What to Facebook is a 'fake name' may be the expression of your authentic self

Some online companies insist on ‘real names’ but there are good reasons why users – especially the vulnerable – might prefer not to use their legal identity“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Thus reads the caption of a now-infamous cartoon by Peter Steiner in the New Yorker, capturing the zeitgeist of the early internet.This culture of relative anonymity led to the feeling, for many, that what took place online was somehow separate from reality. Online, you could use any