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[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

Please do not post people's real names without their permission here

I moved the 3 posts identifying TS4Ms members' real names on Facebook to the admin forum, due to privacy concerns. If people on Facebook want to reveal their TS4ms names there, they can do that, but I do not think it's prudent to reveal their real names here for all to see as this is an open forum.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

I can't agree with you more. I wonder why Twitter or Facebook makes you post your real name there rather than by screen or user name only?

I already deleted myself from Twitter because I got several requests from people wanting to follow me and I had no idea who they were. I didn't like it and was dumb enough to click on their link and saw some strange web sites. The article I posted yesterday wrote about this problem that you cannot see the links where they take you to so it made me feel even more uncomfortable.

Please, be careful.

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

I'm confused....Now that facebook is allowing user names, can you change from your real name to your user name?

[Sydney Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close Sydney]

I'm confused....Now that facebook is allowing user names, can you change from your real name to your user name?

Personally, I think it's just become a lot easier for people to find out about personal info about you. There goes your anonymity.

The way around this would be to make sure you have very strong Facebook security options set, e.g. you can make it so people can not even search for you.

You still need to use your real name in Facebook but if you have a user name, people can easily locate you instead of searching through the 300 or so John Smith.

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

Personally, I think it's just become a lot easier for people to find out about personal info you. There's goes your anonymity.

The way around this would be to make sure you have very strong Facebook security options set, e.g. you can make it so people can not even search for you.

You still need to use your real name in Facebook but if you have a user name, people can easily locate you instead of searching through the 300 or so John Smith.

OK, thanks Sydney. I'm going to go and take another look at my security settings.