Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name 304
Qedward writes "Freedom to go under a pseudonym is, miraculously, one freedom to survive the security lock-down of the previous decade. Now Facebook wants to change this. James Firth shows Facebook is clamping down on pseudonyms, with an interesting screenshot of being asked whether a friend is using their real name."
Re:Someone please tell Facebook that (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Someone please tell Facebook that (Score:2, Informative)
Everyone seems to forget that we aren't the customers, we're the product. This is all about increasing the quality of their data for their real customers.
Er, "Everyone"?
From the average 12-year old to the 85-year old Great-Grandmother, I have yet to run across someone using Facebook as a "customer" or a "product". They use it because it's free. They use it because it's cool. 90% of people on there don't even know their data is being sold, and therefore are absofuckinglutely clueless as to quality of data, or real customers.
People who sell shit for a living don't have a clue.
There is forgetting, and there is blind ignorance. Don't confuse the two.
Re:Someone please tell Facebook that (Score:4, Informative)
I got a real account.
and a fake account.
how else am I supposed to test facebook api's? by pestering my friends? fuck no.