F*ck you Google+

[firecat]

xposted from my journal

I posted this to my G+ stream and profile:

Now officially lurking on G+

I'm disgusted by the G+ names policy. I have hope that they will be forced to change it (it's clear they won't change it on their own) so I'm not going to leave just yet, and I may follow my stream, but I'm not going to participate much. You can find me on Dreamwidth.

Comments

[tuzemi]

I've already left G+ for this exact reason and said the names policy stunk as the reason in the feedback form they provide when you turn off social services. I also deleted the profile, and reverted my gmail "name" field to what it was when I first created it.

Google burned down a lot of goodwill for me with this. I really don't think they understand (as an institution) privacy anymore.