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Meanwhile, my Facebook profile is entirely faked, with clearly false data and the name of a literary character; I've never been questioned about it once. Beyond
by geoffpado 12y ago
Meanwhile, my Facebook profile is entirely faked, with clearly false data and the name of a literary character; I've never been questioned about it once. Beyond an attempt to combat impersonation (which is likely going to be impersonation of real names anyway), where do Facebook or their users even benefit from the real name policy?
It seems like a lot of hassle to try and automatically enforce an obviously difficult problem with little upside. Human behaviors, try as we might, are never going to conform to rigorous standards. :)
- Cthulhu_ 12y agoRacking my brain, I can think of two reasons: preventing anonymity (people are less of a dick on the internet when their real name is there), and findability (finding your friends while not knowing their internet moniker is hard)
- bigiain 12y agoPlus, of course, Facebook's actual "users" - by which I mean their paying customers - like to be able to tie Facebook's product (yeah, you and me and your mom) to their credit card names reliably...
- darklajid 12y agoI'd say the first one isn't proven (Oh great old one) and the second one is moot - if you want to connect with friends, exchange the name via side channel or use the 'friend of friend' links to connect?