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RE: Steemit Account Verification - Verifying Third Party Social Network Accounts and Websites
That reminds me. I forgot the proposal should ask the user to include their SSN.
As I mentioned in another response, I fully anticipated that there are many users like you that don't wish to share this information and they don't have to; however, if steemit's aim is to move beyond the small niche community that it is, features such as this could help.
I personally would have no issues sharing my facebook account as it is pretty much 100% private anyway.
I think verification should be optional and I worry about it being public. Here's why. There are some great people on steemit. But there are also creepy, aggressive, stalkerish people on steemit. For women, in particular, I think there might be some risk in revealing FB pages, websites etc to the entire steemit public. Maybe have the option to make the verifications public to people the individual person select? Like friending on FB. I think your intentions are good and see the benefits. But there are also risks.
Get too much info and the SSN and identity theft would be super easy.