We sort of fell into the trap, especially with my wife being an elementary school teacher, but we backed off a bit and its been for the better. I’m a VORACIOUS reader, I had reading issues when I was younger, was given books way to old for me, and my interest in the topics sped up my reading ability beyond my age -…

either someone may have reported me, or Facebook detected me, since I set my age at 101. it probably makes me the oldest person on Facebook. Yesterday Facebook asked for my photo ID, I googled and found a fake ID I could use. I photoshopped it, all looked perfect but I forgot to “sign” the ID, the “Signature” part was…

I work in a job where support mental health patients and prisoners - some of whom can become violent and unstable; I want to have a Facebook account but I don’t want any of those clients being able to track me down. It feels totally unfair that I will find myself at risk because of this requirement. My account - in…

Maybe that's so if you've been on facebook for say, a year. When I joined in 08 virtually nobody I knew used their real name. Yes it was designed for real names, but it was also designed to be basically a college year book where you could talk to the people in the pictures. When it became a major network it started…

Fun and games with Facebook continues - having finally gotten a real email address for a real person (by sending the aforementioned customer service form) ... I keep getting responses of "you need to provide your real first and last name and government issued photo ID to reinstate your account - or for us to answer…

How do you prevent being banned for a fake name when you're using your real name? This happens to me all the time. Every time I request or accept a friend request, my account gets shut down.

There's no rhyme or reason. I have a few hundred friends, mostly professional connections. I post to friends pages or private groups. I got shut down without any additional warning despite the supposed extension until Oct. 1st. Fellow performers have already started posting contact info. But now, we're all…

I worked for years as an IT consultant and felt it was important to keep my personal life firewalled from my professional existence but the family kept insisting I have a facebook account. I chose the name of a 50's TV character and have been using it for years without complaint. The sad part to me is FB figured out…

I feel compelled to point out that putting transgender with pseudonyms and stage names is not very cool— especially when you already have "chosen names not yet made legal" already specified.

I'm wondering what their little robot's going to do about unusual names. By way of example, my first name is Fox. LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, articles I've had published online as a writer...all good.

Oh my goodness - they're hilarious... so I leave em 'feedback' on their 'Security' feedback form (I mean really where else am I going to leave it?) and I get back the following:
"Hi,

exactly - my real life, my online life, they've always been separate things... 19 yrs now I've been Ocean's Edge in the digital universe - that is as much 'who I am' as any name I was born with (if not moreso) ... who's to say what a 'real name' is?

Honestly - its nothing more than a busy online Starbucks or Mall of…

Oh and yes, I tried in vain to send the same missive to Facebook staff this morning (with a few minor tweaks and a couple of references to Canadian privacy law for Private enterprises. Specifically:

Back when I originally signed up a Facebook account in 2008? (09?) I created my account with the name I've been known online as since 1995, in all sectors, and all segments of cyber space this has been my identity. In 1995 the idea of using a real name online was ... unheard of. When Google+ suspended by account…

I've often wondered how that worked on Facebook. I have people on my friends list that have been using fake names ever since they got a profile and have never been flagged. Even the ones that are obviously fake on top of it. I've seen last names change on a regular basis from marriages and divorces but they don't seem…

How hard would it be to just offer a category of profile that is explicitly for an assumed name, but not necessarily a professional performer promoting events? I'm sure there are a bazillion Burning Man types with assumed silly names, where most of the people they interact with on a daily basis wouldn't have the…

What makes me furious is that Facebook has publicly thrown its support behind homophobes, stalkers, abusers, trolls, bullies, and repressive regimes. Name names, they've said, anonymously denounce and expose anyone you don't like, and we'll do the dirty work of forcing them to identify themselves or lose their…

It may be important to note here that Facebook Pages do not work the same way that Facebook Profiles do. People who have used Facebook Profiles will be used to the concept that all of their Friends will see all of the posts to their Wall. However, if a post is made to a Facebook Page, not every Follower will see the…

I deleted my last name. Facebook made it pretty complex - I had to use a proxy and switch my 'language' temporarily while the deletion occurred, but I'm super happy with it. My privacy settings are locked down and my profile picture doesn't show my face. I do enjoy using Facebook - it allows me to connect easily with…

I have a friend who doesn't have a name that meets Facebook's unwritten list of sufficiently WASPy names who has not been able to get Facebook to let him use his real last name (which is Wanna) because they think it is slang.

I have another friend who used the name Pumpkin Spice as a joke and has had no trouble with…