Facebook Now Requiring Developer Verification
All developers will need to verify their accounts through Facebook’s standard account verification procedures before being allowed to create new applications on the platform, Facebook announced today in a blog post.
Platform verification is not a new topic for Facebook, but today marks the first time developers themselves will be require to provide verification.
Developer verification, like standard user verification, is quick and simple requiring either a phone number or credit card (which is not charged). This ensures all accounts creating applications on the platform are tied to real identities. The new verification procedures may be in response to recent security issues, allowing Facebook to better police its platform for repeat offenders.
June 2nd, 2010 at 4:11 pm
mmm… not sure how a phone number verifies someone’s identity… I can have several prepaid SIM cards, even from different countries, and in some country even anonimously! How would this verify a developer?
June 2nd, 2010 at 4:41 pm
At the very least it makes it more difficult for someone to repeatedly abuse the Platform after their account gets banned.
June 2nd, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Pointless.
This worked back in the LANDLINE days of the BBS when sysops of “warez” boards had callback verification. But in the days of instant cellphone number changing, any hacker can use the number once, then get a new one.
This still doesn’t go far enough. I had to verify myself ti FB way back in the beginning. It’s called an .EDU address. Something that can’t be forged or created on a whim then changed. It says I am real, having to give up personal info about myself to my school in order to get the privilege of having that email. FB doesn’t have that info, but the school does. There needs to be a similar standard for “commoners”.
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:35 am
Maybe if you are an American student you have a .edu address, but what if you are not American or no more a student?
June 3rd, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Plenty of foreign schools use .edu domain extensions. Since I didn’t specifically mention it in my post; a separate entity should be setup to regulate official, one per person, verified email addresses for those who have not gone to college.
June 3rd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Forgot to mention, even alumni can get emails. The ones on there now are just too lazy or stupid or don’t want to pay a yearly fee. Some schools give out free ones to former students. But since the .edu requirement for joining died a painful death in ’06, people don’t bother researching. Even when it was a requirement, I doubt many people cared enough to look into it. But now that FB is such a huge “to be on” thing, there are people on there who only go as far as listing their school as a link in their education section.
If you’re not smart enough to join your college network, you’re not smart enough to use FB as far as I’m concerned. It just amazes me how little people bother to read instructions or investigate anymore, which is the backlash for privacy settings and the opt-in hooplah. If they’d bothered to adjust their settings or look at them to see they sharing everything to the world instead of ASSUMING everything was locked down, there probably wouldn’t be such a noise.
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November 7th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
It is really hard to say how facebook team has thought this as a positive sign to verify the developers. It increases spam and nothing else