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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I disagree. I have complete anonymity here. People that I went to high school cannot find me by my username. Its the difference between chosing to put your real name out there, which some users have done here, and it being a requisite for admission on places like facebook.
This place is very social, and some people do eventually meet up, but it is not for networking in the sense that a place like FB is. FB was designed for real people (i.e. using real names) to promote themselves to other real people who are as apt to meet or to have known one another outside the internet.
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Ah, but you don't have to put your real name into Facebook as a requisite. I didn't, the first time, I put my username on most digital scrapbooking boards on it; because at the time, that's who asked me to get on Facebook. I know people who have joined ONLY to play the games and they have names like "Anna Nimity".
Chris is right. Both MR and Facebook fit in the definition of "social networking" It's just that one is driven by interests (MR) and the other is driven by who you know (FB). Same thing, different ends of the spectrum.