Facebook asking if friends are using their real names

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.co...-users-about-their-friends-fake-usernames.php

Given the company's TOS, mentality, and the numerous ways in which data can be correlated, anyone assuming that they can keep their account and stored information separate from their real identity should rethink that.

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/0...ssioner_facebook_review_following_2011_audit/

 

If you want to make up names on Facebook, you can't connect in any way to your real life. Otherwise, your "anonymity" is doomed. Isn't that obvious?

 

The moment any web based social media is "used" anonymity is 0.

I don't use it. When I tank up the car, go to a movie is of no interest to anybody.

 

Your anonymity is practically 0 regardless, if you do anything else in modern society. You may be safe from Facebook prodding, but your bank, grocery store, workplace, hospital and so on know who you are. These are places both the government and hackers can get information from easily. Now I'm no tin foil hat wearer, but society is making it more and more difficult to be "off the grid". Not using social media is something I'm actually in favor of, but truthfully you're only avoiding a limited amount of the overall threat by staying away from them.

Facebook shouldn't be asking questions like this though, in my own opinion.

 

i wonder how much longer its going to be until when you buy gas and pay with a CC, (or make any other purchase with a CC for that matter), your ID and location details are instantly sent to google so they can send ads to you on your iPhone as well as add the data to your profile. i bet its less than 5 years.

i tried to sign up for an random acct on facebook a few days ago to communicate with a software maker (they have no forum, just use facebook to deal with customers) and fb wanted a cell phone number just to confirm acct or it would be deleted, so i declined. glad i never got involved with "social media" bs.

 

So, in the end we will be enslaved!...but, they still won't catch the crooks, bad guys and terrorists! What a world we live in...going to hell in a handbasket.

 

Well, there was this little gem from last year: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204002304576627030651339352.html

 

I haven't heard of the cell phone requirement yet. They certainly would never get mine, though I'm certain Google already has it. As to sending ads, look to smartphone map apps for an example. Apple and others are using it to target ads relevant to where you are currently at. That's the plan at least and they readily admit it. Although, currently a few are moving away from Google and replacing them with their own map services. Which is why you have the ongoing Apple maps SNAFU.

 

So, basically, FB is asking people to 'rat out' their friends?

Wow! Have things changed that much?
That was one of the worst things you could do.
Where was I when that changed?

Seems a few 'regimes' started out that same way...rat out your 'friends' and neighbors.

FB is not for me, but if you have a business you want to promote,
and sign on as that business, then I could see it.

 

It seems to be over now http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmir...g-users-to-snitch-on-friends-with-fake-names/.

Facebook might have to learn the hard way like Google. The problem with that is that, unlike Google, Facebook was designed to get every bit of information on its users. It's a social network, privacy and social networks don't mesh well.

 

Easiest way for a fake Facebook (for use for deals, etc.) is to make up a name and send friend invites to people who already have tons of friends and obviously accept everyone's request. Think local TV newspeople, politicos, local restaurants, sports teams, local radio disc jockeys, local bands, clubs. You can do this and respond to news items, etc. Talk about your college days at Whatever U (a BIG school)....use their logo on your page, before long you look active but in reality have connected with nobody who knows you.

 

Real name requirements are listed here, along with other basic account requirements. Security is totally another issue.
Those with Facebook accounts would have to manage those and that's a personal preference.
http://www.facebook.com/help/112146705538576/
http://www.facebook.com/help/privacy/sharing-choices

 

They should think about privacy of the users

 

Although Facebook privacy is always hotly debated, folks like me and many others are constantly after them to make the site more safe and private. I am not a social sharing advocate, I have steered many unwitting users from not signing up at Facebook.

 

One of the largest breaches of privacy ever created.Everybody,s life is more or less judged by your facebook status.
Where is it all heading to though?

 

Not necessarily. A "creatively altered" name is generally good enough to allude most low-level adversaries or snoops, such as a prospective employer searching your real name to see if you have a Facebook account. But if a determined stalker already knows all of the names of your family and friends, then yeah; your anonymity is doomed.

 

If Facebook flags a contrived or dummy account, it would be disabled and | or closed. For what it's worth

 

"Can Facebook and Privacy walk hand in hand?"

 

In most cases, if not all, I would say no, unfortunately.

 

They can try, but if there's no Facebook account....
I'm waiting for the day that someone tries to force me to open one or makes one a requirement for something.

 

With now 1 billion (not counting known fake accounts) people using it, I would not at all be shocked if it became a requirement for more things. There are already websites and services that require it and employers are growing increasingly interested in viewing prospective employee accounts. California had to ban employers from demanding Facebook passwords, so that right there should say a lot.

I think the evidence is piling up that we're moving away from a private world where one can do their own thing and be left alone or not be considered untrustworthy because we aren't doing what everyone else thinks we should do.

 

Facebook hits the big one: 1 billion monthly active users

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When you open a Facebook account the only personal information required is your name, your birthday and your email. You can leave the account like that, set it up with full privacy options and then you have a Facebook account that tells almost nothing. Just a thought...

 

I doubt it