Den mandag den 31. august 2015 kl. 15.34.30 UTC+2 skrev Hugo Roy: > ↪ 2015-08-31 Mon 10:41, [email protected] <[email protected]>: > I do not think that allowing pseudonyms would have really lower the > success of Facebook in terms of size. Why do I think that? Because in > spite of the policy to exclude pseudonyms, a lot of users on Facebook > do not use their real name anyway.
I think there's a big difference between the purpose. The vast majority of the people I know that don't use their real name, just use a nickname, but their friends still know who they really are. If pseudonyms were the norm, then I'd find it likely that you'd lose the knowledge of whether each profile represented one person (or e.g. if people used multiple identities) and whether that person is actually someone you really know or not. There's a big difference between social interaction on the Internet, with strangers, or with people you also know in real life. (Presumably due to missing body language, vocal tone etc.) And since Facebook was made famous because it was exclusively for students who could confirm their identity, it has always been about the personal identity. Somewhat like LinkedIn, but for spare time. Now there's a lot of other things there, since the commercial industry really took part in it, but I for one can by no means presume that Facebook would stand strong, if pseudonyms were explicitly allowed. At least not in the long run. > With Facebook, anyone can easily publish posts without having to > configure a server or a blog. It's very easy and it has a massive > size. By “this” I meant “publishing on the Web for individuals”, which > is what I believe Facebook is mainly (in terms of what it's used for > by the majority of users). But twitter and reddit are also very large platforms that can do this, right? They both allow pseudonyms. > > > So I guess, I just don't understand why someone would want to be anonymous > > on a platform, that is mostly useful, because you're not anonymous. > > An important distinction to make: this is not about anonymity. Someone > with a pseudonym is not anonymous. Anonymous means "no name" at all > whereas, with a pseudonym, you have a name; it's just not the same name > that the State has registered for you. Sure, but the distinction is mostly important for those with the power to investigate the background of a certain online identity. To must people, it's just an alias - like wearing a mask at a masquerade. You can still be personal with a mask on, but never quite as personal (showing strong responsibility for your actions). And you can also be very impersonal and rude, and easily get away with it, because you're just another random identity. > > There are a lot of people who are actually known under a pseudonym > more than under their “civil name”. I know. Especially Internet celebrities. Captain Sparkles is one example. But to my understanding, it's not against the terms to have a profile that represents an online identity - especially not if it's famous. At least, I've seen many examples of this - and Captain Sparklez is one of those. I don't understand why it's explicitly important to have a separate identity all across the Internet though? I know many of my (older) family members wouldn't use Facebook if it wasn't personal. It's not that I agree with everything the Facebook culture does by the way - I just wondered why this pseudonym part was shown as definitely negative. > But maybe this rule is not up to date, can you check the terms today > regarding what users are allowed to do with pseudonyms? Sorry, I'm not great at that. It's not that important to me either. I'm sure it is to someone, who'll then look at it. Thanks for the discussion. -- tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
