PHILADELPHIA, PA — Some local rabbis noticed something strange when they signed onto their Facebook accounts Friday morning — their title was gone from their profile.
Just in time for Shabbat they've taken the “Rabbi” away from the social network.
Taking the “Rabbi” Out of Facebook
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Some local rabbis noticed something strange when they signed onto their Facebook accounts Friday morning — their title was gone from their profile.
Just in time for Shabbat they’ve taken the “Rabbi” away from the social network.
Chabad rabbis throughout the country began to notice the title “Rabbi” being dropped from their accounts on Thursday night, according to a source.
A simple search for the term Rabbi on Facebook reveals a slew of local Philadelphia rabbis who no longer have the title “Rabbi” at the beginning of their Facebook names.
NBCPhiladelphia.com tracked down the people over at Facebook for a response to this supposed dropping of names.
“We do have systems in place that block people from using certain words and titles in their names,” said Simon Axten with Facebook.com.
“This is to prevent abuse and help maintain our real name culture, which drives accountability on the site,” said Axten.
To be fair to the Facebook people a search for Reverend and Pastor also yields few results for the Philadelphia area.
These systems have been around for a while, according to Axten.
“To be clear, people who try to sign up with a name that contains a word on our blacklist, or who try to change their name to one that includes one of these words, will be blocked. They can then write to us if they feel their use of the word is legitimate,” said Axten.
A blacklist, what names are included on the blacklist?
“The list is quite long and includes words and names commonly associated with fake accounts. You can’t sign up as ‘Barack Obama’ or ‘Britney Spears,’ for example,” said Axten.
Facebook encourages anyone who wishes to use a legitimate title on Facebook should contact the Facebook team. “Our User Operations team will investigate and honor the request where appropriate,” said Axten..
Rabbi
from what i understand its not being taken out its just being censored
Nonsense
All of my friends that had Rabbi in their name still have it there.
anti facebook
“ RABBI’S” should not be using facebook.
that would solve the problem.
mush
weird………
ch mom
thats annoying. making a profile with “rabbi” at the beginning isn’t exactly the same thing as making a profile for britney spears
Aaron Calvo
Being a rabbi on facebook can be a very good way of attracting people to your activities. A good way to show your previous events. Don’t bash everything that isn’t in the book b/c it may have bad properties. There are plenty of good properties to go arround on facebook.
Just by having a facebook account a brother of mine how I havn’t seen or heard from in 16 years found me. Are you still sure facebook is such a horrible thing?
Think again!!!!
Next time you feel. Like you need to attack someone or something on this site feel free to use your real name. Or maybe you are on of those people who preches no Internet since that can be a horrible thing altogether so that is why youcan’t put your real name down.
To the owner of this site …. You should force a sign up to post here with the signup being linked to a personal email address that must be verified … This way people will need to have some sort of accountability on this site.
The comments section of this site has turned into a real mess and a very sad feature.
lol
i cant stop laughing at how ch.info put it –
Some local rabbis noticed something strange when they ,SIGNED INTO THEIR FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS Friday morning
thats so funny – dont RABBIS have other things to do? if theyre truly rabbis, dont go on facebook and dont search for honorary titles. if you arent, bug off!
rabbis, with your free time, do things leilui nishmas the kedoshim of mumbai., dont go on facebook
shaliach
‘Anti Facebook’ I’m betting you’re not on shlichus or you simpley don’t understand the intrinsic value of instant networking.
mt
to shaliach:
i understand your comment, but i dont lknow how appropiate facebook is for those purposes. there are other things online that are ok for that but facebook is stam, try to put kedushah there, kol hakavod to you
Yitzy
Facebook is a networking tool and Shluchim (mainly on Campus) need to network with the people they are to interact with.
It’s only a waste of time to those who use it as such.
shliach
as a shliach i have facebook and go on it once a week, on friday morning, to ensure people come to shul on shabbos. a lot of my balebatim don’t go on their emails but will be on facebook, so please don’t bash.
af
i say its a kind of klipas noga
there are goyim who use it for not tznius things, its our job to make it heilig
but its not like facebook is a kind of ‘irreligious jew’ who needs to become a ‘baal teshuva’, just use it for torah things