nowadays, fake accounts on social media have been increasing due to the easy access that people have on creating profile profiles. This is a notable issue since the users can lie about their personal information or just keep it as anonymous before sharing fake or detrimental information.
To begin with, renowned applications of social media are used by children, teenagers and adults without a know identity. For this reason, phenomenon, such as cyberbuying have been clearly increase since people are not afraid of sharing mediocre information which cause depression or even death of innocent people. For instance, in some schools, bullies create a fake account to post terrible information about classmates making them suffer.
A viable solution for this unsafe situation is to add a verification method on social platforms, which present some requirements before allowing people to start using the application. For instance, Linkedin has recently add an identification process where people must upload a picture of their identity card before getting access to the platform.
To conclude, due to the terrible use that some people give to social media platforms it is fundamental to incorporate a brief section of people’s personal information as a requirement to be able to use the application.