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Facebook don't really embrace the idea of an alternate persona, in fact it's almost antithetical to them. Interesting to watch this play out.

koheripbal 6y ago
It's still trivially easy to create an account on Facebook without using your real name. The first LPT I taught me daughters when they started using the internet is that on the internet, you are a super hero - no one should know your real name.
- Teknoman117 6y ago
  While I do wholeheartedly agree that your online self should be an alternate, detached persona, for someone underaged, falsifying information on an account on FB is against their TOS. Their entire business model is selling data about the "real you." I don't have children, and as a 20-something I know the struggle and seeming impossibility of avoiding FB products, but I try to avoid pouring my whole identity into them. It's rough when the social culture is rapidly shifting to "unless you put everything online you're not worth my time" or makes you one of those "privacy nuts."
  - koheripbal 6y ago
    Reinforcing the need to respect a company's ToS is not high on the list of principles I'm instilling in my children.
    - Already__Taken 6y ago
      Sure I completely agree but these streaming personas are a business to some people and you might wake up one morning to the Facebook ban-hammer. Repeating the mistakes od depending on 3rd party services for a business model.
- arkitaip 6y ago
  It's also very hard to keep that account anonymous due to the crazy about of data gathering Facebook does and the ways it used that data to recommend you to new "friends" and what not.
- r00fus 6y ago
  Your actual valuable personal data is your graph connections, not your node. Once you start connecting, you unmask yourself quite easily - many have tried creating spare accounts (even with VPNs and separate browser contexts) and have quite quickly been shown their exist friend set as "recommendations by FB".
namrog84 6y ago
I normally use twitch but with fb mixer news I decided to take a look into fb gaming. I was able to create a page named "namrog84" and then comment on someone's stream and all they saw was namrog84. I'm sure it might be possible to figure out which facebook real name made and owns that page. But at face value I was able to stream and comment under my alternate persona. namrog84. Without having to make a new Facebook account. They have a drop down in streamer chat if you want to use your real name or a name of a page. With that said, I'm very hesitant of fb gaming streaming and this is my first ever time really looking at it.
- r00fus 6y ago
  Pseudonyms only work if you trust your cover won't be blown in a way that compromises your investment/safety. Is Facebook trustworthy enough for that?
alasdair_ 6y ago
I think the idea is that by using people's real names, the comments and community is slightly less toxic. I have no idea if this is true or not.
- fastball 6y ago
  From what I've of FB comments, this is almost entirely untrue. Look at all the dumb things people say with their real names on Twitter as well. Discussion is civil when you actually cultivate civil discussion, not when you force people to use real names.

koheripbal 6y ago

It's still trivially easy to create an account on Facebook without using your real name. The first LPT I taught me daughters when they started using the internet is that on the internet, you are a super hero - no one should know your real name.

Teknoman117 6y ago
While I do wholeheartedly agree that your online self should be an alternate, detached persona, for someone underaged, falsifying information on an account on FB is against their TOS. Their entire business model is selling data about the "real you." I don't have children, and as a 20-something I know the struggle and seeming impossibility of avoiding FB products, but I try to avoid pouring my whole identity into them. It's rough when the social culture is rapidly shifting to "unless you put everything online you're not worth my time" or makes you one of those "privacy nuts."
- koheripbal 6y ago
  Reinforcing the need to respect a company's ToS is not high on the list of principles I'm instilling in my children.
  - Already__Taken 6y ago
    Sure I completely agree but these streaming personas are a business to some people and you might wake up one morning to the Facebook ban-hammer. Repeating the mistakes od depending on 3rd party services for a business model.
arkitaip 6y ago
It's also very hard to keep that account anonymous due to the crazy about of data gathering Facebook does and the ways it used that data to recommend you to new "friends" and what not.
r00fus 6y ago
Your actual valuable personal data is your graph connections, not your node. Once you start connecting, you unmask yourself quite easily - many have tried creating spare accounts (even with VPNs and separate browser contexts) and have quite quickly been shown their exist friend set as "recommendations by FB".

namrog84 6y ago

I normally use twitch but with fb mixer news I decided to take a look into fb gaming. I was able to create a page named "namrog84" and then comment on someone's stream and all they saw was namrog84. I'm sure it might be possible to figure out which facebook real name made and owns that page. But at face value I was able to stream and comment under my alternate persona. namrog84. Without having to make a new Facebook account. They have a drop down in streamer chat if you want to use your real name or a name of a page. With that said, I'm very hesitant of fb gaming streaming and this is my first ever time really looking at it.

r00fus 6y ago
Pseudonyms only work if you trust your cover won't be blown in a way that compromises your investment/safety. Is Facebook trustworthy enough for that?

alasdair_ 6y ago

I think the idea is that by using people's real names, the comments and community is slightly less toxic. I have no idea if this is true or not.

fastball 6y ago
From what I've of FB comments, this is almost entirely untrue. Look at all the dumb things people say with their real names on Twitter as well. Discussion is civil when you actually cultivate civil discussion, not when you force people to use real names.