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Real names no longer deter on Facebook, not even when it's criminal. If you look on Facebook marketplace you will immediately find dozens of scams from some fab
by devwastaken 3y ago
Real names no longer deter on Facebook, not even when it's criminal. If you look on Facebook marketplace you will immediately find dozens of scams from some fabricated accounts and some real. People are out there using their real accounts to sell stolen tech, or not delivering on a purchase when someone uses Venmo, Cash app, etc. People are even so desperate that they think they can get away when facebooks purchase protection or PayPal purchase protection is used - and they're right. They don't care that their account becomes negative when the transaction reverses. By that time they've gotten their money and it will be 5-7 years before the statute of limitations forces the corps to take it to claims. While this may be criminal the scale of it is so large and policing unfit that there is little to no enforcement of what is high dollar theft. The protection system also means that the individual making the purchase isn't "harmed" in that dollar value so there is no civil claim and a criminal one would have to be persued by the corp.
Initially perhaps real names created some self moderation, but as time has moved on people figured out there's no actual consequences to being dishonest, morally bankrupt, or otherwise promoting of poor qualities. This is normalized over time to a point where it has likely reinforced those attributes - not reduced them.
- NikkiA 3y ago> no longer I'm not sure they ever did. While I remember a few 'smarter' people that used false 'real-sounding' names to be abusive, other stupider people have been doing abusive and illegal activity on facebook since day 1, there just wasn't ever any significant consequences.