This person seems to be confusing anonymity with lack of accountability. Back in the day, when people didn't use their real names on websites, communities relie

This person seems to be confusing anonymity with lack of accountability. Back in the day, when people didn't use their real names on websites, communities relied on accountability to maintain good behavior. Some ways this is done are through reputation systems or moderation tools. Your real name wasn't known, but if you wanted to participate in any community you had to follow the community rules. Anonymity wasn't a hindrance to good behavior. Facebook and other social networks don't usually have much accountability built in. You can be an ass on Facebook and not face any consequences. So Facebook actually only maintains "good behavior" by allowing closed communities (All my friends are well behaved, so all I see on Facebook is good behavior. If I behave badly my friends will react negatively, etc.). If you were able to look outside your own well-behaved bubble, you would see that real-name social networks aren't able to enforce good social norms. They just reinforce the social norms that are already dominant in your friend group. An issue with the forced-identity aspect of social networks is you are only allowed one identity. You are discouraged from activities/communities/discussions that are sensitive or embarrassing or not accepted by your dominant peer group. Not to say there is nothing good about these real-name social networks. They would have never reached such a broad cross-section of people with everyone registering via pseudo-anonymous handles. Using real names makes things more palatable and manageable for non-technically minded people.