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GOOGLE, WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO YOU?
13 years ago
"MORELS taste good in omelettes..."
A new shit-nugget has come upon the scene... *Snarls* Anyone using Google + yet? Anyone getting stupid little "your account will be suspended or canceled unless you use your real name" messages? I got 'em, a few times, now, and I'm PISSED. These guys, who's motto is "don't be evil", are forcing Google + users to put their legal names out there. Now, that isn't a problem for many who don't give a fuck- they'll just shrug and make the changes. But me, I'm about choice. I'm about OPTIONS, and when you start taking those choices and options away, you begin to infringe on what I consider my freedom of choice.
There is also the matter of net-safety. Is it wise, for example, to put a user's name online who might be underage? You know why. What if someone has a stalker, and they don't want to be found? Or worse, an abused person, needing friends, goes online to associate with people who don't beat them up or rape them. How easy would it be for their abuser to find them? Assuming, of course the creep isn't already monitoring their online activities. But, if they ever get the chance to get outside of the home, to a real-life friend, say, and they have a profile online with a pseudonym...
Fuck off, Google, this shit is bogus.
AND THAT IS NOT COOL.
Now, I've made the changes they "required", but I get a message back saying their review team doesn't think the name I gave 'em is my real one. I left a spiky little "screw you" protest in my public profile info and then told them to go to my Facebook page. Anyone curious about that, can go here: https://www.facebook.com/T.W.Dragon Yes, there it is; Terrakian Dragon. That is my REAL fucking name, you jacktards in the Google offices, or in India, or wherever the flying fuck you are on this rock.
What if someone wants to use an old-fashioned Net-handle? A nickname, a pseudonym? Oh, they give an "option" for using a nickname? Look at it again. That "option" is fucking BOGUS; the nickname shows in two ways, in quotes sandwiched in your real name, or in brackets at the end... of your REAL NAME. Seriously? WTF?
NOT COOL, GOOGLE, NOT COOL.
I hope the blogoshpere, and the whole internet-full of cyber denizens go and give them the bitch-slap they deserve. No trolls, just real, heartfelt protest, because this shit is snotty, and I don't like it.
*growls*
There is also the matter of net-safety. Is it wise, for example, to put a user's name online who might be underage? You know why. What if someone has a stalker, and they don't want to be found? Or worse, an abused person, needing friends, goes online to associate with people who don't beat them up or rape them. How easy would it be for their abuser to find them? Assuming, of course the creep isn't already monitoring their online activities. But, if they ever get the chance to get outside of the home, to a real-life friend, say, and they have a profile online with a pseudonym...
Fuck off, Google, this shit is bogus.
AND THAT IS NOT COOL.
Now, I've made the changes they "required", but I get a message back saying their review team doesn't think the name I gave 'em is my real one. I left a spiky little "screw you" protest in my public profile info and then told them to go to my Facebook page. Anyone curious about that, can go here: https://www.facebook.com/T.W.Dragon Yes, there it is; Terrakian Dragon. That is my REAL fucking name, you jacktards in the Google offices, or in India, or wherever the flying fuck you are on this rock.
What if someone wants to use an old-fashioned Net-handle? A nickname, a pseudonym? Oh, they give an "option" for using a nickname? Look at it again. That "option" is fucking BOGUS; the nickname shows in two ways, in quotes sandwiched in your real name, or in brackets at the end... of your REAL NAME. Seriously? WTF?
NOT COOL, GOOGLE, NOT COOL.
I hope the blogoshpere, and the whole internet-full of cyber denizens go and give them the bitch-slap they deserve. No trolls, just real, heartfelt protest, because this shit is snotty, and I don't like it.
*growls*
LOT of hinky shenanigans I ain't cool with. *grumbles*
Use whatever name you want, Murra. If your account does get suspended and you go through the proper channels to get it unsuspended (without changing the name you're using) and it doesn't work, just change your name to anything that could be considered real.
I go by Argento Dragone (means "Silver Dragon"). First name is plausible, last name is plausible, but neither are my real name.
Anyway, there's a page simply called Atheism on Google + that I enjoy and like commenting on, but since this silly nonsense, I can't. Grr.
And I have commented there, but I don't recall seeing any of your comments.
In First "Fake" Last or First Last "Fake" format.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201.....ice-baby-names
http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.n.....s?OpenDocument
And here is pretty much the reson why.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandst.....ips.newzealand
Regardless, I don't even use google because their gay...
In the rude, slang, terminology.
Now it's my business name, which is officially registered as Ri'en Karrot... they didn't bother me, or say that it wasn't "real" @_@ Like you said, it's "safer" to have it that way - even though you could look it up, it all traces back to art galleries, not any personal stuff or names due to all the search-bot blocks I have up >_>;
However, i am also firmly of the school of thought that internet anonymity is important, and sure as heck won't be using my real name on the internet any time soon.
I actually have an account, but i never use it, and never signed up with my real name anyway.
Software that reports /anywhere/ online will instantly be discredited and accused of evil.
Putting as much as a serial number into a processor (Pentium III's) causes mass boycotts.
2012 Mentality: you're forced to have your real name online because social media must be a perfect encyclopedia of humans.
Almost all software reports somewhere for some vague form of tracking for "user experiences". Thankfully, GPS is in /everything/, so it doesn't even need to ask where you are.
Serial numbers? Old school. Now we have unique ID's for everything which are shared with plenty of third party partners (re: ad companies).
But, that's me, I think the downfall of privacy started with Steam. There were days when being forced to "activate online" with unique identifiers was fucking HIGH-ASS TREASON...
The only reason anyone signs up for Google Plus at all is because you get automatically signed up for it if you sign up for anything else Google owns (and they own a disturbingly large percentage of the internet right now too. That's quite worrying actually, the worst possible thing that can happen to the internet is if one single company gains a monopoly over its content. Is anyone else worried about that? You should be!)
Doesn't matter anyway. There are always ways around the tracking systems.