Facebook wants nothing to do with fake profiles or accounts created using made-up names. To that end, it'll boot profiles it deems suspicious. That's a problem for individuals with unusual names, some of whom say they've been cut off from Facebook without warning simply because the site suddenly concluded they were not real people.
Facebook's effort to purge its site of fake accounts, in the process knocking out some real people with unusual names, marks yet another challenge for the 5-year-old social network.
As Facebook becomes a bigger part of the lives of its more than 200 million users, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company is finding that the huge diversity and the vast size of its audience are making it increasingly difficult to enforce rules it set when its membership was smaller and more homogenous.
Having grown from a closed network available only to college students to a global social hub used by multiple generations, Facebook has worked over the years to shape its guidelines and features to fit its changing audience. However, requiring people to sign up under their real name is part of what makes Facebook Facebook.
Facebook is available in more than 40 languages -- and growing -- and its user base is larger than Brazil's population.
However, financially it is still a startup.
Source : ECT News Network
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