Google is strictly against fake identity on its brand new social network. This was evident through the striking number of Google+ accounts that it had deleted in the past 24 hours.
While I laud Google’s effort in combating fake identity on the net, the method that it chose to validate its account holders may not be so suitable.
While I laud Google’s effort in combating fake identity on the net, the method that it chose to validate its account holders may not be so suitable.
The Google+ project’s real name policy requires that its users use only real names on the network and not pseudonyms or any other names.
However, there some group of people who feel there are good reasons to use a fake name. For example, celebrities who are better known for their reel names rather than their real names and political dissidents who may want to avoid persecution. At this rate, Lady Gaga may never hop on to Google+.
I feel that Google+’s real name policy is both alienating and frightening the very people it aims to serve. Perhaps Google could find other methods to validate a person’s identity instead of their names.