Re:Building friend catchers
by 0xferruccio on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:12AM
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The core message is “The internet is great at organizing information and making you find things you like. If you express your true interests, like minded people will discover you.”
If you prefer using an alias that’s totally cool!
His experience would also likely have been very different had he been a she, in which case "raver tomato" would have been much preferred.
Re:Building friend catchers
by egypturnash on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:03AM
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YEP
That’s what I was thinking as well. Using one’s real name adds the possibility of that being used against you as well as feeding spammers and other nefarious actors.
Re:Building friend catchers
by dncornholio on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @11:37AM
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Wondering if this is some state-sponsored post to prevent people entering bogus information online. Everything in this article is true, except the "Lesson learned"
Re:Building friend catchers
by egypturnash on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @08:39PM
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It’s not as if corporations haven’t had their own reasons to push for “real names” to make tracking easier.
Aliases give you the option of more easily disassociating things from your legal identity, as well as making it harder for people to find all the embarassing shit you posted when you were a teenager.