I have yet to find out the deeper reason for this. One of the main reasons of course is to prove your identity and bolster it with a digital doppelganger, but t

I have yet to find out the deeper reason for this. One of the main reasons of course is to prove your identity and bolster it with a digital doppelganger, but this is hard to do for those who maintain pseudonyms and tweet / post under assumed names. A lot of accounts on Twitter are assumed names. Facebook, not so much, as per their real names policy.