Have you jumped onto Google+ yet?

[bhsup]

Nope. I don't need the whole world being able to track me. Real name requirements and all that rot. I'll stick with CFC OT and IRC for my tight little circle of internet chums.

 

[warpus]

I have an account and all my geeky friends do too, but there aren't enough hot girls on there yet to warrant me going on very often

 

[IglooDame]

Nope. I don't need the whole world being able to track me. Real name requirements and all that rot. I'll stick with CFC OT and IRC for my tight little circle of internet chums.

I think "real name requirements" are "it needs to sound like a real name, i.e. first and last name of some sort" (Joseph Smith, or Igloo Dude, for two examples), not "the name that's on your birth certificate/drivers license/passport" (VRWCAgent, Madonna, etc). Or did I hear wrong on this?

 

[bhsup]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Plus#Nymwars

Google has suspended accounts because Google believed they were not using their real name.[47][48] Google VP Bradley Horowitz claims that a violation of the terms of service will only affect the service whose terms were violated, not any of the other services that Google provides.[49] It is reported that in one case[50] this resulted in the account holder being temporarily locked out of all of Google services.

EDIT: More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars

On July 22, Google+ began a large-scale suspension of accounts which did not meet its naming standards

...

"Google Profiles is a product that works best in the identified state. This way you can be certain you’re connecting with the right person, and others will have confidence knowing that there is someone real behind the profile they’re checking out. For this reason, Google Profiles requires you to use the name that you commonly go by in daily life."

 

[NickyJ]

Nope. I don't need the whole world being able to track me. Real name requirements and all that rot. I'll stick with CFC OT and IRC for my tight little circle of internet chums.

+1

I don't need no stupid Google+.

 

[PeteAtoms]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Plus#Nymwars



EDIT: More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars

This reminds me of the good ol' days when Facebook required a legit college/university email to sign-up.

I would like to switch to G+, but it would be impractical considering how few of my buds are using it. I'd be pretty lonely at G+ if I were to switch right now.

 

[PhroX]

Nope. I'm not a big fan of FB, but it just about does what I want and I can't be arsed with the hassle of changing over...

 

[IglooDame]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Plus#Nymwars

EDIT: More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymwars

Thanks. I'm still not clear - if I'm known as Fred in real life, and use "Fred Janssen" as my Real Name instead of my passport's "Fred Johnson", is there anything on the Google side to prevent that? Do they require proof-of-ID when signing up?


Edit: And it's funny how many people won't start using it until enough of their friends do.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Thanks. I'm still not clear - if I'm known as Fred in real life, and use "Fred Janssen" as my Real Name instead of my passport's "Fred Johnson", is there anything on the Google side to prevent that? Do they require proof-of-ID when signing up?

I don't think it's as straight forward as that. You can sign up using any name you want I think. I think it probably involved tracking your activity and picking up any idiosyncratic behavior. Like using a different name with two linked accounts or something.

I dunno though, I'm just talking out of my hole. Every social network or service like Google is going to have privacy concerns. It's a matter of using the lesser of two evils, or not using anything at all I think.

It's still too early to tell if G+ is going to be anything more than a niche network of some kind.

Edit: And it's funny how many people won't start using it until enough of their friends do.

What's the point otherwise

 

[warpus]

It's still too early to tell if G+ is going to be anything more than a niche network of some kind.

I doubt it ever will.. They really messed up by opening it up to the public too late. If they had done this when people were still buzzing about G+, it could have actually gotten some traction..

 

[Smellincoffee]

I joined a few weeks ago, but not a lot of my friends have switched so I don't use it much. Actually, I've yet to post anything there.

 

[IglooDame]

Edit: And it's funny how many people won't start using it until enough of their friends do.

What's the point otherwise

Oh, I get it, but it's a lot like the "wasting your vote" dilemma - if everyone is waiting for everyone else to move to it, then it's pretty much guaranteed that no one is going to move to it.

 

[LucyDuke]

Only ten months?

I have one, I've just not really used it since last year.

 

[Takhisis]

Nope. I don't need the whole world being able to track me. Real name requirements and all that rot. I'll stick with CFC OT and IRC for my tight little circle of internet chums.

No reason to lose even more privacy to Google.

Especially after what they did with Google Wave, when they signed everyone up against their will. I started getting a lot of unwanted info from potential contacts, people I hadn't seen for years that Google had somehow found me connected to and forced me back into contact with them. Yay Google!

 

[MjM]

It's good but it needs Facebook integration.

Seriously.

This. Google+ is good, but it's not popular enough for me to use it full-time, and, facebook already stole a lot of it's unique features.

 

[phoenix_sprite]

Still with facebook for the time being.

 

[downtown]

There isn't really a need for me. I'm a really active facebook user (for fun, and for work), and there hasn't been a reason for me to invest more time in learning another social network. It's not like I'm a hard guy to find on the internet as it is.

 

[KaiserElectric]

I wouldn't go on Google+. I barely use Facebook already.

 

[Takhisis]

There isn't really a need for me. I'm a really active facebook user (for fun, and for work), and there hasn't been a reason for me to invest more time in learning another social network. It's not like I'm a hard guy to find on the internet as it is.

All I have to do is go to the Members List and type in 'downtown'. How hard could that be?

 

[Kozmos]

I have it, but it is really on the back burner because:

A) Don't have time or will to learn the thingamajigs in the new network
B) Most of the people I talk to on FB are not there so it is just me and some tech colleagues from uni and we already have a devoted study group on FB and it works just as fine as Google circles with documents and everything