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Michael J. Bess (2 KP) rated Facebook in Apps

Jul 6, 2018

Facebook

Communication, Entertainment, Events, Social Networking

7.6

(436 Ratings)

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Dedicated record of friends listed, capability of adding pics and separating them by occasion, use of app to log into other apps (0 more)

Lacks secure verification process when creating account (0 more)

Great way to maintain relationships, but bad if you do not want your personal life all out there

I use Facebook to keep in contact with men and women I served with when I was in the Marine Corps. Whenever I remember the name of one, I go online and try to track them down. At least 1/4 of my 1000+ friend's list consists of veterans and current servicemembers and civilian employees.

But one thing that Facebook needs to improve on is it's verification process. My 13-year-old niece has had a page (TWO pages in fact!) since she was barely ten. I immediately contacted Facebook about this because I didn't want my niece to be another stat where she is preyed upon online by some phedophile. Facebook continued to keep the pages up.

Another reason the process needs to be improved is because someone may end up being "Catfished," for a lack of better term. My personal business was posted online by a woman whom I never met and I had no idea why this person would do something like that. More than two years later, I found that it wasn't a woman who posted the info, but it was a male friend of mine! A person who I had played practical jokes on the past but never to this extreme. Needless to say we are not longer friends as his ex-wife (my current girlfriend) informed me of other scrupulous things he had done with this particular page.