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So the short answer is: If you don't want to use your real name on their thing that requires real names, you don't have to use their thing that requires real n
by jasonkester 15y ago
So the short answer is: If you don't want to use your real name on their thing that requires real names, you don't have to use their thing that requires real names. And you can back out of it in such a way that the rest of your Google universe is unaffected.
Sounds perfectly reasonable.
- darklajid 15y agoYes, in terms of absolutes this is right: You can avoid it (they are not forcing it down your throat to use other services) and even can get out again. Still, it's not perfectly reasonable for a number of people to insist on the real name in the first place. Is one potential answer 'Don't use it then'? Sure. Is that satisfying? No.
- masklinn 15y agoThere are two issues with this: * People have seen their G+ account restribanned while using their real names, with the restriban not lifted even after providing a governmental id, which was deemed insufficient * When a significant portion of your ecosystem is moving to G+ (as is happening in the Python community for instance, many high-profile pythonistas now make significant use of G+ for info broadcasting and discussion) not being able to interact with them gets annoying, if not downright problematic