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Or just have a mostly unused real-name account that you use for contacting your friends, when you can't reach them otherwise. Why even have a fake facebook acc

Or just have a mostly unused real-name account that you use for contacting your friends, when you can't reach them otherwise. Why even have a fake facebook account? Facebook will know it's you. The government will too. If you don't want the whole world to be privy to what you post, then why even use Facebook? Just post your green frogs and political opinions on forums and websites that do not base their revenue around tracking you 24/7.

mirimir 10y ago
Yes. Unless you have a reason to need other Facebook accounts. To get anonymous logins on other sites. Or whatever.
- dagenleg 10y ago
  I think anonymous logins and Facebook accounts just do not combine very well.
  - mirimir 10y ago
    No, they don't. But there are use cases where it's worth it.
anigbrowl 10y ago
You're saying that the network effect benefits of Facebook (making new friends or staying in contact with existing ones) are exactly equal to the costs (loss of privacy). They're not; FB chooses what that cost:benefit ratio is by how they set their terms of service and (naturally) puts its economic advantage first. Competitors can't deliver the same network effects as FB so the benefits they can offer are very limited by comparison. that, in a nutshell, s why we could really use a good social networking protocol rather than a platform. Platforms are like land, land has landlords, and landlords want rents.