Hello Shelly.
The reason you were asked to pass this security check is because Facebook
is trying to fight against fake profiles and bots. There might be currently
170 million fake users in Facebook. Bots might have been used in Facebook
to create fake profiles and to get unreal likes and shares. Maybe the
Facebook page from which you were sharing a certain post used such kind of
software. (Just an assumption)
There is an interesting article [1] where it is described how the software
which creates fake Facebook profiles work.
Regards,
Luchmun Sadhveer Sharma (Yudish)
[1]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-parsons/facebooks-war-continues-against-fake-profiles-and-bots_b_6914282.html
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:06 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> Hi Shelly,
>
> At 09:52 11-05-2015, Shelly Hermia Bhujun wrote:
>
>> I was sharing a picture i saw on 9gag page to my facebook profile and i
>> got the following (Please see picture attached). I don't know why i got
>> this. This reminds me of a time where i would download something and i
>> would get 'Please enter the 4 digits below to verify if you're not an
>> Alien' .
>>
>> I always share pictures and videos and it's the first time i got this
>> message. Can somebody please explain why i got this?
>>
>> p.s please be non-technical in your answer.
>>
>
> You were trying to share a link on Facebook. Facebook considered that the
> link might cause a security problem or that the link is not being shared by
> a person [1]. The picture you saw is part of the test to verify whether
> you are a person. The four digit you saw is the same type of the
> verification as above.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
> 1. Computer software can also be used to automatically share links.
>
>
Received on Mon May 11 2015 - 17:31:30 PST