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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 intern
by 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 agoWhile 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 agoReinforcing 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 agoSure 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 agoIt'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 agoYour 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".