YES, SURELY.
Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd delete Facebook if it weren't so damn useful...
Honest question: What about facebook do you find useful? I hate that I have to preface a question as being sincere to ensure that it isn't read as an insult, but here we are.
The most useful thing I find is just to contact friends. If I need to chat to someone then I know that if I send them a facebook message they'll most likely read it and reply within the day.
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#273Yup. It's my Twitter and my Website, and it makes it easier for someone to contact me.
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#274For some reason I'm extremely hesitant to post things under my real name. I don't really care if people know my name on an individual basis (and it's not like I'm a high profile poster anyway), but I am squeamish about it generally, and feel too self-conscious to post anything if my name is associated directly with it. I've tried blogging under my real name and always went back and deleted everything, it caused me to…
I think the future will be one where we're split on this - not as a society, but individually. You will have your public persona and your private persona. I have to be public because I'm in news, but not everything I do has to be associated with my real name, and I take advantage of that when I feel like it. That ability and that habit will only become safer and more accepted over time.
PhinisheD (http://www.phinished.org/) has done this for many years. You must have a user account to make posts, but if there are reasons to post anonymously, then you can do so by posting it as "AFT" - anonymous for this. Everyone has the same anonymous moniker, and it is clear when someone is posting anonymously.
I like this so approach so much that I've actually created AFT or numbered AFT accounts in several places where I don't want a regular username associated with the comment.
I also have themed usernames. Anything I post professionally goes with my real life name or a moniker known by my professional colleagues. I have several hobbies and several very different subjects that I'm trying to learn, and each of those have different associated usernames.
I thought that OpenID would support this concept, but it never seemed to (maybe I was missing some key concept?). Now I have hope that Mozilla Persona might fill this gap.
Re: Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?
#275For some reason I'm extremely hesitant to post things under my real name. I don't really care if people know my name on an individual basis (and it's not like I'm a high profile poster anyway), but I am squeamish about it generally, and feel too self-conscious to post anything if my name is associated directly with it. I've tried blogging under my real name and always went back and deleted everything, it caused me to…
I use a pseudonym derived from my first name, or whole name. Considering that even when open about my name I've been slammed for my beliefs, for disagreeing with someone (I was polite, so their response shocked me), and so on. I've done dumb stuff, smart stuff, etc.
I'm a fairly private person in person, but I'm far more open offline than I'll ever be online.
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#276Re: Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?
#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honest question: What about facebook do you find useful? I hate that I have to preface a question as being sincere to ensure that it isn't read as an insult, but here we are.
The most useful thing I find is just to contact friends. If I need to chat to someone then I know that if I send them a facebook message they'll most likely read it and reply within the day.
This - it's a dynamic contacts book for the extended group of people I know, don't speak to on a regular basis but might want to at some point.
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#278Yes, and for almost[1] all other things on the internet for that matter. "We should try to be happy, if only to set an example." -Jacques Prévert I try to be as open and plainly honest as possible, and I think using my real name keeps me from being inflammatory, and I think it also keeps other from doing the same to me (at least a little). Put another way, I think using real names makes an atmosphere of more empathy…
So basically you are putting up an act when you post under your real name?
In that sense, everybody is always putting up an act. Putting it a different way, nobody is ever really doing anything without taking context into account. So using a identifiable name could be described as controlling part of the context.
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#279Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd delete Facebook if it weren't so damn useful...
Honest question: What about facebook do you find useful? I hate that I have to preface a question as being sincere to ensure that it isn't read as an insult, but here we are.
As someone not living in my country, it makes keeping track of my friends and family much easier.
Re: Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?
#280Yes. Because I forgot the password to my other account.