Google+ may be the best thing since sliced bread, but you’ll have to use your real name if you want to join the club. Your account could be suspended if you use a fake name like Harvey Wallbanger. [Business Insider]
Google+ may be the best thing since sliced bread, but you’ll have to use your real name if you want to join the club. Your account could be suspended if you use a fake name like Harvey Wallbanger. [Business Insider]
Anthony
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 7:27 PMHow could Google with over 700 million+ users already joined (including me) monitor this?
Franz
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 7:33 PMMore privacy invasion, google has to let people know what the benefits are of using a real name, but they won’t since they are applying the America Clause.
But next week a guy is sure to change his name to Harvey Wallbanger and kick up a huge fuss.
A guy changed his name to Sony Playstation back in the 90s.
Riley
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 8:53 PMFacebook says real names too but they don’t enforce it.
Wade Boyes
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 11:17 PMWhat happens when two people have exactly the same name?
Jack Cola
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 12:11 AMI’m a bit weary of Google+ at the moment. I don’t know whether to invite only people I know, or open it and communicate with people on the web?
I try to keep the two separate, and with Google+, it may cross that boundary I am not yet willing to take.
Mike
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 9:57 AMThis can only be a good thing.
If you want the name “John TotallyRad4eva Smith” then maybe Google+ isn’t the place for you. I heard MySpace has some room now.
If you’re worried about privacy, then dont use free internet services; you’re the product, you’re account is sold as advertising space based on what you like and write, get over it, no ones peering in your bathroom window. I click like on my friends Bali holiday status update…Facebook shows me ads for flights to Bali. No biggy.
Put your real full name for starters, but not your address and mobile number and blood type and where you like to hide your spare house keys and your basic medical history. The private stuff I see people write on Social Media makes me cringe. They only see what you type in. You can quite comfortably go about using Social Media without losing your privacy, just be smart.