I've been on the Internet for just over 30 years now - and anonymity has pretty much been standard practice since then. I did use my full name when I was on FB (left it years ago), I do on Twitter and Linkedin, but nothing else. But if you want to know why some people need anonymity, try changing your profile from white male to BAME woman and post something contentious. Within minutes you could see enough abuse to want to never go online again...
There's also the matter of people in the likes of China who are massively censored so could make that even worse. The counter argument to what example you have given is that the trolls wouldn't be able to hide behind a fake identity either. I can see both sides and I don't know what the solution is. As it is now isn't it, though.
There’s no way it’ll happen. Think how many millions are using these platforms whilst at work, school, college, uni etc & shouldn’t be on there. The social media companies wouldn’t want to lose them or have them posting far less.
I saw a post on Twitter that made me laugh, it said ‘I almost had a threesome on Sunday, I only needed two more people’. All the replies were along a similar jokey vein e.g. ‘I’ve been so close for the last 25 years’ etc. If I posted the joke, there’d still be some funny replies but there’d also be people calling me a slut, loads of men being pervy and I’d probably be in trouble at work if they/a student/a parent saw it.
Oh the big companies would fight against it as it would threaten their revenue streams massively. Their X million active users sales reach claims would diminish rapidly when all the bots were weeded out, too.
its bad enough faking one cuddle , or is it all matter of fact at the end ?,right better get off then now, I only put an hour on the car
