And oddly enough, a website I follow posted a brief collection of reasons today: <a href="http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/why-online-real-names-policies-are-wrong/">http://www.disinfo.com/2011/08/why-online-real-names-policies-are-wrong/</a> I use an anonymous handle here, on Goodreads, on Google, everywhere but Facebook (where I have mainly family and RL friends in addition to the handful of internet friends, including those from hootoo, who have given me no reason not to trust th