On CBC Radio One there was a good discussion of how people use different names or characters in their everyday life.
You may be know as Bob to your mother, B-man to your friends and rocketBoy55 online. Your demeanor is different depending on the situation, you wouldn't act or talk towards your mom like you do when you are online as RocketBoy55 or vice versa.
It's unreasonable to expect people to act the same all the time and go by the same description in all areas of their life.
That's true, though I always look essentially the same; my visual image is a sort of a "name".
(OK, yeah, I might wear different clothes in different circumstances. And some of us use makeup which makes even our face look a bit different.)
I guess I'm trying to say that I'm OK[1] with there being a place (Facebook) that requires real names while there are places (Twitter, most of the rest of the web) that don't. Different requirements for different contexts lead to different tones and different conversations.
Anyway, this is all a bit beside the point of this post, which seems to just be about an overzealous FB employee demanding a famous person (that presumably they didn't recognize) had to use the name on his ID.
[1] Yes, I'm privileged and have a standard Western-style name and nobody dangerous stalking me that I need to hide from, etc etc.
You may be know as Bob to your mother, B-man to your friends and rocketBoy55 online. Your demeanor is different depending on the situation, you wouldn't act or talk towards your mom like you do when you are online as RocketBoy55 or vice versa.
It's unreasonable to expect people to act the same all the time and go by the same description in all areas of their life.