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Re:Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dange... by PhasmaFelis on Monday October 05, 2015 @04:41PM (#10334769)
> I'm sincerely curious ... how is a social network like Facebook, which is built around connecting you with your real-world friends and acquaintances, supposed to work if you can't require users to identify themselves in a meaningful way?

"Hey, Steve, what's your Facebook name?" "Goku35179." "Cool, I'm friending you."

If your long-lost friends and former co-workers and classmates do not choose to be findable, that should be their decision to make. But that was always only a secondary use case for Facebook.

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