Do you have a Facebook account?

Conisdering whiplash got first post I'm guessing he voted. that means he uses FB with his real name, 'cause it was the other 50% of the two votes when I voted.

I sign in using Cowboy Neal's account to play those nifty games I keep hearing about!

You would never have just a single set of car keys. What if you lose them? A spare makes so much sense.
The same applies to a credit card, or even bank accounts - there is no reason to have all your metaphorical eggs in a single basket.

So it is, or should be, with social media. Since there is no, present or future, way to ensure one name (or identity) maps to one person in the whole world there is no reason to

I signed up my unique name on Facebook to protect it from being registered by someone else pretending to be me. I have 0 friends (on purpose) and never use the account.

It is the only place where family and friend's gather online to share photos of their families. I try my best to keep privacy filters set to keep everything I post private. Unfortunately, my brother and his friends are of the ilk that post one-sided sensationalized news stories and "post this bullshit about faith/friends to see who responds" type of crap. Sigh. The only thing that has gotten better over time has been the reduction of Zynga spam.

There's no option to use both :)

I recall setting up a Facebook account, looking around and deciding it was a waste of time. Pretty sure I used a pseudonym, but I haven't logged on in years.

I basically only use Facebook to keep track of events (koncerts, musik quizzes, that sort of thing).

I don't participate in any games or online "which Harry Potter character are you?"-type quizzes, and I aggressively hide everything even remotely relates to those things or anything that smells even vaguely like clickbait.

I can't imagine what goes through the heads of people who subscribe to pictures of scantily clad ladies or air strong political political opinions on Facebook, especially not under their own

Not using your real name is futile. It's likely easily extraced from the Facebook dataset, even if you don't have an account, so not having an account is futile too. The question is not whether you have an account, the question is whether your friends and family are going to upload pictures and mail/phone addressbooks that include you. Don't worry, most of them will.

Whether or not FB is a privacy-breaching metadata collector (it is, just like Google), if you "don't have a Facebook account" the first question will be "why not?" in my circle. As in: what are you trying to hide.

It's fine to not go on often -- people do their own things whenever -- but not having an account is weird and vaguely suspicious. I can count the number my friends who've never had an account at all on one hand.

The only question is if you have an account that you created (which hopefully you have some control over) and if you have an account harvested from your friends on FB sharing their contact lists and whatnot.

I only have a Facebook account to be able to manage my bands FB and reverbnation pages.

If it wasn't for that, I would have left FB long ago.

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I ditched Facebook, it was a nice piece of groupware for consumers but the content has shifted to clickbait and nonsense. Also, Messenger turned into MSN/Myspace. Still use Whatsapp though. That said, when I used it, I tend to go for real name more these days than before. I'm all for anonimity where required and privacy where desired, but most of my internet presence doesn't require a pseudonym and there are actually benefits as well in using a real name: I controla far larger share of the information avail