Facebook deleting profiles with fictional names!
 

I dont know how many of you have noticed it but this is something very serious! Two days ago when i went to facebook it showed me a message that the profile has been closed, without giving any reasonf or that! Then i try to create a new Shredder profile and it told me this:''We ask from all users to use their own real name in facebook''. Then i checked the profiles of people that i had added in my friend list that also have tmnt characters names(mostly they were shredders too and foot members) and i noticed that most oft hem has been deleted too! By doing it facebook is hutrting tmn! Not only delete our profiles but it dosent let us create a profile with a name of a tmnt characters. Nickelodeon enemies must have paid lot of millions for facebook to do that! Your opinions? Discuss!!!

Exactly what I was thinking.

What a shame, Facebook seems to hate the Shredder xD.

Facebook is heavily cracking down on people who use fake or "gimmick" names. A lot of people I work with in the wrestling business have had problems with it, especially. Most of them specifically do NOT use their real names on Facebook, for obvious privacy reasons, yet still want to interact with fans and other people in the business (since nobody in wrestling knows anyone else's name either, usually... I mean you only ever see each other when you're in-character). Or still more will have both a Public FB page with their performer name, and also a Private FB page just for friends and family, using their real name.

For some reason FB has been seriously going after people since like October. I'm not sure why but I have noticed that I suddenly can't recognize any of the names on my Friends list, and that's not something I'm a fan of. I think they need to leave it alone.

Well, FB is picky anyhow about extra accounts and accounts that aren't just plainly you.

I'd once had several accounts set up with some similar names and, in particular, very similar emails via semi-temp email accounts, i.e. Indigoerth1@, Indigoerth2@. (Don't ask, it was for game cheating so I didn't have to bother others when I needed some stupid item. lol) They eventually caught on and I lost most that were too similar. (I created some new extras later, but I had to give them more variety.)

So, I don't know if it would be a distinctly TMNT thing or rather just names they've caught on to.

Personally FB needs to pull the stick out of it's butt over that. They claim it's to protect people, as if you're scamming with a fake identity or something, but come on, most aren't.

I don't really see the point off making RP accounts on FB unless it's your own intellectual property or persona.

No it was not a RP account. I had it since 2008 i created both to communicate with friends and also to organize Foot Operations . FB claims that they do it because there are criminals that they use facebook too, but deleting profiles with nicknames is not the solution to the problem. I already told about it to all of my friends and some of them decided to delete their profiles(even though not all of them have nicknames as their facebook names) because they believe just like me that internet must be free and not censored by big companies like fb or any other!

They hate turtles too , there are lot of Turtles profiles that has been deleted!

Facebook is sh*t. Who cares? They want to be able to sell all of your personal info to other companies.

Also, I don't think this belongs in this sub-forum.

I don't know what this is about, but I don't think FB hates TMNT. Maybe they're doing this as a way for people to use real names. I'd love to have an FB account that's not my real name, but if I can't do that, then I just won't go on there. I'd rather go on Tumblr, and I suggest you do the same, dude.

So... wait up. You're not the real Oroku Saki?

Guys, this is a conspiracy!!!1!1!

You know, maybe they don't want you to sign up as that name because you're stealing someone's identity, and they don't want anyone else using the name.

So you mean there's actually a site out there that refuses to let you pretend you're Shredder? Maybe God is real after all!

I remember reading about this, When Facebook were forcing Drag Queens to change there names to RL ones.

Google Plus however, Lets you put in whatever name you want.

Okay "Casey". :lol: Just ribbin' ya, sailor. :tcool:

I think I set mine up as "athlete" or "entertainer" so that could be why I haven't been hassled. ((Knocks wood)) I don't really care about FB but it's pretty much required for the wrestling business. I try and have some fun with it sometimes. Too many people playing "Look at me! I'm special!" though.

I sorta don't, I have my middle in place of my last. (Don't tell FB! lol)


Wouldn't it be terrible if Oroku is a legit surname and someone with it who's a Turtle fan decided to name their kid Saki? They could never have a Facebook account. lol


Facebook is stupid like that though. I've heard of Native American folks having to fight with them due to some last names or whatnot over regular legit accounts. Shame.

Edit: Relevant article.
http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...suit-real-name

Geez, next thing ya know we'll be required to show a copy of our IDs to be allowed to have a profile on any social networking site.

Your humor wins the Technodrome forums for the day, sir... laughed my shell off. :tlol::tlol::tlol::tlol:

It's still early and I haven't had any coffee. I'm still in this thing. Let's not go saying things we can't take back later.

But yeah that was a good rib. :tlol:

Make a fan page or a Twitter.

How is FB censoring the internet? Their site their rules. Don't like it or can't abide by their rules then don't use it. It sounds like they're trying to help you by making you stop role playing.

My FB troll account is still active. Maybe you need to be more sneaky like me.

So that's mean that Kal -El, Nicolas Cage's son will never have a Facebook account.

Didn't Kevin Smith name his daughter Harley Quin?

Woof! This is some gold.

I hear there is a way to register a pseudonym, but I think it only works if you're famous.

I love Kevin but that's a f*cking awful name.

That's ridiculous. He said it wasn't even a RP account, and others are having the same problem because they use pseudonyms. Heck, a lot of people on FB don't want to use their real names for privacy reasons, whether they're famous or not. And it's a shame that they can't do that now, because FB wants to keep "criminals" out, but they're going about it all wrong, if that's the case. You don't weed out bad apples by tossing out good ones, too. That's just stupid. And rules or no rules, if it's HURTING your customer base, it's just BAD BUSINESS.

Endusers aren't the customer base, advertisers are. We're the product to be sold.

He shoulda gone with Harleen Quinzel instead. Much more normal. :tlol:

Except without the end-users, they'd have no COMPANY. Since it was designed FOR the users, NOT the advertisers. That s**t came later.

Lot of entitlement for a service that is free of charge.

Not an RP account, but still for organizing "Foot activities" as Shredder... Ha, right.

This is not an untrue statement.

Not entitlement, just stating the simple fact of what it was created for. SOCIAL media, NOT advertising. It was/is a format for people to keep in touch and communicate on-line with personal news, photos, etc. It was NOT created as an on-line yellow-pages. Sadly, that is what it's turning into. Capitalism at its finest..... And incidentally, they HAVE considered charging in the past. Ended with a mass protest that got the idea nixed. Anybody remember that?

Yet they can pull down profiles just because it HAPPENS to have a fictional character's name. Hmmm, I'm sensing some possible future backlash.... I mean, what are the odds even that some pedo creep is going to name their profile something like "Sailor Moon" or "Leonardo Hamato", anyway? This isn't going to root out that kind of crap- if anything, it's just going to make them more creative in how they "hide". By making up fake names or using some random name from the phone book or whatever. How would anyone ever KNOW that's not their REAL name??!

Yep, exactly. As long as you have an e-mail address, anyone can log on as anything. But this is the way these sites run, and it's sad. FB is a sh*thole which is why I'm not on it. They just want to control everything and everybody when it was simply created for people to stay in touch with each other.

I'm in agreement with this. Facebook is meant for real people to connect with each other, not pretend people.