{"id":9654,"date":"2011-03-16T20:48:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/4chan-founder-zuckerberg-is-totally-wrong-about\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T20:48:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:48:33","slug":"4chan-founder-zuckerberg-is-totally-wrong-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/4chan-founder-zuckerberg-is-totally-wrong-about\/","title":{"rendered":"4chan founder: Zuckerberg is \u201ctotally wrong\u201d about online identity | VentureBeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

4chan founder: Zuckerberg is \u201ctotally wrong\u201d about online identity | VentureBeat<\/a><\/p>\n

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kenyatta<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Poole argued that anonymity allows users to reveal themselves in a \u201ccompletely unvarnished, unfiltered, raw way.\u201d One of the things that\u2019s lost when you carry the same identity everywhere is \u201cthe innocence of youth.\u201d (\u201cInnocence\u201d isn\u2019t the first word that would come to mind when I think of 4chan, but okay, I\u2019ll go with him here.) In other words, when everyone knows everything you\u2019ve done online, you\u2019re a lot more worried about screwing up, and you\u2019re less willing to experiment. Poole compared this to being a kid, moving to a new neighborhood, and having the opportunity to start over. On the Internet, you don\u2019t get that opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cost of failure is really high when you\u2019re contributing as yourself,\u201d Poole said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s an interesting argument, one I had not thought of. At MinnPost.com<\/a> (where I work) we require you to register to comment with your real name. We also moderate all comments which helps cut down on the character attacks (and more), but I believe that people think twice if they have to personally own a comment.<\/p>\n

Poole’s statement doesn’t change my mind about that, but makes me think there could also be specific environments online to spur anonymous creativity and brainstorming. I’m unsure if there is a space for that on MinnPost.com, but I’m thinking about it. Could one website have different participation requirements depending on the arena? Like: Comments on articles: Use real names; Open anonymous discussions on how a specific policy should change. Hmmmmm….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4chan founder: Zuckerberg is \u201ctotally wrong\u201d about online identity | VentureBeat kenyatta: Poole argued that anonymity allows users to reveal themselves in a \u201ccompletely unvarnished, unfiltered, raw way.\u201d One of the things that\u2019s lost when you carry the same identity everywhere is \u201cthe innocence of youth.\u201d (\u201cInnocence\u201d isn\u2019t the first word that would come to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2604,290],"class_list":["post-9654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comments","tag-journalism","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugshotmonday.com\/site2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}