Facebook Improves Real Name Policy

Facebook will improve its real name policy by December.

Facebook Inc. recently announced that the work in progress is all set to make the improvise the “real name” policy sothat the users can have access to a smooth road for all the users that have been unjustly removed and abandoned from the service because of the company’s policy. In the start of December, the company will test the modified service. The modifications in policies were announced by the company on Friday in a letter that was published by a Facebook executive. This letter was in response to The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties union’s open letter. Alex Schultz, the vice president of product growth at the social media giant claimed that the users have lodged several complains since they have to deal with various difficulties when they are asked to prove their identities through their real name since the process for stating is very inconvenient. Particularly the Lesbian Bisexual Gay Transgender (LGBT) community criticized the policy since victims of domestic abuse along with other professionals that encompasses advocates are not comfortable to use their real name for security reasons. So now FB understands that this policy is not suitable for all users thus they are ready to tweak this policy in a way that aids the masses. They will changes so that the Facebook users do not have to face any hindrances. A letter has been acquired by BuzzFeed in which Mr. Alex Schultz stated, “We know the current process does not work for everyone. We are working on several improvements, with two goals in mind: First, we want to reduce the number of people who are asked to verify their name on Facebook, when they are already using the name people know them by. Second, we want to make it easier for people to confirm their name if necessary.” According to the letter, the modifications have been designed in a manner so that the users get more space so that they get context regarding their preferred choice of name. Moreover, they also cleared that the tech behemoth does not require the legal birth names but those names that through which they are generally referred by. Apart from this, the tech giant is expected to make it relatively difficult for users to report abuses and violations since they will be asked to provide more information for reporting. Users will have to justify why they want the action.