Translation: What's privacy?
[cross posted from a comment in![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
trouble's journal]:
I'm not sure I read right the first time (and I don't have the spoons to reread, today ['cause virus X]), but there's this thing about changing all user names on Google's Services to Google's standard (I.E. Birth Certificate name)? Supposedly to make it easier for people to know who you are?
"Blogger" (where I have Plato's Nightmare) and YouTube (Where I have a channel) are Google-based, and I'm CapriUni on both. For my own consistency, to make it easier for friends throughout cyberspace to recognize me, I decided 11 years ago, to use CapriUni as my online "face". If Google automatically switches my username on their services, it would actually make it harder for actual people to know who I am, 'cause it would be inconsistent.
[cross posted from a comment in
trouble's journal]:I'm not sure I read right the first time (and I don't have the spoons to reread, today ['cause virus X]), but there's this thing about changing all user names on Google's Services to Google's standard (I.E. Birth Certificate name)? Supposedly to make it easier for people to know who you are?
"Blogger" (where I have Plato's Nightmare) and YouTube (Where I have a channel) are Google-based, and I'm CapriUni on both. For my own consistency, to make it easier for friends throughout cyberspace to recognize me, I decided 11 years ago, to use CapriUni as my online "face". If Google automatically switches my username on their services, it would actually make it harder for actual people to know who I am, 'cause it would be inconsistent.
