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For the first time in a long time, it looks like Facebook, the king of social media, is a little worried about the competition. Ello, the social network that is advertiser free and lets users register under false or made up names if they choose, is gaining traction and Facebook is clearly a little wary of it, so it too is going to allow users to begin using a fake name online through a certain application, if they want.
While Facebook has yet to make the announcement itself, the NYTimes claims that the social network will soon be releasing stand-alone mobile application that will let users interact without using their real names, though it's not clear how this will relate to a user's main account. Presumably not at all, as the idea behind the app is to allow people to discuss topics they might not be entirely comfortable talking about with their main profile.
Considering most big forums allow pseudonyms, is this such a bad thing?
If Facebook does indeed introduce this app, it would be a real about face for it, since for years it's championed a reduction in personal privacy and an open plan network, that makes it easier for people to find one another. Conversely however, it also leads to people having information made public that they would otherwise have kept hidden. Similarly, Facebook sells users' data to advertisers.
Ello on the other hand, is promising to have no advertisers and therefore no one to sell too. It plans to make its money through limited, premium features. However at the moment the entire site is a premium, since it's invite only, much like the early days of Google + and indeed, Facebook.
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KitGuru Says: What do you guys thing of this move? Is it a good one for Facebook, or is it sacrificing one of its big features in order to seem like the cool, young upstart it clearly no longer is?
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Wrong move FB. the reason why MySpace and Friendster died because of pseudonym. It was a total mess with so many troll accounts and unreliable human profiles being added on those sites.
Use your nickname so we will know what you post around internet nice trick but Fuck you
You can already do something similar. If you manage a facebook page you can post using that. External sites with facebook connectivity allow you to post using your page, thus allowing a certain anonymity.
Of course, I wouldn’t recommend doing this with a corporate page, but a joke page, or even one made up just for commenting would be fine.
No. Friendster died because it was just lame. Myspace died because of the epileptic seizure inducing personal pages. Every page was filled with shitty music and thousands of animated gifs.
Facebook will eventually die because people are waking up to the fact that zuckerberg and his cohorts are profiting from your personal information.
Facebook has really lost me lately. I was sitting around bored just the other day, scrolling through Facebook when I realized that the layout is incredibly dated and ugly. Since the common movement is currently toward a minimalistic look on everything (even our OS as this point, what with Windows 10 and Windows 8/8.1) and Facebook is nothing but clutter. There’s clutter on the sides of the pages, the advertisements are clutter, the posts even look cluttered. I want to see some aesthetic changes.
On a side note, I’d also like to see a social media that lets you completely customize your page, essentially like building your own little website.
>On a side note, I’d also like to see a social media that lets you
completely customize your page, essentially like building your own
little website.
MySpace had that feature…
Facebook shouldn’t force real name usage in the first place.
“Like” pages are limited. You can’t comment on user pages or like user page content with a “page”. It’s not the same.
As does Tumblr, though it’s community is pretty terrible for the most part.
It did indeed, but I mean user designed almost 100%. My issue with both Tumblr and the old Myspace (aside from Tumblr’s terrible community, and it awful comments/share/posting system) is that it’s still pretty much in the design of what the website chooses. I feel there could be MORE creative freedom if I could choose the way comments worked if at all, or if I could design it from the bottom up in usability. Of course there would have to be noob friendly builds and defaults, but I want something I can design that interacts with all of my real life friends.