<div dir="ltr">Cant comment on why she is unable to create an account.<div><br></div><div>I did spend a rather pleasant 6 months there, however.</div><div><br></div><div>The original idea was for everyone to use their own name.</div><div>FB would not let me register under my radio callsign, I had to use my actual name (which no one outside my family uses)</div><div>While I suspect they always intended to hoover data, </div><div>I dont think they anticipated the nasty turn that online social networks would take.</div><div> We all watched the social networking space go off the rails </div><div>and the TOTUS and the rest of the twits in DC started making noises about regulating social networking.</div><div><br></div><div>(Like to have seen them TRY to do that, Freedom of speech etc)</div><div>The social networking spaces all panicked and started looking for ways to get some of theis BS that was going viral under control.</div><div>Many went to automation. In some cases this automation falmunctions.</div><div><br></div><div>My theory is that your wife has somehow triggered this automation.</div><div><br></div><div>I really dont understand how some FB users are able to spend over 4hrs a day.</div><div>I have an account and I never have time to use it.</div><div>I opened it mostly to view links that people send me and I dont even have time to do that.</div><div>While I view it as a horrendous time sink, your wifes group seems to depend on this thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Begrudgingly, I suggest appealing to human beings at FB.</div><div>They actually do have a crew of people who are supposed to fix situations like this.</div><div>They figure out that your wife if not some fanatical follower of Lyndon LaRuche, and hopefully they can get her set up.</div><div><br></div><div>Despite her group, shes probably better off without it.</div><div>Sharon Sullivan is not joking when she looks up from her FB account and refers to it as (wait for it, wait for it...) "Face Crack"</div><div><br></div><div>The bulk of my social networking is LinkedIn despite the warts that IT has.</div><div>Well, that, and these silly email lists. (Did I say THAAAAAT?)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 9:03 PM <a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a> <<a href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org">paulz@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail-m_8510466217039002968ydpc9a9a76yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
<div>I liked the story. <br></div><div><br></div><div>However, my wife was apparently not allowed into FB using her real name which appears on websites for several organizations.<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 4:14:27 PM PST, Texx <<a href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" target="_blank">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="gmail-m_8510466217039002968ydp26e142cbyiv4411158118"><div><div dir="ltr">Indulge me as I tell you a little story:<div><br clear="none"></div><div class="gmail-m_8510466217039002968ydp26e142cbyqt1589021278" id="gmail-m_8510466217039002968ydp26e142cbyqt36688">...<br><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Interestinglyly enough, FB still to this day tries to prevent people from joining under "screen names".</div><div>They want your REAL name and for good reason.</div><div>Supposedly to avoid online bullying, but we know the REAL reason dont we?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><br>R "Texx" Woodworth<br>Sysadmin, E-Postmaster, IT Molewhacker<br>"Face down, 9 edge 1st, roadkill on the information superdata highway..."<br></div>