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YouTube Pushing Users Switch To Real Names
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#42Perhaps the whole idea of "Real names" is outdated in the days of the internet. Since they have problems.
They collide, especially with a common name. Somebody googles your name and it may be difficult to find the "real" you.
Also people are pretty bad at spelling, many peoples names are very hard to spell. Not to mention that many of them are going to use different character sets.
Besides, if your life revolves around your internet identity. Is that a less legitimate identity than your real name?
It may be more practical for parents to assign some sort of "default handle" to their children which is expected to be changed as the child gets older.
For government purposes, perhaps a unique ID that cannot be changed would work better?
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#43I find Google's new policies surprising. Maybe "surprising" isn't the right word, but it's certainly a change in attitude that seems to ignore their own history. They started off by giving the web what it wanted and needed, a no-bullshit search service, adapting themselves to the web and profiting from it. Now they are trying to adapt the web to them, and I just don't see it going that way. Pseudonymity and the web go together, I really have my doubts in their their ability to remove it, influential as they are. Granted, Facebook may have changed people's attitudes towards pseudonymity, but I tend to think it's still something people fundamentally want.
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#44Fuck G+.
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#45At first I was kinda excited for this since I don't really go by my Youtube handle anymore, so I'd rather it be my new handle or my name. However, once I started the process, I realized I had uploaded some videos of my friend and I playing NBA Hangtime. Our team name is "WANKIT SLOWLY". Not sure I want that to be associated with my real name when people Google me.
Too late... I myself have been somewhat disturbed at the many hoards of "hacker news" indexers and mirror sites that come up when I google my screenname. Deleting/editing the comment may not even be enough anymore.
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#46If i had to use my real name, I'd probably never comment on this site (good or bad thing, you can decide). A lot of people aren't interested in attribution and just want to take part in discussions on the internet. Also, anon-posting gives you the opportunity to get better at having online discussions. Everybody sounds like a troll now and then, you need to feel like it's not attached to your identity to really express yourself. The quality of youtube comments is not going to go up, and people are just going to start using fake "real names".
Which apparently amazon has a trademark on anyway: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8...
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#47I'm actually interested in using my real name but I would like to be able to employ pseudonyms as well (mostly to be able to interact as a brand). When you opt out of using your real name they ask you what the reason is and I think based on the feedback they get from that little survey they might extend the functionality to include multiple names in some way shape or form. (at least I hope). Google+ already has some…
The point is that they don't -want- you to use pseudonyms. I don't know about the rest of you but I segregate the various presences in the aether. What I found most offensive is that they omitted the option of saying that you did not want to use your real name solely because you didn't -want- to use your real name. I posted a short reaction at http://youtu.be/Imhqt1vr3T8 Hopefully their search engine will pick it up.
doesn't the "personal use, cannot use my real name" box cover your concerns?
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#48At first I was kinda excited for this since I don't really go by my Youtube handle anymore, so I'd rather it be my new handle or my name. However, once I started the process, I realized I had uploaded some videos of my friend and I playing NBA Hangtime. Our team name is "WANKIT SLOWLY". Not sure I want that to be associated with my real name when people Google me.
Too late... I myself have been somewhat disturbed at the many hoards of "hacker news" indexers and mirror sites that come up when I google my screenname. Deleting/editing the comment may not even be enough anymore.
Well, not exactly. My real name isn't the same as my HN handle, but point well taken. I don't think it would be terribly hard to get from one to the other.
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#49It's a good thing all real names are unique and easy to remember...
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#50It's often argued in these cases that identification and real names will increase the quality of comments by eliminating trolls, stalkers and troublemakers somehow. When measured empirically, one study found that anonymous commenting from people without user accounts increases the ratio of good comments to poor quality ones. The reason is that so many more people comment. There's a certain fixed number of trolls and…
I have no problem using my real name, In fact, I'm already using it on YouTube. The only 'vloggers' who would benefit from anonymity are the ones who have something to say that could be consider 'controversial' by someone else.