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Facebook Wants You To Snitch On Friends Not Using Their Real Name

Posted by Soulskill on from the anonymous-cowards-welcome-here dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Someone please tell Facebook that by Frac+O+Mac · · Score: 5, 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.

  2. Re:Someone please tell Facebook that by gl4ss · · Score: 3, 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.

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