I created a facebook account using a pseudonym.
Anyone know if people can still do this? I think I heard that facebook was asking people for ID now to set up accounts? Anybody know if that’s true?
Actually, I only have a fake FB page, I don’t use it that much but needed it to access certain sites for business.
I heard you can’t do a fake FB page anymore too, don’t know if it’s true. Would like to open another ‘different name’ fake FB page :>)
Officially, Facebook has always required “real” names and identities for its individual user accounts. That was a huge difference from “MySpace” which had become clogged with countless fake accounts. How closely or consistently that is enforced, I don’t know. I am on there, occasionally, just for family and alumni connections. Some acquaintances (former classmates etc.) do use pseudonyms or just first/middle names to retain a certain degree of anonymity, although their friends and family know who they are.
I suspect it’s not hard to maintain an account with a pseudonym as long as it is not a spam oriented account that might get reported.