PieInTheFacebook

[thnidu]

See Blind Lemming Chiffon's LJ post June 26.

I just posted this on my Facebook page:

On Oct. 1, 2014, Chris Cox of Facebook posted an apology to
the affected community of drag queens, drag kings, transgender, and extensive community of our friends, neighbors, and members of the LGBT community for the hardship that we've put you through in dealing

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[lb_lee]

This only makes me more glad I've never been on Facebook. (Well, I tried once, didn't do anything, and disappeared within a week or so.) CREEPY.

--Rogan

[acelightning]

I refuse to have anything to do with Facebook, since it first appeared, for a number of reasons. I didn't even know about this name problem, but that would be yet another deal-breaker for me

[firecat]

G+ dropped its "real name" policy a while back.

[acelightning]

But when I cancelled my G+ account, it never actually got cancelled. It's unbreakably coupled to my gmail address (which is only a backup, but has its uses), and my membership" in YouTube and Google itself. I keep getting requests from people I know in other contexts to join their "circle" (or whatever G+ calls it), and I have to tell them that I'm not actually on G+, because I cancelled the account.

They were also very rude to me when I tried to convince them that "Ace Lightning" was a legitimate name.

So, I don't want a G+ account, even if they'll now let me use the name everyone knows me by.

[firecat]

Makes sense.