[grasshoper]

I think you really need to understand that there are people who use Facebook in a very different way from how you use it. There are those who, like you, don't care about their account. They have no personal information on there. They made it just for the sake of having a Facebook account, so they could feel as though they were participating in social networking. These people are fine using Connect because they have no investment in Facebook. To them, it's really no different than a scarcely used email account.

For others, Facebook is a very strong online representation of their actual real-life identity. They joined when they entered college. It became THE platform for staying in touch with friends from home and new friends on campus. Photos on Facebook catalog their entire lives from that point onward. They have literally more on Facebook than they do off of it.

Asking these types users to Connect with Facebook is no different than asking them to login to sites with real information only. It's akin to requiring HN posters to use real names for usernames, real contact info, include real pictures in their accounts, etc. This is something the vast majority of HN would not accept.

Quora wants to be a QA service where every account is linked to something real. That's how they intend to deliver a quality product. That's what makes them different from other QA sites. This obviously slows their growth, but they need to do this to make their site worth anything. Eventually, they will try to convince more and more Facebook users that it's okay to reveal themselves on Quora. Until then, we will just make the Facebook-account-equivalent of spam-only e-mail accounts, and use those for sites like Quora.