Is your Facebook page safe?

[Quasirodent]

Facebook's founding idea was that people would provide their real names, where they went to school, where they live, their gender, age, and interests... so that other people can find them.

Which is STUPID.  E-stalking?  Identity theft? Abusive relatives you want to avoid?  Hello?  There are lots of good reasons to shield oneself behind an internet persona.

Well,  there's rumors going around of a crackdown on character accounts, fan accounts, people who use internet handles, people who have more than one account, or anyone else who they just happen to decide isn't being REAL enough.   So far, Facebook hasn't officially said that they're starting up a witch-hunt, but a lot of people are changing their names to sound more human.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2012/08/is-facebook-cracking-down-on-bots-and.html
http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2012/08/facebook_83_million_accounts_are_duplicates_and_fakes.html

[Distind]

Given how well this worked for Google+ I don't think this will go terribly far, and if it does... well, meh.

[Her3tiK]

Not that I don't use my IRL name of Facebook, but I left Myspace about when they started trying to force that shit.