Comments on: Facebook and Gender Performance http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/02/21/facebook-and-gender-performance/ We live in a cyborg society. Technology has infiltrated the most fundamental aspects of our lives: social organization, the body, even our self-concepts. This blog chronicles our new, augmented reality. Thu, 09 Apr 2015 21:16:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hooray, Facebook thinks I’m a real person » Cyborgology http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/02/21/facebook-and-gender-performance/#comment-57019 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:56:55 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=18098#comment-57019 […] it possible to self-identify and the ways in which gender is performed – by Jenny Davis and Robin James. But this is also something that’s very personal for me, and not just in terms of my […]

]]> By: Ben http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/02/21/facebook-and-gender-performance/#comment-56315 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 19:07:36 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=18098#comment-56315 Are you sure they don’t just ban everyone who sends lots of friend requests?

]]> By: Kit Kendrick http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/02/21/facebook-and-gender-performance/#comment-56312 Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:25:16 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=18098#comment-56312 “So, Facebook is set to suspend the accounts of non-white and/or non-Western men when they try to friend too many women–especially, it seems, white women.”

Do we know this is true? I mean, not that Facebook suspends folks for spamming friend requests to strangers, but that it’s specifically banning nonwhite men friending white women? I know of marketing people who have gotten suspensions for mass friending as well. It seems to have to do with the number of requests sent and the percentage of users who reject the requests.

It’s certainly possible that nonwhite men are getting a higher rejection rate but that’s not the same as Facebook having a race/gender-based trigger on the banning system.

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