Facebook good for something

[supergee]

Running blog comments through Facebook could alleviate another Internet plague: nameless assholery

Thanx to andrewducker

ETA: As usual, there's a case against Facebook. Thanx to emceeaich for pointing me to it.

Comments

[andrewducker]

It does get rid of one of the factors of the GIFT:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/

[emceeaich]

Sorry, no.

I know you keep harping on about "but just create a fake facebook identity," but that fails because you have to be logged into facebook and sane people do not want their activity across the web tracked by facebook.

The solution to this problem is community management.