Is it just me who thinks this is overreach? The fucking NSA is less intrusive!!!

If someone is running a sketchy business off their platform, or engaging in nefarious themes, that's one thing, but if Uncle Fred who works for the CIA wants to get pictures of the nieces and nephews just wants to be Uncle Fred--not his full name and lifestory-- on the facebook, why are these people wanting to give him shit?

And if you want to stay hidden, you have to prove to some stranger on fb WHY you want to stay hidden?

"Say, you have a restraining order? Against whom? For what reason?"

"You have a stalker, you say? Well, is there a police report to prove this?"

"Send us copies of your relevant identification--and maybe we'll let you use our shitty, data-gathering platform."

It's all about Instagram and Twitter now.

Carly Fiorina was all over those three, like they were the Holy Trinity, tonight!

See, she's cool because she "understands" this stuff!

Isn't Snapchat the one that eats your posts thirty seconds after you transmit them?

You'll love this: my paper did a story on teenage sexting. We interviewed some teens, and one of them said "sexting is bad everywhere but on Snapchat and there it's okay because your picture is deleted right away." Well...there is http://www.1mtb.com/5-ways-to-save-snapchat-snaps-permanently-without-the-senders-knowledge/

a photo of one's fiddly bits, replete with imperfections and bad lighting, and sending that along to one's paramour in hopes of inflaming passion. Maybe it's a generational thing, but I'd be thinking "Do you want me to look for an odd mole or an open sore, or something? WHY are you sending this to me?"

'fiddly bits"

a new one on me

I doubt you'll find any guy who would tell a girl he was interested in "Please dont send me any more pictures like that"

As in the "Do you know your ass from your elbow?" test!!

http://www.dr-dilligaf.org/arseorelbow/#

Then you find out if the guy shows any of his friends!!
Theres also a pic running around of a carrot that looks JUST like a rear view of a pair of legs and butt!

ETA: I got 11/14!!

"Because guys. especially teenage ones, will take ANYTHING we can get!"

I imagine your circle of acquaintances a rather small sample size to deduce such an inaccurate conclusion. More projection than deduction in fact, I would guess.

You really think most teenage/young adult age males are going to tell a girl to NOT send him any racy pictures? Certainly SOME will, but most wont. Thats not a deduction, its reality. Most of the "sexting" news involves girls sending pictures, not the reverse. Because women have more sense about stuff like that and never ask for it.

Years ago I really liked " MySpace" but hasn't it gone all rock music or some such?
I haven't checked back in ages.

The fact that Facebook does is disturbing.

It irritates the hell out of me, frankly!

to "give your phone number and be in even better touch with friends" almost every fucking time I'm on FB (which is, sad to say, far more often than I should be). Um, no. You already have a lot of information on me and you do NOT need my goddamned phone number also. And all of the friends and family I want to have it, or who need to have it, already do so that reason is bullshit.

Zuckerburg has this thing about everyone needing to share everything all the fucking time with everyone and that if you don't want to do that, or just want to be alone once in awhile, there's something wrong with you. He's pretty much come out and said it a few times in interviews or in unveiling new FB features. Annoying as hell.

So I am now a Rogue Mage who works in World of Warcraft.

Never joined facebook, never will.

One other thing you can't do is put prefixes before your name (Dr., Rev., etc.).

I personally know a person who was harassed by an ex-boyfriend who had no problem changing her name.

The flip side to real identity is if someone is using an account to harass someone (which HAS happened thousands of times a year). If it were a very serious situation Facebook would not only want to disable the account, but contact the police and hand over information about the person so that the police could act on it and get the person who was doing the harassment.

Most will remember the teen who committed suicide a few years ago, where the mother of one of her classmates created a fake account to harass her. I don't remember her name, but I do remember watching a TV show about the case.

It's nothing more than the the TIA (remember that from the Bush days? Total Information Awareness?) Well, congress said it would not be legal.
But, if it's voluntary, it is legal.

Everyone on Snitchbook is a SUCKER!

I can go online as Dick Huge.

They can't use their real name, for obvious reasons, if they're criticizing their governments, especially in countries notorious for human rights abuses.

But when they go online under an assumed name, the first thing repressive governments and their fanboys do is snitch out the dissidents for not using their real names.

Facebook just needs to lose the real-names policy. It causes more problems than it solves.

Indian reservation and this "real names" policy has wreaked real havoc with many native Americans with names like "Kills Pretty Enemy" or "Uses the Knife", etc., which are very real names and actually common on many reservations. They couldn't get accounts under their own names, and were called liars or ignored when they attempted to give proof. Hopefully, this policy change will change that for the better.

Not that they should have had any such policy to begin with, it's none of FB's damn business.

Never will.