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> Call verification is used by many services to establish ownership of an account, and to provide a fallback mechanism that automates the recovery of an account

> Call verification is used by many services to establish ownership of an account, and to provide a fallback mechanism that automates the recovery of an account. Google likes to automate the shit out of things. This is no different. I've been using the internet for well over a decade now. The number of services I've signed up for must be in the hundreds. I've never had to verify my identity unless a monetary transaction has been carried out, and then it's to my bank rather than the merchant. Nothing I get from Google+ needs any confirmation of my real identity.

kordless 13y ago
> Nothing I get from Google+ needs any confirmation of my real identity. Now we're getting to the nut of the real argument.
- css771 13y ago
  I think the problem comes from the fact of treating Google+ like any other social network like Facebook. Google+ is supposed to be an identity layer for all of Google. The fact that they have status update posting, etc is secondary. Google would like to assign a face, name and phone number to every Google account. And why is that? For various reasons. A face and a name is very valuable for targeted ads. And a phone number associated with every Google account will help Hangouts. Maybe it will enable sending SMS from the web to any phone and also Voice users can cal from the web from their Google account. Thus, Google achieves their aim of disrupting the carriers and making the phone number irrelevant. That's just the way I see it anyway.
  - sbuk 13y ago
    If that's the case, why not be up front about it?
    - chronic25 13y ago
      Amen.
    - zer0defex 13y ago
      Because saying you're the next OpenID won't allow you to be the next social network sensation à la Facebook.
      - pestaa 13y ago
        Except that OpenID is a distributed protocol, which the Internet should so obviously use for authentication, not FB/G+.
    - saraid216 13y ago
      Has Google ever gotten marketing right?
      - kordless 13y ago
        Seriously. About all they do is branding.

kordless 13y ago

> Nothing I get from Google+ needs any confirmation of my real identity. Now we're getting to the nut of the real argument.

css771 13y ago
I think the problem comes from the fact of treating Google+ like any other social network like Facebook. Google+ is supposed to be an identity layer for all of Google. The fact that they have status update posting, etc is secondary. Google would like to assign a face, name and phone number to every Google account. And why is that? For various reasons. A face and a name is very valuable for targeted ads. And a phone number associated with every Google account will help Hangouts. Maybe it will enable sending SMS from the web to any phone and also Voice users can cal from the web from their Google account. Thus, Google achieves their aim of disrupting the carriers and making the phone number irrelevant. That's just the way I see it anyway.
- sbuk 13y ago
  If that's the case, why not be up front about it?
  - chronic25 13y ago
    Amen.
  - zer0defex 13y ago
    Because saying you're the next OpenID won't allow you to be the next social network sensation à la Facebook.
    - pestaa 13y ago
      Except that OpenID is a distributed protocol, which the Internet should so obviously use for authentication, not FB/G+.
  - saraid216 13y ago
    Has Google ever gotten marketing right?
    - kordless 13y ago
      Seriously. About all they do is branding.