It's not Facebook's official announcement, but when Facebook's marketing director says so, we feel tempted to say it's said by Facebook.
Named Randi Zuckerberg, the youngest billionaire's sister and Marketing Director of Facebook argues that anonymity online has to go away in order to stop cyberbullying. She says people put anonymity as their identity to talk and behave like being behind closed door. People behave much better when they use their real name.
Marie Claire magazine hosted a panel discussion on social media this Tuesday evening where Randi Zuckerberg said her thoughts on cyberbullying.
However, user reaction to this thought has been widely negative. As seen on many news blogs including The Huffington Post, users arguing online anonymity is a necessity. Nicknamed "Dante," a comment author on HuffPost wrote, "I have been accused of many things by very angry people who misconstrue my political views as crimes against their god, or the words of a scientist-therefore-heretic. I don't feel safe in my own home, with my postal address, phone numbers and email addresses known to almost everyone, in real life."
The blog also quoted GigaOm's article by Matthew Ingram, "Many people believe that requiring real names will solve the problems of trolls and bad behavior, but they don’t -- and that policy can have negative consequences in terms of suppressing dialogue about important topics."
Do you think killing online anonymity will solve all the problems without creating any addition -- and greater -- problems?
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| Randi Zuckerberg's photo from her Facebook album [facebook.com/randi]. |
Named Randi Zuckerberg, the youngest billionaire's sister and Marketing Director of Facebook argues that anonymity online has to go away in order to stop cyberbullying. She says people put anonymity as their identity to talk and behave like being behind closed door. People behave much better when they use their real name.
Marie Claire magazine hosted a panel discussion on social media this Tuesday evening where Randi Zuckerberg said her thoughts on cyberbullying.
However, user reaction to this thought has been widely negative. As seen on many news blogs including The Huffington Post, users arguing online anonymity is a necessity. Nicknamed "Dante," a comment author on HuffPost wrote, "I have been accused of many things by very angry people who misconstrue my political views as crimes against their god, or the words of a scientist-therefore-heretic. I don't feel safe in my own home, with my postal address, phone numbers and email addresses known to almost everyone, in real life."
The blog also quoted GigaOm's article by Matthew Ingram, "Many people believe that requiring real names will solve the problems of trolls and bad behavior, but they don’t -- and that policy can have negative consequences in terms of suppressing dialogue about important topics."
Do you think killing online anonymity will solve all the problems without creating any addition -- and greater -- problems?
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