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The Queen recently 'embraced' the new information age by officially sending her first tweet. 

It came with great reception, and obviously some jokers took advantage of twitter's anonymous feature. 

A lot of silliness ensued including users asking for personal follows and her opinion on this week's X-factor results.

I would say this is harmless fun, and adds to the beauty of twitter's platform. 

But, trolling also arose, with users telling to her abdicate and a few other things I'm not going to mention. 

So how do we approach these symptoms of anonymous platforms on the internet? Do we police or do we accept and move on?

Special thanks to close friend, Joe Clarke for his source! website up soon: www.joeclarke.me (I felt a bit guilty about not citing him). 

Named or nameless?

Comment platforms either use a real name profile or a pseudonym.

Users that use their real profile are held accountable by their reputation - they're more likely to give better comments.

Pseudonyms mask identity, so it's so easy to be offensive with no punishment. Evidently there are people who abuse this.

I argue that we should use a hybrid. By default that users should use a real profile, but give them the option to be anonymous. Just control the number of times they can comment anonymously!

Quora does this pretty well.

To end, a quote from Oscar Wilde:

A man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.