I just wanted to upload bigger videos and avoid having to repeatedly type in CAPTCHAS. So I tried to verify my account, but no go, because I don't meet either of the 2 criteria. Reece @ Facebook Customer Operations confirmed:
There are are only 2 ways to verify your account. The first way is through your mobile phone. The second way to stop seeing captchas is to affiliate with a college network. If your school provides you with an email address, you can add a college network from the "Networks" tab of the Account page.
Thanks for giving the time to help me, Reece. I just wish it wasn't so limited, because, given that we had a person-to-person email exchange, I would think I qualified for person-ship!
I asked if exceptions were made. But sadly, no.
This seems ridiculously shortsighted. Then again, Facebook was founded on college social networking, so it doesn't seem like they'd be missing out a big opportunity. But still, they do have numerous workplace networks (like Linden Lab's), so why don't those count?
Interestingly, I just checked upload limits while logged in, and it now says:
Please upload a file only if:
- The video is under 300 MB and under 20 minutes.
- The video was made by you or your friends.
- You or one of your friends appears in the video.
Which is up from the 2-min. limit I saw before. Did something else change? 
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Facebook is annoying with their insisting on "real persons" that is actually more privacy and security threat than providing a good service and value to its users. Web was doing great in the old times without all that anti-pseudonymity movement.
My following comments are not to be construed as criticism to you as a person, Torley. However, please explain why you (and others) feel this strong desire to explore EVERY possible internet networking website available? Why are you driven to advertise your life, appearance,your knowledge, your skills, and your creations to the world? Sites like MySpace attract people who self-absorbed . People think that they are interesting and are positive the world wants to know it.
There are so many websites that I bet you feel pressured to "keep up" . Pressure to be "in the know" and among the crowd. Why? It must be exhausting to have to log into so many accounts and to keep up-to-date.
Again, from what I have seen, I enjoy your videos and I like your personality so I am not insulting you as a person. I just disagree with the value of it all. I think immersing ourselves into MANY websites is unhealthy in the big picture.
When I am elderly, I doubt that I will reflect back and wish I had spent MORE time on a computer. I will wish that I had spent more time eating a cool crisp watermelon on a hot summer day among friends at a lake…rather than trying to replicate this event virtually.
Please enlighten me on the value of being connected to many social websites?
Wow Razrcut I found your remark interesting!
"why*do* you (and others) feel this strong desire to explore EVERY possible internet networking website available? Why are you driven to advertise your life, appearance,your knowledge, your skills, and your creations to the world? Sites like MySpace attract people who self-absorbed . People think that they are interesting and are positive the world wants to know it."
So insightful! You said what I could not find words to say. At the same time bringing forth the understanding to me that possibly most people don't know they are letting their ego consume them. People are driven from within by their egos without knowledge of what drives them. In a way at this time this is a helpful fact. It is helping others who need the help to find themselves. There are people out in cyberspace who are expressing themselves in ways they were never able to before and people like Torley (full of energy and intelligence) are spreading the news "IT IS OK TO BE YOURSELF"
I am elderly 76 years old. I have been busy living a repressed inner life. With my computer I am able to do what my failing body is trying to prevent. 'ENJOY'
Perhaps the need to find every outlet on the internet serves a purpose to spread the word. 'IT'S OK TO CARE.'
I rejected social networking at first for similar reasons. I didn't see the value in posting random pictures of myself and listing favorite movies. I feel like myspace is still this way, whereas facebook is more of a tool.
It's extremely useful for planning parties / school projects / posting up a lab someone forgot to bring home. It's an advanced form of email, and you can of course personalize things and share whatever you want to. I go with minimal personalization myself.
I also disagree that every minute spent on a computer would be better spent outside eating watermelons. Computers have consolidated and enhanced many things into one box (games/news/history/entertainment/ect.) Having a digital life does not preclude you from having a real one. Really separating the two is unfair, what you do online is only an extension of your un-networked life.
im sorry to say this but its getting more and more proven that facebook is just a fascist service that doesnt allow their users to change their name(!!!!), network, and lately they even want our real phonemumbers to text us a code in order to activate our accounts!!!!
without us(the simple users) they would be NOTHING and its about time to show them our real power and start leaving this fascist site!
please verify my account
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hi can u help me how can i verify my facebook ..tnx
i cant add my friends
I've tried sending the confirmation code to my phone, but I haven't gotten it. Guess my phone doesn't allow that kind of message? I wanted to change my username, but I can't, since my account "isn't verified."
it seems ridiculous to me that you can't even search or find friends using facebook's friend finder..isn't facebook supposed to be a means to meet up with past friends…what a joke i sticking with myspace
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