You are one of the few on this site who uses their real names in full. Neville is the same. I just use my company name but clicking me gets my name. Not everyone here follows the same idea.
The other issue is imagine you are called John Smith, or jean Pierre dupont (comment english or french names) how do you identify one over another. And stop duplicates. Try just getting a new email on Google mail there are just so many the same hence Paul12345@ etc.
But in principal I agree, not sure how it could be done. Plus how do you check its really your name and not identity theft
I’d say that that’s a problem for governments and the social media services to solve, but one method may be to require enough personal information so your identity can be verified, maybe Name, Address, and perhaps the last four digits of your social security number (if you live in the US), or perhaps your driver’s license/state ID (again if living in the US), or similar documentation for other countries.
Not that difficult. The sex sites now are controlled for age vérification (not that I use them) they rolled out the technology in france about 12 months back, so being interested in how and if, I tried a sex site but a barrier came up asking for âge proof. Which I did not provide so it would not let me in. I am not sure if that is the same throughout it was just a interest test.
I taught computing in a hospital in the UK, we had a problem with visits on the internet to unsuitable sites. We installed a firewall to stop access. Great. Tried play-boy-dot-com and the firewall triggered when running a course. But they were nursing staff (girls) they said we dont want to look at naked girls…. Hence playgirl-dot-com that worked. This was in the middle of my demo. Opps. But then next time it was blocked. But then did urology nurses and they needed access to other sites on sexualité very difficult to block some and let others through using a firewall ok, but someone needs to test all options. At one stage if you miss types Google you got a sex site ! Think that has gone now.
Banks do it, quite successfully. I cant open a bank account in a fictitious name. I have trouble doing things in my wife’s name.
If banks can do it, social media sites can.
Classic example.
We have the same problem today with cigarettes… they are effectively prohibited with a huge tax, but that led to a thriving illegal tobacco business., and an alternative product (vapes) that is probably more harmful.
I do feel that the law needs to delineate what is good or right. Decriminalising something by discarding laws does not help, it sends a wrong message. It is better to have the law even if it cant be policed.
Dont want to change direction, but I do hope there is a ban on vapes next. Our association president insists they are ok and will use his during a meeting, at which point I open the window or just move if we are outside, tried asking him to stop but failed. I imagine in a few years they will discover the harm like they did with skol bandits the gum.
I hate smoke, and hated since forever…
Long ago in my youth -something 30 years ago- I worked in a building, in which more than 50% of the other people were smokers. Not a big deal as I had my own room (office?), and theoretically could keep smoke outside… but anyone who came in, did not drop his cigarette before, so it was still emitting smoke while talking with me…
Asking politely to leave it outside did not always succeed.
I liked the citations very much from Murphy’s laws, and I also had a book of a graffity collection, in that there were funny sentences too. I grabbed one:
“If you won’t smoke, I won’t fart”
Printed it on an A4 page, and stuck it on the wall like a poster in my room, right in front of the door.
Guess, it was very successful! After 2 weeks noone came in with cigarette in his mouth/hand, and I remember I was surprised how effective that sentence was.
Smokers first smiled, later did not bring their smelly stick inside at all.
And I didn’t even have to fart really!
Maybe you could borrow and adapt that sentence in a way?
