I'm starting to think I can't move anywhere on the net without Google + asking me to sign in! Not only that but they seem determined to use my real name rather than any moniker I like having! Its all rather frustrating and feels like the cyber-version of the enclosures act!
Is it just me?
I tried to use 4OD on my phone this week and it wanted a phone number and a second email address in case the first one didn't work! I gave it a fake one and it seemed happy.
ReplyDeleteI got outed on google from Wotan too, despite constant checks to tell it who i didnt want to be!
ReplyDeleteI've been lying to the internet about who I really am for so long... if I have to start using my real name I might have some sort of identity crisis.
ReplyDeleteyes same here - wont let me add utube vids without me agreeing to use my name then does nothing and still wont let me do anything very frustrating
ReplyDeleteI think it's all to do with their single sign-on, which I've started getting for a week now, and which makes a certain kind of sense (to the average punter as well as the big G themselves).
ReplyDeleteIt started for me in them asking to change my y'alltube account name, which I childishly got round by refreshing the screen. :) Then they asked a more relevant question, in whether I wanted my channel at all since I didn't appear to be using it. Can't even recall why I ever set up an account in the first place, so agreed and that settled it to everyone's satisfaction.
Long story short, I think you can pick any old name (Grumpy.Spiteful f ex) so long as it's the same one across all their services.
Hope that helps -- Paul