All of them explained that many of their friends added those fake identies on Facebook and were sending them messages, even private sometimes.
That said, one of their guys went to the European Facebook headquarter in London and after explaining the problem, they refused to let them meet someone who could discuss the problem with them. The final comment? The most popular communication platform worldwide failed to succeed in communicating properly!
I don’t think this kind of problems will ever reach Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto and probably the guys at the reception desk in London didn’t really get the problem, in any case I look forward to hearing the official position of Facebook about fake identities since they are really potentially a huge problem.
What if people start creating fake identities of “normal” people? What if I create a fake identity of a person I know very well and whose I know it’s not on Facebook yet? Forget privacy, in my opinion it’s time for Facebook to think of this problem seriously an take the proper countermeasures soon.
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