I don’t think it’s about real names. You could be “Caped Crusader” on FB and not much would change in terms of context collapse if you still had your boss, your mom and those guys from the ikebana club in your friends list. You can group your contacts and set custom visibility rules to your posts, but that’s cumbersome. Facebook and the others like them are your public face, the one you show and are comfortable showing in a job interview, to your granma and so on. For everything else, social networks are just not the right tool. There are forums, remember them? And for actual friends, we have Whatsapp groups and a lot of similar alternatives.
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