How to Verify Your Social Media Identity
It has always been quite a shaky ground verifying your online identity and proving you look exactly like you want people believe you do. It is so easy to find a less popular celebrity photo, save it at your computer and then upload each time you register a new social media profile.
With this problem being so well-spread, I wonder why service verifying and securing your online identity are not at all plenty. Here’s only one (nice) example: Checked Profile.
The service works as follows:
- The site users can upload a profile picture of themselves;
- The unique code is generated for it;
- The user writes his code on a sheet of paper and takes a picture of himself holding the page with his identifier;
- The service expert profile checker (the say this is done via Amazon Turk by the way) verifies that the person in both images is the same;
- You get your profile photo back with the unique stamp featuring your code (You can now use this photo as your profile picture anywhere you want).
You will enjoy their pricing page by the way:
Creating a new account and the first profile photograph at CheckedProfile.com is completely free for women and children and $1.99 for men. That does not sound right I hear you men say. Well the reason for this is simple and a little like car insurance. The fact is that women and children have far less prevalence of identity fraud compared to men, so we have to charge a little more for men. Additional photographs are $0.99 for everyone. Priority verification (verification in one hour or less) is $0.99 per photograph. E-mail address verification is free for everyone.
Validize is another similar service which is more targeted to website owners: you can verify your personal info and publish the seals on your site or blog. Sadly, there’s not much information available on the site regarding how exactly it works.
Yet another similar service: HonestyOnline that seems to verify your identity with the help of a quiz.
