Facebook: Dumb and Dumber


It’s 5:30 pm left coast time on Friday, Dec. 17.  I decided to check in with Facebook to see what’s new.  Imagine my surprise when I was asked a bunch of questions — ending with the ubiquitous “security question.”  Somehow, Facebook managed to select questions that represent a new low in obscurity.  Here are your choices.  (Keep reading, it gets worse.)

Facebook Security Question Choices

Facebook Security Question Choices

I finally figured out that I knew where my mom had been born.  I typed the four-letter name of the small Kansas town.  Then I saw this (click the image to see what I’m talking about):

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Facebook Says My Mom's Hometown Has an Illegal Name

Facebook Says My Mom's Hometown Has an Illegal Name

Not only is the screen ugly (to put it mildly), but … my mom’s birthplace is illegal according to Facebook.  Apparently cities and towns with fewer than five letters in their names are verboten.  (I could have gone for my first pet’s name, but that only has three characters.)

This company is valued at how much?  Right now, it looks to me like any non-negative value is way too high.


About Tony Lima

Tony Lima has been working with technology, economic modeling, forecasting, and market research for 40 years. His background makes him uniquely qualified to navigate this varied landscape. Begin with his education: B.S. in chemical engineering from M.I.T. , M.B.A. from Harvard, Ph.D. in economics from Stanford. His day job was professor of economics at California State University, East Bay. He retired in 2016 to devote his time to consulting and writing. But he has found time to: write (eight books and over 100 articles ranging from wine economics to detailed analyses of meta-language code generators) consult with companies ranging from Microsoft to CEDEX keep his expertise up-to-date, constantly reading and sorting through the avalanche of information available daily maintain three blogs: Wine Research, Wine Economics, and Economic Policy Local policy analysis: Los Altos Politico.com

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