Deleted + account

[indeliblesasha]

Once I started seeing stories of people with hyphens having trouble that was it for me. True or not, the idea that my LEGAL name wouldn't even be trouble-free long enough for me to add my voice to support pseuds...major fail, Google, major fail.

I made sure to leave a very detailed, and very polite but unhappy note in the feedback section when I deleted explaining that forcing people to adhere to a flawed concept of identity wasn't going to do anything but lose them users. Like it already has.

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[indeliblesasha]

I read it in passing and realized I didn't even have the energy to verify if it was true or not. The fact that it didn't seem like an exaggeration at this point really drove home what a mess it is.

I use Google for everything, and it's all under my legal name. It wasn't worth the risk to the rest of my account, and it's not like I was going to change my legal freaking name on Google.

It's all just so stupid.

[cavocorax]

That seems really extreme (on Google's part). From what I last heard they were warning people if their Google name was deemed unacceptable by their "standards", which would give people 4 days to change it, or they would lose their G+ account.

As far as I know none of your other Google accounts would be affected (except by the lack of G+ integration).

"Those with suspended Google+ profiles should know that only Google services that require a Plus profile will be inaccessible, while services that don't -- Gmail, Blogger, Docs, and so on -- will still work." (Quote from here.)

I'm definitely going to keep a closer eye on this though.

[shiyiya]

I'm pretty sure I read that somehow Reader counts as social so you'd lose it if you lost +.