Actually, you have to provide your own entertainment. We tried the other thing and it was shit.

[hirez]

I think I am experimenting with how and if four (four!) slightly different social-meejah-wossnames can be made to play well together. I note that G+ and parent org appear to be making all the fuckups in the first month that it took LJ a decade to muddle through. That's either something clever to do with the accelerating nature of the 'plug-in

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[smogo]

Google+ makes no sense to me whatsoever. I've got a list, sorry "Circle", of friends, and what? What are you supposed to actually do with it?

[sarah_mum]

Ditto.
G+ is not a social network. it's the aisle I shops for bras in.

[jozafeen]

Applause and a gratuitous "Ding-dong!" for the mental picture! ;-)

[hirez]

More or less the same as LJ; emit interesting things.

[stevenothing]

"Gurgle are being aspie cock-ends about it"

I love the way that you imply there's a single, agreed-upon opinion :-)

If you feel strongly, please use the feedback button. Things *will* change if people request it.

[hirez]

You missed the 'I suspect' and 'buggered by relevant US legislation' - COPPA, presumably.

There is probably more to the 'Gurgle deleted my account and I don't know why' story, if only because the complaint on Twitlonger uses words and phrases I see when people complain about being booted off $employer's website(s) for T&C and/or local policy violations.

However, from the outside, yr splendid employers do jolly fine impersonations of a monolithic org. It's going to be different from the inside, no doubt. F'rinstance I don't know what HP looked like from the outside, but inside was a right cockney barrel of monkeys.

On the anon/pseudo argument, I don't know where I fall yet. As noted before, the drama-magnets will manage to exploit either position for maximal Accident. Still, I have a 'just fuck off will you' circle (Although it should probably be called 'Eight' or 'Bolgia-2' were I some sort of classicist) so that's, um, crab with brass hand.

[stevenothing]

The twitlonger thing is different to the real names stuff on G+. If you enter an unreal name (a complex name, maybe, with an imaginary component) then you get your profile stuck in a state whereby you can't use it until you enter a real name. This means that you can't use Google products that require a profile: Google+ and, maybe, Picasa. Possible some other stuff, I'm not sure. This won't affect your gmail account, your youtube account, your blogger acount, etc. etc. No data is lost, all you have to do is change your name

[hirez]

That's... A somewhat sub-optimal design, minister.

(Says the chap with a name that blows up airline reservation systems, and there was some pisspot socially-socially site that threw a fit over the hyphen, which, while I'm prepared to forgive systems coded in the sixties when no-one had names like, I don't know, Alec Douglas-Home or Norman St. John-Stevas (nb: sarcasm) anything more recent that, oh, 1998 is on rather a sticky wicket.)

Now I have read this I am in favour of psuedonyms. Still not convinced about anonymity, mind.