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Real Name Social Networking Services and Risks of Digital Identity

Can We Manage Our Digital Identity?

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This chapter examines the social influence of Social Networking Services (SNS) which encourage users to reveal their real names, and considers user ability to manage their digital identity. Various issues related to using real name SNS are described and in particular, the subsequent dilemma stakeholders face, and avenues for how to ameliorate these concerns, are outlined.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The recently Megaupload debacle has had a huge impact on legal ramifications.

  2. 2.

    For example, the international manager of Facebook explained that Facebook enables the users to construct a reliable relationship with other users using a real name system (see, http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/135/135542/).

  3. 3.

    This word is coined by Clark (1988).

  4. 4.

    See, http://www.internetworldstats.com/facebook.htm.

  5. 5.

    See, Facebook giveth, Facebook taketh away (http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/facebook-giveth-facebook-taketh-away/2007/10/29/1193555573838.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1).

  6. 6.

    See, Trend micro survey (http://jp.trendmicro.com/jp/about/news/pr/article/20120410035738.html), and New York Times (Spring Break Gets Tamer as World Watches Online, www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us/spring-break-gets-tamer-as-world-watches-online.html?_r=2&src=recg).

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This study was supported by the Strategic research foundation at private universities and Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) 24730320, from MEXT (the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), Japan.

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    Yohko Orito

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Orito, Y. (2013). Real Name Social Networking Services and Risks of Digital Identity. In: Uesugi, S. (eds) IT Enabled Services. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1425-4_13

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