because only a sociopath interacts with their boss, their kids, and their spouse in the same way. Speaking of which…
Mark Zuckerberg (whose commitment to his own privacy is unchecked in its brutality) has frequently dressed up his business-need for Facebook users to have a single identity in halfassed moral philosophy
You missed a phrase there, Cory. Fixed it for you.
Yeah I have a friend from another area who has a name like that. She kept having to show her drivers license to them repeatedly and still got shut down more than once. I probably shouldn’t have said “realistic” so much as “believable for the AI and passersby.”
You’re not old until your kids have teenagers.
Sigh.
All the hotties are 40+ a few!
This is the exact reason I stopped using or even visiting Facebook a few years ago. Kept getting friend requests (and grudgingly accepted them) from people from all the varied aspects of my life and it wasn’t long before I became self-conscious about posts and comments. Screw that.
Good to know.
You’re old when you let yourself start feeling old. For example, i’ve been ancient since before i was in my teens.
Quite a few years back the company I was working for moved their email to Google Apps, which included Google+. For the next 2 years or so Google was very insistent that I knew this other James Morgan (my personal account) and I should connect with him. There was no good way to tell Google that I wanted to keep my personal account and work accounts and separate things. Even though I didn’t ever ‘circle’ my other account it would suggest my personal account to my co-workers on their work accounts. It became a real pain to every few weeks deny a request and send a polite note to a friend that I didn’t want to connect my personal account to a work owned account.
Well said! 
FTFY! 
What a fascinating idea! 
And now you can make a statement by deleting the account!
I don’t remember the specifics. If it was serious I would, so don’t beat yourself up 
Nah, they were/are paranoid kooks, it’s just that they happened to be right about that particular detail. They were plenty wrong about lots of other stupid shit though.
I don’t think that “Social media companies want their users to use their real names because it makes it easier to advertise to them.”. TV and newspaper adds never required to know your name. Google and doubleclic do not know your name.
Also: some social media accounts do not have a real name policy.
When social media wants to know your name, the reason is that they want users social interactions to be controlled by their real-life friends. They want the mob to police the users. Social media is about social status and they want your group’s status hierarchy to be valid in their system.
Probably this would need a separate article. Some social media do not have a real name policy and they don’t work any worse than the ones with a real name policy.
The thing that gets me is that Facebook (and Google+ before it) won’t accept my actual, real, legal name as valid. My last name is a common noun that is not common as a name, so whatever dictionary blacklist filter they’re using flags it instantly.
Back when Facebook was more lax about this sort of thing, I actually HAD a profile with my real name… but if for some reason I wanted to make one now that Zuckerberg has tightened his grasping little fists, I’d have to prove my identity by sending them a scan of my driver’s license or some other legal documentation, which will happen approximately never because that’s a steaming pile of bullshit. If you’re going to make signing up for your service that much of a pain in the ass for me, I don’t want it.
But then I’d be just another sheep. Doing whatever the masses are doing. Like when I joined in the first place.
I don’t get this at all. Facebook does nothing of the kind. It’s easy to have multiple accounts, and point each of them towards the friends you want to interact with. Real names are not required - remember Google+ trying that? Remember YouTube trying that? Fails.
Yes, some people might figure out your secondary (or more) accounts. Especially if your accounts friend each other, of course.
I’m no fan of Facebook’s terms, or business model, or fake privacy settings, or well, much of anything, but keep the criticism to what they can really be blamed for.
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