Sharon Stone in Madrid - Miguel Cordoba / SIPA

  • This is the very last fail of 2019: Sharon Stone has had his Bumble account blocked because users had mistaken it for a fake.
  • How do dating sites deal with celebrities who come to seek love (or others) on their application?
  • Between excessive moderation and the promise of “normal” treatment, not everyday easy to be a star on these networks.

Wishing you a happy new year 2020, we take this opportunity to tell you that we hope that 2019 has ended in a better way than forSharon Stone. The star saw Bumble, a dating app, blocked his profile. The reason mentioned? The dating site thought it had to do with a fake and identity theft. How to manage the famous personalities who came to seek love on the Web rather than on the steps of the Cannes festival palace?

I went on the @bumble dating sight and they closed my account. 👁👁
Some users reported that it couldn't possibly be me!
Hey @bumble, is being me exclusionary? 🤷🏼♀️
Don't shut me out of the hive 🐝

- Sharon Stone (@sharonstone) December 30, 2019

"We manage them like everyone else," says Jérôme Rivière, vice-president of marketing at Meetic Groupe France. The reasoning is simple: if the promise is that everyone can find love, it is better not to make differences in treatment.

Love, glory and certified account

He admits, Sharon Stone's fail could have happened on their site too, where "we are chasing fake and identity theft". Hannah Landau, public relations consultant at Tinder , explains that since 2015 the application has offered the possibility of checking the profiles of celebrities and public figures. The officially certified accounts can be identified by a blue badge. Zeal for moderation or certification label, the logic is the same: a dating site rests on a pivot: the person opposite is real and sincere. No question therefore of skimping on the verification, according to them.

The process will be even more complex for Sharon Stone than for you and me. On Meetic as on Bumble, his photo could actually be taken for a fake and be invalidated. "When a person creates a profile, their account is verified in fifteen minutes by a team of moderators who watch seven days a week and 24 hours a day," says Jérôme Rivière.

Will Sharon Stone find love?

The photo was notably combed through: no nudity, no trash, a visible face ... but also an image search to see if the photography was not stolen elsewhere. Within the framework of Bumble, it is not even moderators but simple users who reported the account, "too good to be true", and imagining a fake.

So the Basic Instinct actress can never find Prince Charming on the Internet? Rest assured, nothing is lost for her. Meetic explains the room for maneuver for the star. When a photo is invalidated, the reason for this refusal is indicated to the user. In this case, Sharon Stone must have known that she was taken for another. All that's left is to contact the moderation team and prove their identity, especially with official papers. Nothing very complicated in short.

Natural love

As funny as this story may seem, it questions: why are we so surprised to see a star on a dating app? In our defense, these sites are stingy with words about celebrities. Jérôme Rivière explains: “We want to offer love to as many everyday people as possible, if we have stars we won't communicate on it, that would break the idea of ​​everyday meetings. We don't sell the exceptional, but the real. As for Hannah Landau, she soberly indicates that Tinder simply does not communicate about the stars present on its application, except in the event of a partnership.

If Sharon Stone is too depressed at not being able to mix with ordinary mortals, she can always console herself by going to Raya, a dating site reserved for celebrities. And too bad for lovers of love story transcending social classes, romanticism is so 2019 anyway.

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