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So, you provide your ID to everyone you have a social interaction with? For example, there's someone I've known for about two years and talk to regularly, we k

So, you provide your ID to everyone you have a social interaction with? For example, there's someone I've known for about two years and talk to regularly, we know a fair bit about eachother's lives. I was thinking the other day though and realized, we've never introduced ourselves to to eachother. We've never actually told eachother our names, yet every time we see eachother we talk like old friends. Or there's plenty of parties where i've socially interacted with people without ever knowing or giving a name. For the most part, at least partial anonymity is up to the choice of the participants for in person social interaction, why should the internet be different? It's not like most privately owned public spaces require ID for you to talk to people inside of them. Bars and such I guess being an exception, but that's because they serve liquor and some bars depending on where you are or what event will actually still allow minors in without serving them, so they could technically interact. My first concert was at an all ages show in a bar as a teenager.

Barrin92 8y ago
>For the most part, at least partial anonymity is up to the choice of the participants for in person social interaction, why should the internet be different? the internet isn't different. But Facebook isn't 'the internet', Facebook is a commercial public platform. I fully expect to not be anonymous when I engage with any commercial platform,be it online or offline, the only places where I expect full anonymity are places I own, where no liability or implications for third parties exist. You can have those on the internet, but they're not commercial, centralised social media websites where people, with their posts, face the public. Facebook in this example is exactly like a bar or a townsquare, and not like my private home.

Barrin92 8y ago

>For the most part, at least partial anonymity is up to the choice of the participants for in person social interaction, why should the internet be different? the internet isn't different. But Facebook isn't 'the internet', Facebook is a commercial public platform. I fully expect to not be anonymous when I engage with any commercial platform,be it online or offline, the only places where I expect full anonymity are places I own, where no liability or implications for third parties exist. You can have those on the internet, but they're not commercial, centralised social media websites where people, with their posts, face the public. Facebook in this example is exactly like a bar or a townsquare, and not like my private home.