Comment Re:"Real" names are not unique (Score 1) 476
Understood Steve. Part of my hopes is that something better than the 'I'm 18' button comes out soon.
When we found my son's myspace account, he was 11 with 18 listed for the age and questionable quality material, mostly profanity and explicit lyrics on the site. We forced him to update it with correct info and clean it up.
We recently found his Facebook page. He wouldn't be able to access half the stuff he does if he was required to supply verifiable info. (yes he accesses the internet outside of the house as well) I use OpenDNS to block most of it at home.
My hope for real name concept is that a parent would be able to reasonably track their kids activities and like the original reply stated, a good portion of the stupidity we find on line would stop because people would be afraid to be associated with the crap they type. A dream yes, but it's a nice one. lol
Thanks for the reply,
Raum