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No, I think it's that real names are bad for privacy, but friends can find you more easily using your real name. Google+ doesn't suffer much if you damage your
by wisty 15y ago
No, I think it's that real names are bad for privacy, but friends can find you more easily using your real name. Google+ doesn't suffer much if you damage your career using a real name, but it does suffer if your friends don't find you and so you go back to facebook.
- cookiecaper 15y agoGoogle could easily promote and encourage real names a la Facebook and still let pseudonymous profiles slide. I think that the typical first/last name convention is good, and that it'd be fine to require pseudonyms that follow that convention.
- rimantas 15y agoPosting things you want to keep private on the internet is bad for privacy. Real neames are not.
- sesqu 15y agoPrivacy is about as binary as security - that is, not at all.
- gte910h 15y agoPeople who aren't friends can too, and you can't exactly coyly avoid people in many forums.
- dws 15y agoFriends can find you more easily using your real name? Try that if you have a very common name. There are over 80 pages of G+ results to sort through if you have mine, and I have it easy. Friends with common Chinese or Indian names have it a lot worse.