Facebook is seeking to clarify its many contradictory policies, including ambiguity around "real names", and the new Community Standards are bad news for Second Life users who want to maintain a Facebook account named after their avatar:
Of course, a Facebook Page has less functionality than a Facebook account, so some SLers are unlikely to find this acceptable. The only solution may be to establish that your avatar name is known to people in the offline world, and ask Sister Roma for intercession.
"But wait," some readers are no doubt thinking, "Second Life is not a game, so how come Facebook doesn't have an exception for SL avatars?" Leaving aside the questionable assumptions behind the "Second Life is not a game" statement, a more obvious point still applies:
Second Life's actual co-creator Cory Ondrejka was, up until very recently, one of Facebook's top executives, has been so for about 5 years, and was directly instrumental in Facebook's acquisition of Oculus Rift. So if Facebook really found it to be feasible or even desirable to carve out an exception for SL avatars -- and Cory advised them in that direction -- the company would have done so years ago. So again, SLers, seek Sister Roma's intercession instead.
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Posted by: Arcadia Codesmith | Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 04:27 AM
Facebook hates avatars. They really can't be more explicit. Scram, avatars. If we can't monetize your real life, we don't want you hanging around.
Posted by: Mr. Obvious | Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 11:31 PM
Fu**** Facebook, there are alternatives.
Posted by: zz bottom | Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 02:18 AM