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[–]rubberbiscuit 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I may never understand why any human on earth bothers to open a twitter account using their real name.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

That is one of the most fundamental reasons why facebook is such a potent poison.

[–]Ehhhhhh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think that facebook was a positive thing at one time. However, I think that it helped users to find others who shared simular interests and was a way for people to connect with others they'd lost touch with.

However, they can't have THAT. Must have divide and isolation and so used it as a way to gather data and then control the narrative/push propaganda..

We really need a Facebook that won't be data mined or used by govt agencies to catalogue us. Unfortunately, that will never exist.

While Facebook is crap now, no one points out what good it did do for some people in connecting them with family and friends. Not everyone was a drama mongering attn whore.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Nah, any site that requires you to use your actual name is going to be misused. You could have the same thing with usernames, like Gab or Minds or Bastyon, they are OK.

[–]Ehhhhhh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Think, though, of how aside from the drama, how facebook had the ability to bring some families together and keep them connected in at least some sense. There is no way that I would've found old acquaintances or even some distant cousins without it. Real name was necessary to do that.

I think destroying facebook helps to continue the disconnect of family who aren't in the same town or county.

Talk to old normies about their families and how they stay in touch... Not everyone can call or visit often enough and social media is a way for the Nanas, Gramps and old Aunt Myrtle to see pics and "interact" by commenting, etc.. It shouldn't totally replace real life get togethers, but it helps tie folks together. There should be a better service that doesn't exploit the need for human connection to where some can use their name. I doubt majority of old people would try a new service, though.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nope. You can have a username displayed and a secret search. By secret search, I mean: say I search for my cousin, I type her name in. On my cousin's end, she gets a notification that I searched for her, and it's up to her to connect. They connect. We now communicate through USER NAMES without our real names ever being displayed.

Child's play. Not only that, but there were many sites such as ancestry, and schoolmates sites, etc. that enable such find-somebodies. Now those require the real name, but they aren't social media. You don't have your full identity and a database of every post you ever liked, every comment you've ever made, every opinion you've ever expressed. THAT is the real and present danger.