"If you know someone that Google has suspended/deleted from Google+, add your data here. Me? I think Google is digging a deep hole here, not because of the rules, but because of how they are implementing them. They are copying Facebook and they aren't improving the system over what Facebook did. And I'm a supporter of using real names on online systems."

When I was in the civil service, I was called by my last name, but some chose to refer to me as Odense, which is the city I was from, as we were only a handful from other cities besides Copenhagen. In my present work I'm known chiefly as simply "MO" as the initials that were mine were taken by someone else. Online, I'm known by a lot of different aliases although I mostly use my full name, whenever possible.

As we connect in different "circles" we may also need different names to go by. Not to mention the problem of two users being known by the same name - albeit Google may have made a smart decision to somewhat work around this problem, by tying everything in a user account to the unique character of its' users' email address. This shouldn't prevent Google from allowing users to use whatever names they please, as long as they are tied to Google's unique identifier (the email address). So why do they do it? What is the problem with aliases? I would be interested to know.

What's in a name? Names are many things, and I concur that Google needs to get their heads around this in a way that Facebook and Twitter never has.

I recommend +Larry Page to read the german philosopher Max Stirner (and others) and understand that when "someone calls you Ludwig, it is not a Ludwig in general" or an essence of Ludwig which is meant, but the Ludwig, who is mutually understood as and going by that name, and for whom he has no word. There is no "real name", as there is no words or names for individuals, who are by definition unique. There are only labels that we know them by and can agree upon.

http://i-studies.com/library/articles/stirners_critics.shtml
http://i-studies.com/library/reviews/gordon.shtml
http://i-studies.com/journal/n/html/n21.shtml

It's only natural that we go by different names in different "circles" as we move around people who know us differently and agree differently about what to call us.

(Thread shared via +Robert Scoble - I still find sharing posts/threads pretty awkward as compared to a retweet on Twitter or a simple blog post on WordPress). Desperately need <blockquote> tags.

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