Gmail used to be the easiest way to set up a spamcatcher email account for simple anonymity. Now their user authentication and real name policies have made that

Gmail used to be the easiest way to set up a spamcatcher email account for simple anonymity. Now their user authentication and real name policies have made that harder. It's easy to throwaway an old single-purpose Gmail account. But it's very very hard to walk away from your social network account that has all of your friends and followers connected to it. Targeted ads were small potatoes, I believe the top social networks are seeking to be society's future arbiters of identity. But do they have a good plan to monetize this identity provider business? That, I don't know.