the most disturbing part of 2015 twitter is all the people who switched to face avatars. if i wanted to look at faces i'd go to facebook
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Visible face = more engagements. Yeah it does discriminate against those of us without faces.
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me when making a joke and it has a much more mundane reading that didn't occur to me.
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On a serious note, google actively encourages people to post their faces to g+ because "search results with faces get more hits"
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fuck literally anyone with a "real name" or "real face" or whatever policy, up to and including governments
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The only people who see my legal name are certain friends and entities that pay me money that they have to file paperwork for.
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also you're probably familiar with that but "real name" already frames the debate, as if the state given name were any more real
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