Google+ now lets you use any name you want

[Builder]

via Hacker News

 

https://plus.google.com/+googleplus/posts/V5XkYQYYJqy

 

"When we launched Google+ over three years ago, we had a lot of restrictions on what name you could use on your profile. This helped create a community made up of real people, but it also excluded a number of people who wanted to be part of it without using their real names.

 

Over the years, as Google+ grew and its community became established, we steadily opened up this policy, from allowing +Page owners to use any name of their choosing to letting YouTube users bring their usernames into Google+. Today, we are taking the last step: there are no more restrictions on what name you can use.

 

We know you've been calling for this change for a while. We know that our names policy has been unclear, and this has led to some

unnecessarily difficult experiences for some of our users. For this we apologize, and we hope that today's change is a step toward making Google+ the welcoming and inclusive place that we want it to be. Thank you for expressing your opinions so passionately, and thanks for continuing to make Google+ the thoughtful community that it is."

[Askew]

I just want Google+ to let me not use it.

[Kevinkt]

my google+ name hasn't been my real name since.... whenever i forced to have an account

[Syntaxvgm]

Great. Google plus would take my real name and I had to use a fake one. Nice to be told I'm fake by youtube. My name is Jake btw. 

[Hidden Orange]

Cue flood of XxX420BL4Z317XxX wannabes, Hitlers, Stalins, Dicks, and Geoffrey's, especially Geoffrey's.

[ChipWoodChainSaw]

Finally. I intelligently use Google+ non of my friends use it but what ever.

[Kamina]

I just use Google+ hoping HR would see it and say I am a good candidate.