taswal_tmanir

You might lose all online communication options with at least some of your friends. This is unacceptable to many/most people, hence why they join Facebook and end up perpetuating the effect.

> Though personally, I find the whole concept of this type of multiple identities weird. Why should I present a different identity at work than I do in personal affairs?

Most people act more formally at work than they would otherwise. It's the same idea.

> And if your boss objects to your weekend parties, then (unless we're talking PR-heavy industry, you being in the spotlight) you should consider changing jobs. Caring about such issues is as sign of serious problems in the company.

If you have a secure job, or are important to the company, maybe.

Many younger people are not so secure in their jobs, however, or live in a highly religious area, or both. A Facebook user still dependent on their strict parents could also be ruined by a stray pic.

> What about the people who do live single life, who do want their real-life relationships to follow them on-line?

Then they just drumroll use their real name?

Heck, they could have even used a more easily recognizable nickname... before this policy, anyway.

> People who are trying to disconnect their Facebook identity from their real world identity are not using Facebook the way it's meant to be used and should probably just leave it.

The way Facebook is "meant" to be used is to maximize their revenue from data mining.

This is clearly not something we, the users, should be caring about.

> That being said, Facebook could definitely do a better job of making it easier for people to prove that a name is their everyday name even when it's not their legal name.

How is that even possible? There's no authority for "proving" nicknames, and I highly doubt Facebook is going to bother hiring judges to evaluate non-standard evidence. Not when it's easier, and more profitable, just to demand everyone's legal name.

> but I'd love to hear an argument over why access to Facebook is a right

Why not flip it around, and ask why Facebook has the right to demand our real names? In some countries, at least, it's seeming that it doesn't. <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/29/germany-fi...

> If you're a person at risk due to many of the issues described here, you don't belong on Facebook.

Including the "issues" of: being a "Native American...using traditional Irish and Scottish names...[being a] LGBTQ [Facebook] user"? Including the "issue" of just having an unusual name, like Violet Blue?

This is online. We shouldn't HAVE the same tragedies of discrimination as someone buying beer. We definitely shouldn't be promoting requirements that increase the likelihood of those tragedies.