That is all well and good, I hope you can realize that the vast majority of people were not part of the C64 demo scene, and the vast majority of people meet new

That is all well and good, I hope you can realize that the vast majority of people were not part of the C64 demo scene, and the vast majority of people meet new people strictly in meatspace (except perhaps online dating, which is for the purpose of meeting people in meetspace). To say that a website with even 40 million users should be catering to the extremely tiny (and apparently extremely vocal) minority of people who want to share things with people without sharing their name with those people is egotistical at best. I honestly think that it is you don't understand that you are almost certainly in the minuscule minority of people who have a pseudonymous social graph, and that it is only to the detriment of most people to have screennames instead of real names on a social network. I honestly believe there are more blind Americans then people who have any significant portion of their social graph as pseudonymous, you are acting it's absurd that Google isn't catering to the C64 demo scene. There are probably dozens of design choices that are preventing blind people from using Google+ how they would want it, but somehow that isn't making front page news, why not? > We don't carry around giant posters with a bunch of personal information tied to our full name. And on Google+ you get to choose who can see any part of your profile except for your name. There is no giant poster of personal information that is public unless that is exactly what you choose that you want. > Conversely many people very intentionally do not want to be searchable. On both facebook and Google+ you can set yourself not to be searchable in general; that is a completely different issue that being able to find someon you personally know among the list of your friends, or seeing a comment on one of your posts and having no idea who it is because the person is going by a completely random noun rather than what you actually call them.