We already know Facebook's policy on pseudonyms is maddeningly inconsistent, but this news, just shared by tech veteran Jon Lebkowsky on Facebook, takes that policy to a new height of ridiculous irony:
"R.U. Sirius" is not a pseudonym known only to Ken Goffman's friends and family -- it's on Wikipedia, and for good reason: Founder of the incredibly influential Mondo 2000 (a predecessor to Wired magazine), Ken was talking about the Internet as a community a full decade before Facebook even existed. This is pretty much tantamount to prohibiting Neal Stephenson from actually using the metaverse. And it makes this quote from Ken doubly ironic:
... or maybe the next generation won't remember, ten years gone, who you even are.
Disclosure: Ken's a casual acquaintance, though I mostly know him from, you know, the Internet.
Update, 10:07am: Also worth adding: I first read about virtual reality as a kid in the incredibly influential magazine RU founded -- and now, ironically, the company trying to commercialize virtual reality won't even let RU use its main service.
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This is what happens when you let little children manage grownup things. Roots, baby. Roots.
Posted by: Nexcerpt | Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 05:18 AM
lol
Posted by: zz bottom | Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 10:22 AM
And that is just only one reason I don't "facebook".
Posted by: Mateus | Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 03:31 PM
Fecesbook was the former MySpace, which was the former friendster, which was the former [keep filling in the blank]
Fecesbook is the next AOL walled garden of junk. They were founded on calling their users dumb f*cks and voyeristcally to spy on girls.
Google, worth an order of magnitude more that FB, is a true internet and technology company founded on algorithms and smart innovation as opposed to being a copy of myspace and walled gardens that anyone can cut and paste.
Good riddens to Fecesbook but I wonder what's next. Better yet, what's going to be the next Google/Alphabet?
Posted by: Feces Book | Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 06:51 PM
I hate Flopbook.they are responsible for thousands of crimes & murders across the globe in my opinion .
How many lady's will be raped in the world tomorrow or children molested due to this companies real life identity policy.
Posted by: Sassy Monrue | Friday, October 30, 2015 at 09:10 AM
We are now in the middle of 2017, but this wicked Facebook practice continues and results in more and more casualty ... This creates opposition and unites the opponents of Facebook. Personally, I expect to see a new social media soon emerged and set off to relocate Facebook, giving more personal freedom and an opportunity for individualism and creativity.
Posted by: Rossy Ned | Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 06:27 AM
A nice idea by the facebook to prevent them , thanks for such a nice work for the facebook team.
Posted by: FMWA | Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 03:04 AM