Facebook was made large by the fact that you can find people you used to know, or haven&#x27;t spoken to in a while, or aren&#x27;t that close to.<p>You can find anyone, it&#x27;s easy.<p>Removing the real names policy does away with that, and I would say seriously threaten&#x27;s facebook&#x27;s business&#x2F;growth&#x2F;future. If you don&#x27;t know your old girlfriend or your cousin or your highschool bandmate&#x27;s username, how are you going to get in touch with them?<p>I&#x27;m not saying that&#x27;s a bad thing, or that I think facebook should have real names, but I&#x27;m saying that I seriously doubt they are going to change that policy because it&#x27;d cost them too much in the long term.<p>EDIT: People, I understand the arguments against real names. Facebook&#x27;s counterargument is money. Which argument do you think they support and will listen to?<p>Downvoting me is crass, I&#x27;m not even stating a position, I&#x27;m just stating the obvious reasons for Facebook&#x27;s continuing denial of a chosen-name policy.