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It's surely possible, but would it be a good thing?

When I first starting posting things online, the general advice was "don't use your real name", "don't say anything that will reveal where you live", etc.

Now we're not only using our real names but advocating for identity verification of all commenters? How did this go so wrong so fast?

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Facebook made the transition plausible; a formal social network, then slowly, the creep began, where it's now acceptable to use your real name online.

I still heed the advice of the 90's: NEVER use your real name. We still have that choice thankfully.

> I still heed the advice of the 90's: NEVER use your real name.

Where was this advice given? In my experience, people online in the 1990s routinely used their real names, and emails (in the late 90s obfuscated or removed due to spam), on the primary social-network at that time (Usenet), and people still do to this day.

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