One of the great features of the internet is the fact that you can remain anonymous under a username if you want to. I, personally, have never chosen to use a u

One of the great features of the internet is the fact that you can remain anonymous under a username if you want to. I, personally, have never chosen to use a username that is not identifiable with me--but I realize there are people out there that want to (or need to) remain anonymous, especially if they post content (comments or even other content). That's one of the great features of the internet itself, and honestly it's a shame that certain companies like Google wants to force using our real names on everyone. It does make sense, though, that if a company such as Google owns multiple services or sites, they would want users to use the same accounts across multiple platforms. However, I don't see why you can't use different usernames or personas across multiple services: just log in using one account, but use several different public usernames (if you want to do that) across different sites.