YouTube Pushing Users To Use Real Names?

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Could you imagine if everyone was forced to use their real names on YouTube? It's hard to see anything like this working, it's not like trolls will voluntarily start using their full names on YouTube.

YouTube is making it harder for users who post negative and hurtful comments on videos to hide behind the site’s anonymity. The video-sharing site is urging users to start using their full name when commenting and uploading clips. Instead of displaying a pen name linked to the YouTube account, the company wants to link to the user’s full name and picture used on their Google+ account.
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Yeah when I was leaving a comment it wanted to me to switch over to using my real name.

It's annoying, but you can bitch slap youtube into letting you use your good ol' youtube username still.
 
My real name isn't my real name so I switched to using my not real real name.
 
Who in their right mind would give Creepy Uncle Google their real name in the first place?
 
As long as it's just first name I don't have a problem with that. Asking for someone's full name is just asking for trouble. Can you imagine someone posting controversial events like Syrian government lining people up and executing them, but the guy who caught the event on his phone was forced to use his real name when putting it on YouTube for the world to see? Yeah that's not going to end well for the guy.
 
As if trolls can't just create new accounts. All it does is strip the legitimate "good guy" users of their privacy while the trolls keep trolling. Stupid idea.
 
I don't have a Google+ account, and I'm not going to get one so that I can comment on videos.
 
My name is John Smith, Glad to meetya...

I mean seriously. Or.. is my name George Bush? Elton John? What would stop me from building a persona saying my name is Madonna? If 50 people did that, would each of them have to sue the various people using their name? Or just be someone like "Rosy Anosepickin"??

Or, to put it simply, it will still be easy to remain anonymous and this is a dumb idea.. not stupid, just dumb. It will keep the honest people honest and the dishonest won't give a damn.

Kind of like gun legislation or any of a number of other things...
 
I'd ask who wastes time commenting on random youtube videos, but I guess it's a large number.
 
I deleted my Youtube account when they wouldn't let me log in without creating a gmail.
 
Azhar said:
Whoa big guy, we can't have AnonymousUser in here. Use your real name or GTFO.
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I was kidding about the name Bruce Wayne but seriously, AnonymousUser is my real name. It's actually Anonymous F**king User but people just call me AnonymousUser for short.
 
Why shouldn't people use their real names? If people are forced to use their real names, then people on the internet will generally be more sensible, intelligent, and mature. After all, it is said that the worst of people come out on the internet since they can hide behind aliases.
 
AnonymousUser said:
I was kidding about the name Bruce Wayne but seriously, AnonymousUser is my real name. It's actually Anonymous F**king User but people just call me AnonymousUser for short.
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haha

Azhar was my Muslim name when I converted to be with my girlfriend in Singapore for 7 years. I liked the name, so I used it here. So technically, it's my real name too, if only for a little while.
 
aronesz said:
Why shouldn't people use their real names? If people are forced to use their real names, then people on the internet will generally be more sensible, intelligent, and mature. After all, it is said that the worst of people come out on the internet since they can hide behind aliases.
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Better they let it out on the internet than in real life.
 
aronesz said:
Why shouldn't people use their real names? If people are forced to use their real names, then people on the internet will generally be more sensible, intelligent, and mature. After all, it is said that the worst of people come out on the internet since they can hide behind aliases.
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See my post #6.
 
This what Mr Google probably looks like: -

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Real names. Really...

In a system where "ZippyTheFreakinPinheadOnDrugsSippingWineInBogata" is in use, how the hell are they ever gonna use real names.

Never, ever gonna happen. It will be the end of Cat Video's.
 
aronesz said:
Why shouldn't people use their real names? If people are forced to use their real names, then people on the internet will generally be more sensible, intelligent, and mature. After all, it is said that the worst of people come out on the internet since they can hide behind aliases.
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I'm on a system that forces the use of real names (iRacing). You have no idea how wrong you are.
 
"Minutes after users were forced to use their real names, there were suddenly records of 30,000 people named 'Ben Dover' registered"
 
aronesz said:
Why shouldn't people use their real names? If people are forced to use their real names, then people on the internet will generally be more sensible, intelligent, and mature. After all, it is said that the worst of people come out on the internet since they can hide behind aliases.
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Indeed. Ever since people have had to use their names in real life, I noticed that there is no more violent crime, theft, hit-and-runs, road rage, insider trading, scam artists or even lying. Everyone lives in perfect harmony because jerks magically turn into saints when they have a name.

Life is great!
 
aronesz said:
Why shouldn't people use their real names? If people are forced to use their real names, then people on the internet will generally be more sensible, intelligent, and mature. After all, it is said that the worst of people come out on the internet since they can hide behind aliases.
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aronesz said:
Why shouldn't people use their real names? If people are forced to use their real names, then people on the internet will generally be more sensible, intelligent, and mature. After all, it is said that the worst of people come out on the internet since they can hide behind aliases.
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That is a good idea! You go first by posting your real name, home address, credit card number, phone number, mother's madien name, and social security number. Surely that will embolden the rest of us to follow along and do the same, Mister Aronesz (which I'm sure is your real name, eh?)
 
This would just make it easier for predators to target people. It's already too easy to find out where someone lives with Google.
 
LeninGHOLA said:
This would just make it easier for predators to target people. It's already too easy to find out where someone lives with Google.
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That's a good point, also with abusive, psychotic a$$holes that try to stalk their exes and stuff like that.
 
ballistic90 said:
That's a good point, also with abusive, psychotic a$$holes that try to stalk their exes and stuff like that.
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It's not psychotic until a mental health professional formally documents a diagnosis. That cheater totally deserved it anyway. Now get out of my head dammit! >.<
 
SkribbelKat said:
That is a good idea! You go first by posting your real name, home address, credit card number, phone number, mother's madien name, and social security number. Surely that will embolden the rest of us to follow along and do the same, Mister Aronesz (which I'm sure is your real name, eh?)
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People do almost all that already, it's called facebook.

Google just wants their site to be the number one, one stop search site for all criminal activities. Not only will you be able to get all their personal information, but their likes, dislikes, videos of their personal property and directions to their homes.
 
LurkerLito said:
People do almost all that already, it's called facebook.

Google just wants their site to be the number one, one stop search site for all criminal activities. Not only will you be able to get all their personal information, but their likes, dislikes, videos of their personal property and directions to their homes.
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This. Don't forget all of those videos you're going to upload showing that you are on vacation and that no one is at home!
 
You know what's even better? Someone on another forum posted this link right from Google:

http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=126263

Quick Tips:

Never post things like your name, phone number or where you live.

Prevent privacy trouble before it starts. Once your privacy has been compromised, you might not be able to undo the damage.

If you come across a video that you think violates your privacy, contact the uploader first and ask them to remove the content.

YouTube employees will never ask you for your password, email address, or other account information. Don't be fooled if someone contacts you pretending to be from YouTube.

Posting someone else's personal information without their permission is a serious violation of our Community Guidelines and could cause you to be banned from YouTube.
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Sly said:
How do you pay for your phone apps?
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Who pays for phone apps? Almost anything I wanted was free and if it wasn't...meh...I lived without.

Then again, that was like a year ago. I wanted to pay my savings account more money so I ended a contract very early and picked up a Tracphone for like ~$5 a month that I never use instead of owning an Android for ~$90 a month that I never used.
 
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