I'm not kneejerk about the privacy thing, I'm not for (in the abstract) personal privacy. What bothers me is that their approach stifles creativity and, as Pete says, goes against the culture of the internet.
The idea of having an identity rank isn't bad in itself, it could be useful and helpful. It's the fact that they want to profit from it and that there are sinister organisations who will put it to sinister uses. If the information they harvest was genuinely public that would be great.
I guess the thing to do is just make a gmail account from scratch, not tied to anything else at all, use a false (but realistic) name and use that to sign up for G+.
Hi, I'm Peter Boughton. Wanna hang out?
The Tech Support variety.
Boughton, BoughtonP
/James Bond
James Bond is such a dick.
I don't think I've ever watched a James Bond movie. But I do like Sean Connery.
You should. Such a dick. Him, not you.
Like like. How could you not with an accent like that?
haha, I like his acting, don't know him personally. Well, other than the time he stopped last week for a beer.
Oh I still meant James Bond. Sean Connery is generally considered to be a dick too, but I have no opinion on the matter. He was a good James Bond (i.e a dick).
I think you are hinting to me that a dick is something other than a penis.
SO tempted to post horse cocks right now.
I was sooooooooooo afraid to open this.
You will kill the old lady behind me if you do that horse cock thing again!