A couple of weeks ago Joshua LeBlanc
\nnoticed that the title Fr. was
\nbeing removed on Facebook for his priest friends. It soon
\nturned out that not only Fr. was being removed but Sr. also.
\n Though Rev. and Dr. were not be automatically removed from
\nthe names used in profiles.<\/p>\n
Joshua started a Facebook group called There has been various replies We appreciate your feedback. However, Conversely, if we allowed users to sign up with prefixes such as Fr., The irony is that the reply was given to a A couple of weeks ago Joshua LeBlanc noticed that the title Fr. was being removed on Facebook for his priest friends. It soon turned out that not only Fr. was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nnames!<\/a> which as of this post has 1,160 members.<\/p>\n
\nfrom
\nFacebook as to why this is being done, but the replies are varied and
\nnot very consistent. One person got back the reply.<\/p>\n
\nFacebook requires users to sign
\nup using their real names. We feel this is necessary to preserve the
\nintegrity of the site.<\/p>\n
\nDr., Crpl., etc., there would be no way of verifying that these users
\nwere indeed members of the Catholic Church, or doctors, or actual
\nCorporals in the armed forces.<\/p>\n
\nFacebook user who had added Rdr. to the front of his name. As
\nfor the concern for real identities, Joshua was able to easily create a
\nFacebook
\nproblems. Searching on Facebook I was able to easily find
\ntons of people whose Facebook name started with Dr. and only a couple
\nthat started with Fr. Some priests and religious are using
\nFr. or Sr. just before their first name withoug using a space to get
\naround this. But there is a question as to whether Facebook
\nhas backed off doing this and that some have been able to put their
\ntitles back again since I see Fr. now before the names of some priests in my friends section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"