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To obtain THIS highly sought after checkmark to appear by your social media account name, you have to visit a notary, show 3 approved forms of identification, and scan your biometric identifiers into the social media company's website.
Afterward, you will only be able to post from approved devices
with the ability to read fingerprints or scan an IR/3D image of your face. You will have to submit to a scan to begin a post, and then once more to post it. No dictating to a third party. No assistants, no secretaries, no friends or relatives. That post DEFINITELY came from you. It's been verified. Verified AF.
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The problem with that method is it's fallible. Say you have to scan a chip card like a Common Access Card in the military. I can hand that card to my secretary and she can post away on my behalf. Or the card can be lost or stolen, and used to make several posts before the owner realizes it has been stolen and deactivates it. |
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The idea is to stop people with verified accounts from having other people post and comment on their behalf. A checkmark by your name should indicate it's YOU we're conversing with. That way someone can't blame a gaff on a staffer or anyone else. So, if you can simply give your password or PIN to someone else, it doesn't work. |
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Well, yes and no. What's to stop you from having an underling register his/her biometrics under your account name? You could potentially register your face and an assistant's fingerprints, or one finger each, so you can both login whenever you want. Depending how many fingers it allows you to register, you could potentially have up to 10 different people register prints for one account. Most biometric security systems allow at least 2 fingers, so you can sign in with either hand if you only have one free. That's where the notary comes in, to verify the account owner is the one registering both sets of biometrics. |
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If you want to be verified AF (TM)... It really is the only way. |
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That's true, but that would SEVERELY limit the number of devices that are compatible with the service. Every modern smartphone has a fingerprint scanner. Not every smartphone has a face scanner that can't be fooled with a photograph held in front of it. |
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That's interesting... I was thinking at first it would become an iPhone exclusive because of Face ID (which would never fly for something like Twitter or someone like Elon Musk), but iPhones DON'T have fingerprint scanners. But many computers DO have both, including Microsoft's Surface line. |
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Musk is gonna have to expand into the smartphone market lol |
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..... and then the social media site gets hacks and they have all of your biometric details, which you can never change..... Facebook in particular is like a sieve and has lost millions of user details on a number of occassions - besides, it's twitter you're worried about, it's imploding with Musk in charge and may not actually survive. |
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aside - I had the lovely blue halfbakery tick for a while but now it's gone.... |
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Eh? Are you sure you have the right post bud? |
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Ah, I see your problem. Have you tried bourbon? Oughta clear your vision right up. |
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By the by, I wouldn't be offended at all by a spin off idea. Let's see it! |
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I think that you could have a social network that was even more verified than this. Basically the system would only allow posts to be made from company-owned terminals in secure premises. I suppose anyone could read, but in order to click "like" or to post "LOL" or "you loser" or "just bored ATM waiting for the dishwasher to finish" or whatever people post on social media, you would have to go to the local premises, sign in with multiple IDs checked by the security staff at the door, and sit at a secure terminal while the security guard stood over you watching what you did. I imagine that if the network was popular enough there could be franchised premises in every town or even more densely situated than that. |
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