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> I'm not constantly bombarded by fake friend requests like I am on Twitter, Skype, or any other platform which allows random usernames. I don't see how "real

by kruczek 11y ago

> I'm not constantly bombarded by fake friend requests like I am on Twitter, Skype, or any other platform which allows random usernames. I don't see how "real name policy" would prevent that. What's stopping people from creating fake accounts with real-looking names? > I can easily find the people in my life without having to go through an awkward song and dance. But maybe some of those people don't want you to find them? And if they will want you to find them, they will let you know of their username. > Facebook is a platform designed for digitizing your real world relationships, not for accumulating thousands of "followers." Yea, nice, but that is irrelevant to the real name policy. I can very well digitize my real world relationships without using my real world name. People that know me in real world, know me on Facebook by my nick, even if I don't use that nick in real world.

morgante 11y ago
> And if they will want you to find them, they will let you know of their username. That's not true in practice. I'm friends with tons of people in my school who are basically passing acquaintances. We don't know each other well enough that asking for a username would be normal, but it's helpful to have a readily available channel to ask things like "hey, what was the assignment for econ?" Likewise, I am actually "following" some of my real world friends on Twitter. But it's always a song and dance to remember what their username is when I want to write to them. Your arguments seem to be based in a theoretical version of how the world works, not how modern social relationships actually function.
- kruczek 11y ago
  > That's not true in practice. Well, looks like your practice differs from mine then. Whenever I had to cooperate with someone, I'd ask them about their e-mail, username or any other form of contact, so that I would have a "readily available channel", as you say. I don't see how asking for a username would not be normal; to me it's as much normal as asking for a name. > But it's always a song and dance to remember what their username is when I want to write to them. I don't use Twitter, but there are many places where lists of known people are kept - e.g. contacts on my phone or known e-mail addresses; and somehow in neither of such places I have trouble finding the right people; it is a feature of such lists to let me tag specific usernames (be it phone numbers or e-mails, to stick to these examples) with descriptions which sound familiar to me. These descriptions don't necessarily need to be real world names either - often it is easier for me to tag someone with a word describing shared interest or place I know them from, rather than using their real name, because often their last name would look completely unfamiliar to me anyway. > Your arguments seem to be based in a theoretical version of how the world works, not how modern social relationships actually function. On the other hand your arguments seem to be based on the narrow view of how your social relationships function, completely ignoring much wider spectrum of "modern social relationships"..

by kruczek 11y ago

morgante 11y ago

> And if they will want you to find them, they will let you know of their username. That's not true in practice. I'm friends with tons of people in my school who are basically passing acquaintances. We don't know each other well enough that asking for a username would be normal, but it's helpful to have a readily available channel to ask things like "hey, what was the assignment for econ?" Likewise, I am actually "following" some of my real world friends on Twitter. But it's always a song and dance to remember what their username is when I want to write to them. Your arguments seem to be based in a theoretical version of how the world works, not how modern social relationships actually function.

kruczek 11y ago
> That's not true in practice. Well, looks like your practice differs from mine then. Whenever I had to cooperate with someone, I'd ask them about their e-mail, username or any other form of contact, so that I would have a "readily available channel", as you say. I don't see how asking for a username would not be normal; to me it's as much normal as asking for a name. > But it's always a song and dance to remember what their username is when I want to write to them. I don't use Twitter, but there are many places where lists of known people are kept - e.g. contacts on my phone or known e-mail addresses; and somehow in neither of such places I have trouble finding the right people; it is a feature of such lists to let me tag specific usernames (be it phone numbers or e-mails, to stick to these examples) with descriptions which sound familiar to me. These descriptions don't necessarily need to be real world names either - often it is easier for me to tag someone with a word describing shared interest or place I know them from, rather than using their real name, because often their last name would look completely unfamiliar to me anyway. > Your arguments seem to be based in a theoretical version of how the world works, not how modern social relationships actually function. On the other hand your arguments seem to be based on the narrow view of how your social relationships function, completely ignoring much wider spectrum of "modern social relationships"..