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Facebook's userbase is so large, many users are functionally anonymous.

Before online communities, most people interacted in social circles small enough that their identity actually meant something to the other participants.

But on widely circulated/public posts on facebook, the audience is so large, that "John Doe from Indiana" might as well be anonymous.



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