If you think that enforcing real names induces civility and you use Facebook as an example, your argument is wrong and self-contradictory. Facebook is /proof/

If you think that enforcing real names induces civility and you use Facebook as an example, your argument is wrong and self-contradictory. Facebook is /proof/ that the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory doesn't need anonymity. What the Internet proves about communication is that fuckwaddery (yes, this is a word, my word) is inversely proportional to interface friction. The quicker it is to spill the contents of your mind without the filtration enabled by interface difficulty, the more crap you can put out. Since 90 percent of everything is crap, [Sturgeon] even what you are thinking 90 percent of the time is crap and you're lucky if you manage to only commit the remaining 10 percent without contaminating it with the rest. Interface difficulty enforces thinking about what you commit to discussion. Which is why pen-and-ink letter writing "is an art" and the twitterverse is a cesspool - real names or not. This is not to say that if everything went back to pen-and-paper that there would be no fuckwads. There would simply be fewer of them. Lastly, I never used my real name on Facebook or other social media. Why should I give up what I have every right to do in real life just because it's electronic? People don't care whether I'm using my real name or alias as long as they know who they're talking to. BMO's Revised Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory (Normal person + communication medium) / interface friction = fuckwad And when friction=0, you have a black hole of fuckwaddery. You usually get this when you use alcohol as a lubricant.