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"'It's important to use your common name,' Google explains in its Google+ ground rules, 'so that the people you want to connect with can find you.' Using a 'secondary online identity,' the search giant adds, is a big Google+ no-no. 'There are lots of places where you can be anonymous online,' Betanews' Joe Wilcox notes. 'Google+ isn't one of them.' Got it. But if online anonymity is so evil, then what's the deal with Google's newly-awarded patent for Social Computing Personas for Protecting Identity in Online Social Interactions?
'When users reveal their identities on the internet,' Google explained to the USPTO in its patent application, 'it leaves them more vulnerable to stalking, identity theft and harassment.' So what's Google's solution? Providing anonymity to social networking users via an 'alter ego' and/or 'anonymous identity.' So does Google now believe that there's a genuine 'risk of disclosing a user's real identity'? Or is this just a case of Google's left hand not knowing what its right hand is patenting?"
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[url]http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/09/18/1839230/google-bans-online-anonymity-while-patenting-it?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=facebook[/url]
What the fuck?
Could they please just close google+ it's a failed attempt of overtaking facebook. Nobody uses it but their services
It wanted to link my g+ account to YouTube and to be quite frank how about it just allows me to rename it instead naming it to my real name
it's time to go g+
We're going to force you to use your real name then give you a second name that we don't like you using: instant patent!
Google what are you doing.
That title is sensationalist as all fuck, they didn't ban "online anonymity", they just discourage using a false name on Google+, which nobody uses anyway.
[QUOTE=M.Ciaster;37722300]That title is sensationalist as all fuck, they didn't ban "online anonymity", they just discourage using a false name on Google+, which nobody uses anyway.[/QUOTE]
Are you kidding me? Tons of people would use Google+ if they allowed false names/nicknames.
A good example is jailbreak developers such as Comex (who need to hide their name or else apple) had their account closed shortly after the first launch and couldn't use it at all.
[QUOTE=usa;37722313]Are you kidding me? Tons of people would use Google+ if they allowed false names/nicknames.
A good example is jailbreak developers such as Comex (who need to hide their name or else apple) had their account closed shortly after the first launch and couldn't use it at all.[/QUOTE]
Such people are a minority.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;37722320]Such people are a minority.[/QUOTE]
Still quite a big minority and it just pisses them off.
And so Google+ has been declared a failure.
.... For some reason i LOVE to narrate things
It annoys me because it replaces my youtube name whenever I comment on videos.
I think google doesn't take no for an answer
If i want my screen-name to be "goatselover69", then my screen-name shall be "goatselover69".
Not even Google shall dictate that.
My real name shall only be known by those persons who's within the driving distance of a half tank of Diesel.
So I can punch them in their crotch.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37722478]> Implying Facebook also do not allow false names on their website.[/QUOTE]
Facebook don't allow them, they are simply too numerous and under reported to be dealt with.
I've seen a lot of fake names on facebook and nobody reports them, also there's 900 million or so members (?) so that's a lot of effort
Those five guys who use google+ are going to be pissed.
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;37722619]The 30 odd people on my friends list suggests otherwise.[/QUOTE]
I guess they broke into the hipster market.
[QUOTE=Ban Evader;37722627]I guess they broke into the hipster market.[/QUOTE]
The average public knows about Google+, they just don't give a shit.
Now if it was something pretty much nobody here have heard about...
[QUOTE=itisjuly;37722320]Such people are a minority.[/QUOTE]
A minority which would increase site traffic and the size of the userbase overall
I put all my pictures and personal information on a social network site, but why isn't an anonymous? No duh social networking isn't anonymous because it isn't supposed to be. If you won't want your porn searches showing up on your profile then log out; you don't have to be logged in to turn off safe search.
Good thing I don't use it then. Any online service that requires my real name and won't let me use a screen name is an online service I'm not using.
Ive been using "fps_alex leet" on google+ since day 1 and my account is still up. In fact, I got the youtube option to switch my account "ultraleet" to my real name "fps_alex leet"
[QUOTE=Ban Evader]Those five guys who use google+ are going to be pissed.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231420/Google_hits_milestone_100M_active_monthly_users[/url]
This joke is getting old.
My name's been "n o" since day one and it still is there
Why would you want to be anonymous on Google+
I prefer Google+ to Facebook. It just doesn't matter because no one else can be bothered to use G+, so neither can I.
[QUOTE=smurfy;37724812]Why would you want to be anonymous on Google+[/QUOTE]
Because they do? Or perhaps they don't want their real name tied to troll comments on youtube?
Honestly it doesn't matter. If someone wants to use a pseudonym on a social network site they should be able to.
[QUOTE=MrEndangered;37722293]We're going to force you to use your real name then give you a second name that we don't like you using: instant patent!
Google what are you doing.[/QUOTE]
protecting the world from apple maybe?
[QUOTE=The DooD;37725157]I prefer Google+ to Facebook. It just doesn't matter because no one else can be bothered to use G+, so neither can I.[/QUOTE]
that's its one and only major failing, is that people don't see the point to setting up and using a social network profile when they already have facebook. It's not an identical service in the least, but that's how most everyone sees it, so that web of "we have facebook already" holds back a lot of your current FB contacts. If they're not updating, you're not checking for updates, visiting the site, or posting anything of your own.
I still use it as a public profile, posting art related things now and again, though I do keep in contact with people by posting within private circles and such. As for facebook, all I ever see is the fifty billion 'liked' pages from 5 years ago with witty/sarcastic names suddenly all being posted on by what appears to be the same guy who aimlessly browses 9gag.
With the recent struggles in the stock market, I've started wondering about what exactly would happen if/when FB eventually crashes and burns. Would people actually migrate to things like G+, find a way to make some sort of cheap knockoff site just for the sake of having facebook back in some form?
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