It's easy to generate real-looking names, there are libraries to do so. Requiring real-looking names therefore doesn't prevent bots. If you're not being bomba

It's easy to generate real-looking names, there are libraries to do so. Requiring real-looking names therefore doesn't prevent bots. If you're not being bombarded with friend requests by bots on Facebook that just means none of your friends have accepted a friend request from a profile with a picture of a young asian woman as its avatar (and an authentic-sounding name) yet... You can validate your name on Twitter if you want to. You don't have to though. Access to Facebook isn't a right (although in countries where it is the only net presence that may become more of an issue). But Facebook's mistakes (and Real Names policies are a mistake) affect a lot of people, all of whom have the valid use case of "using Facebook as a platform". So the argument is you're creating a false dichotomy between using Facebook to get "5000 followers" and wanting to use Facebook under your legal, European-sounding, name. The valid use case you're missing is using Facebook under the name you generally go by without this being a problem if it's not a name Facebook thinks is valid. Even I go under an informal version of my legal name - it's not the name on my birth certificate, passport, or bank account. So it's not my Real Name. And I'm not any of the groups that get hit hardest by this.