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do your friends call you xly or just x? apart from facebook (which cleverly leveraged existing relationships to create a culture where 'real' names were expect
by querulous 15y ago
do your friends call you xly or just x?
apart from facebook (which cleverly leveraged existing relationships to create a culture where 'real' names were expected) virtually every single internet community is comprised of people operating under pseudonyms. i'd say the subgroup of people who prefer pseudo-names is the larger population.
- Xlythe 15y agoFacebook is the model they had in mind when building Google+. The default circles were “Friends”, “Family”, “Acquaintances”, “Following”. The main method of recommendation was through your most contacted gmail contacts, a private form of communication. Discovery isn't structured like a forum, sorted by topics of interest. Instead, posts are limited in scope by circles, and organized by poster. (There is the stream, but that's built from people you've personally added) They wanted a product that took your social life online. To that end, they tried to attract those kinds of people. The majority of sites with pseudonyms are open forums or comment boards. Most of the people you meet there you've never met offline. You can't offer people like that photo-tagging software or groups to set up real-life meets. To chadmalik and gurkendoktor: Both of you are right. There are justifications for concern over privacy and I think Google went too far in enforcing its policy.