I was hit with this pop-up yesterday. I Alt-f4'ed out of there for some reason... I get jumpy when things ask me for my real name, especially when it's the internet itself.

Skynet is young right now. *gives Skynet a baby bottle*

prepare for internet bullying to increase.

make a joke in the youtube comments that someone will find offensive (coz not everybody is light hearted or knows a joke when they read one) and thats it, they will track you down and harass the shit out of you.

but then again, i can always be Johnny Bravo :D huh huh huh

why you don't want to put your name? are you ashamed of your self?

why are using the alias GRAP and not your real name?

Please provide the following:

Your full name
Your full address
Your email address
You phone number

Or are you ashamed of your self?

on youtube i use my full name if you want my Chanel you are more than welcome in N4G they didn't say type your name if it's mandatory i will type it.

tracking you down, stealin' your cookies.

Grap whats your channel?

Please post so I can subscribe.

I onced used my real name playing left 4 dead. I beat someone so bad he got mad that i laughed at him getting destroyed. He tracked down my name on the internet and found my cellphone number and called me up threatening me.

The internet would be a lot scarier place if everyone knew who i was at all times.

Grap, u should never give out your info on the internet. You are both gullable and nieve if you think u have no reason too. It can get used against you one day. Espeacially when they start tracking what kind of porn you've been lookn at. lol. Actually google already does that if your logged in.

What about your school tests? You put t3mpl3ton on your papers?

Actually, that'd be pretty badass...

Its quite easy really, its to profile you and watch you. Same with homeland security and Facebook. Makes the CIA's job a lot easier.

Really thats scary so it isnt Zuckerberg who owns Facebbok afterall. I thought there was a movie called facebook about how Zuckerberg created it?

He did create it, but not for the reasons people think.

the thing is that after receiving that pop up about your real name, you cant reply to other people's comments.....

at least it happened to me, idk about anyone else.

Did you choose "I do not want to use my real name"? It should just go back to normal.

yeah i chose i didnt wanted to because of personal reasons

[running out of bubbles] ill go ahead and try to put my real name to see if this can be fixed, ill report back when i do

Strange. If you do get forced to choose your real name though, go back into the YouTube settings from the menu drop down and revert it from there. that's what I did and Im back to normal.

i have thesame problem as you, for some reason i cant reply to other comments as well. I will have to try a different browser to see if thats the reason

haly crap man, i changed it to use my real name and i was able to reply to other people's comments, as soon as i changed it back to my username i couldnt reply to comments at all!!!

WE ARE BEING FORCED TO USE OUR REAL NAMES ON YOUTUBE!!

LOL...weird...empty your cache or relogin or something. Works fine for me again :|