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I don’t know about you but my Twitter feed and tab into Facebook stopped working and then disappeard a long time ago. Now it looks like Posterous here is heading in the same direction. My very last post showed it as coming from an “Unnamed App”, for about three minutes and then updated to “via Posterous”.

Of course, Facebook would probably just chalk it up to their server issues from today. We’ll just have to keep an eye on the future of third party feeds, be it blog, status updates or whatever. With their increased startup acquistions, it wouldn’t surprise me to see them weed out anyone or thing they don’t have total control over. But that’s part of their continued success and if they start compromising that I’m sure it’ll impact them negatively, if not right away, certainly down the line.

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In the process of packing and unpacking several times over the last year, I’ve come across numerous old sketchbooks and other pieces of art I’ve created over the years. This, added to a previous desire to get most of my art online out of a desire for both viewing and archiving sake, led me to finally scanning a bunch of pieces from various sketchbooks. I’ve a bunch of them up on Facebook too, to share with those that haven’t seen any of my work before.

Here’s a few shots of what’s there:

I just tried to log in to check some mail on Facebook and was greeted with this blank screen:

I always love analysis and especially when it comes to personality-like tests involving ones name, hands or other personal artifacts. So I’ve been eyeing up one of the current FB apps/games/quizzes and finally got around to doing one. Here’s the text I wrote for it and a snapshot of the results:

I want to succeed so profoundly it shakes the core of humanity. Or at least myself. I expect great things from those I love and respect and even greater things from myself. There is no room for failure but failing is part of this success. I keep narrowing my focus to nothing, everything, nothing. And repeat. Tomorrow I will try again. And again.

My original Facebook profile was deactivated when I created a second account with my original childhood nickname.

Since I’d switched to going by Jedi (a given nickname) after moving to LA, I wanted a profile in my original given nickname of Jed, so I started the 2nd account. Unfortunately, I overlooked a small but major detail in that Facebook doesn’t allow the same email to be associated with more than one account. Upon creating this account, they disabled my previous account and now won’t let me reactivate it.

This isn’t all surprising to me considering the story going around that Facebook is a government-run effort to collect as much data as they can. Whether or not that’s true is debatable but their actions as evidenced here in my case, uncannily resemble a government-like response. I have literally scores of similar profiles at other sites and never once has anyone ever stated you can’t have more than one account, require that you only open an account with a legal name, or require a valid I.D. to prove you are who you claim to be.

Here’s their first response to my support request; it took them over a week to respond:
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Facebook does not allow users to sign up with certain names that may be fake or associated with fake accounts. While we realize this verification method may prevent some users with legitimate names from initially registering, we feel this policy is currently the best method to prevent against malicious and fake accounts on the site.

We can help you sign up for an account, but we will need additional information. Please send a scanned image or digital picture of a government-issued ID (e.g. driver’s license) to idrequests@facebook.com in order to confirm the accuracy of your name. Also, make sure you black out any personal information that is not needed to verify your identity (e.g. social security number). Keep in mind that we will permanently delete your ID from our servers once your name has been verified.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but you will be unable to sign up until you provide us with a scanned image of a government-issued ID. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation,

Sadie
User Operations
Facebook