Facebook Product Manager Josh Miller Responds to Report on Anonymous App

While Facebook has stuck with its policy of requiring its users’ real names, co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned in a January cover story for Bloomberg Businessweek that the social network would not require real names for the separate, stand-alone applications it was developing. Evidence of this policy shift may rear its head in the next few weeks, according to The New York TimesBits blog.

QuestionMarkWoman650While Facebook has stuck with its policy of requiring its users’ real names, co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned in a January cover story for Bloomberg Businessweek that the social network would not require real names for the separate, stand-alone applications it was developing. Evidence of this policy shift may rear its head in the next few weeks, according to The New York TimesBits blog.

Bits reported that two people familiar with Facebook’s plans said the social network will release a stand-alone mobile app in the coming weeks, telling Bits the goal was to allow Facebook users to openly discuss subjects they might not be comfortable addressing while using their real names.

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