In the few days ago, there was an article about Facebook is ready to launch anonymity application plan. In the article, it said, Facebook will allow you to be yourself, but under a different name. It is the first step of Facebook’s innovation. Obviously, Facebook trys to be different with other internet products, in order to appeal to all kinds of users. One of the important new featrures of Facebook is that it allows anonymous online conversations start. Actually, this feature is similar as many other conversation websites, such as “talk to strangers”. People can talk to anyone they never know each other before anonymously. According to my own experience, anonymous online conversation is very annoying sometimes, however, sometimes it is a good tool to kill spare time. But, most of time the conversation with stranger is extremely short and always limited in “Hi” and “How are you”. Even, the stranger just send you rude and despicable words without any reasons. On this aspect, it would be quite hard for Facebook to control the privacy and human norms.
Nevertheless, many people believe that there will be many benefits from not using the real name. First, concerning with revenue, Facebook needs to invest more capital on real name websites. Anonymity website reduce their operation costs inverse. Second, people could talk more freedom on internet, which would increase the content richness and stimulate more creative ideas. But, it also brings a lot of potential problems for anonymity Facebook application. Due to in the past years, Facebook had used its real-name policy to prohibit abuse and pollution. And, now it is unclear for us to know how Facebook would active in order to protect users from spams. What’s more, real name website indeed reduce the cyber criminals.
Will you use Facebook anonymity application after it is launched? Why are you going to use it? What other features or functions do you expect to have on Facebook?
Sources：
www.cnbc.com/id/102067262
http://www.omegle.com/
http://tech.sina.com.cn/z/nimingshejiao/
http://wenku.baidu.com/link?url=LlghkCB0Ot0ppHtbsq2Xig_B4uoJI8Pu77QE77WYUfE2f8cRpqUxS7BIetmbsl1Or0x2-fLItRM0K6ZRFK8tyt8VWDXqfsBg7rIscF6Fr8G
I think the idea of being anonym isn’t really the main goal of Facebook. Creating a social network, means that you know everyone and that they can help you. Well, helping each other is a possibility which this new feature provides, but the idea of not knowing anyone and the inability to trust totally on someone is disappearing if these new features are coming through.