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What's the minimum public Google profile one is required to have? So far, I've avoided having a public Google profile.

• rufibarbatus 15y ago
  Name and gender. Then again, Google doesn't seem to require you to use your legal name, like Facebook does.
  • pasbesoin 15y ago
    Ha. Re pseudonyms, I just realized the problem I'm beginning to face; Multiple Persona Disorder. ;-) (If today is Tuesday, I must be...) Seriously, though, that is a plus, if it is reasonably defensible within the Google ecosystem. I'm an "opt in" kind of guy (there goes the gender anonymity); that includes personally identifiable information. Over the years, I've seen a lot of quite productive and meaningful communication that's been facilitated, or entirely enabled, by selective anonymity. Online. And "in real life". You can have a conversation with a stranger in a cafe, without proffering so much as a first name. People should have the same ability online. I've known some people (in real life) for months at a time on such a basis, e.g. in a particular venue, and gotten to know them fairly well. Selective anonymity is not a new feature, or "aberration", created by the internet, and its value as an element/feature in society is in my mind long-standing and well demonstrated.