My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
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Re: My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
#2How sad is it that the "protest" they come up with is to deactivate their accounts for a day?.
Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely. Or do like I do and leave up a bare bones page with a bit of contact information for old friends and never visit.
Re: My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
#3How sad is it that the "protest" they come up with is to deactivate their accounts for a day ?. Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely. Or do like I do and leave up a bare bones page with a bit of contact information for old friends and never visit .
>Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely
And then...? What? Try to get people to invite you to events on Google Hangouts or whatever Google has?
Re: My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
#4How sad is it that the "protest" they come up with is to deactivate their accounts for a day ?. Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely. Or do like I do and leave up a bare bones page with a bit of contact information for old friends and never visit .
>Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely And then...? What? Try to get people to invite you to events on Google Hangouts or whatever Google has?
I just stopped caring about being invited to "events". If the event is so impersonal that it needs to be broadcast rather than two or three people organizing and then blasting a simple text message like "Hey beers at 5PM at . Come if you can!" I just don't care.
Re: My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
#5How sad is it that the "protest" they come up with is to deactivate their accounts for a day ?. Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely. Or do like I do and leave up a bare bones page with a bit of contact information for old friends and never visit .
>Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely And then...? What? Try to get people to invite you to events on Google Hangouts or whatever Google has?
Or you could, say, call, text, and e-mail people you want to be in contact with. The idea that someone can be completely cut off from all their contacts just because they lose their Facebook account is absurd and reckless on the part of the user.
Re: My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
#6Summary: Facebook has an overly rigid process governing names and this guy has an edge-case problem.
Is this not a solved issue? How do women who change their name upon marriage use Facebook? Does Facebook recognize legal name changes? Is that not in effect here?
Re: My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely And then...? What? Try to get people to invite you to events on Google Hangouts or whatever Google has?
Or you could, say, call, text, and e-mail people you want to be in contact with. The idea that someone can be completely cut off from all their contacts just because they lose their Facebook account is absurd and reckless on the part of the user.
I didn't say anything about being completely cut off from all your contacts. I said, how will people remember to invite you to events, other than by your 5 closest friends who would jump through the hoops of - sending you an email? Or text message.
I don't mean as some theoretical exercise, I mean practically speaking. In fact, a lot of totally public events are only listed on Facebook anyway. The easiest thing to do is to invite people via FB. The bar is raised dramatically by making people send an unsolicited text message or email, if they even have your email address.
I just coordinated a meetup via email. Unbelievably awkward and high-friction.
Re: My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely And then...? What? Try to get people to invite you to events on Google Hangouts or whatever Google has?
I just stopped caring about being invited to "events". If the event is so impersonal that it needs to be broadcast rather than two or three people organizing and then blasting a simple text message like "Hey beers at 5PM at . Come if you can!" I just don't care.
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Re: My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
#9How sad is it that the "protest" they come up with is to deactivate their accounts for a day ?. Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely. Or do like I do and leave up a bare bones page with a bit of contact information for old friends and never visit .
I'd really like for everyone to construct elaborate arbitrary but consistent identities.
It would make Facebook enormously fun as opposed to a large interconnected network of corporate brands and homogenized identities.
A communal reflection of the minds eye. The current perpetual thanksgiving dinner is fun but I'd rather talk about dreams. Exploration over documentation.
Re: My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely And then...? What? Try to get people to invite you to events on Google Hangouts or whatever Google has?
I just stopped caring about being invited to "events". If the event is so impersonal that it needs to be broadcast rather than two or three people organizing and then blasting a simple text message like "Hey beers at 5PM at . Come if you can!" I just don't care.
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