On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Elena ``of Valhalla'' < elena.valha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-05-11 at 08:41:48 +0100, Lester Caine wrote: > > On 11/05/15 02:07, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > > > I expect to see Xxzme back under a different username soon. > > This is the real problem. > > While it is now common for people to hide behind anonymous nicknames on > > the internet, it is certainly not courteous these days since it does > > prevent proper interaction on what IS a social platform. There are > > places where hiding ones identity is necessary, but here is not one? > > forcing real looking names does not solve this issue: creating a fake > account under a name like "John Smith" is just as easy as creating one > under a nickname, and even less likely to be identified. > Plus there's issues with some names I'm personally aware of, such as Mono (a mononym, her parents were a bit "new age" to say the least). Leaping Deer (I believe this to be a last name since police uniforms usually only include that) Blackbear (the first name of one of my friends, and one that causes him no end of grief since a lot of places will fill in his middle name as his first name, assuming that Blackbear is a nickname). Requiring verification through official documents is going to bring > a number of logistic and legal problems (and won't stop motivated people > from using fake documents). > On the other hand, this tends to give problems to people with unusual > names, > who see their real name refused by the system, and prevents people with > long term pseudonimes to subscribe to the system with the name they > are actually known as. > See also problems with Native American or transgendered populations when dealing with Facebook, and compare to the furry fandom (whose members often have a pseudonymous identity separate from their "work" identity to sidestep drama resulting from common misconceptions about the community). Granted, my circle of friends has an unusually high number of people in both of those affected communities, so my sample is definitely disproportionately affected and is making Facebook an increasingly unpopular network among people I know (now if I could just get a few stragglers off that network to someplace that isn't such a universal pain in the ass for everyone, I wouldn't have a reason to have a token account hanging around).
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