You're not Google's customer. Google's advertisers are their customers. You're Google's product.
Bore repeating. And I have an initial and a pseudonymous name. So I should at least edit the initial. But, and this is the kicker, I can't just do that in Google+. The act of editing my name there edits it in all my google products. But it's been registered as L. as my gmail name for a long time, and I use that email address for people that I don't want to give a full name too. I think I may need to just back out of their full slate of products.
I can see that they're going for the whole hog here, and I don't really want on that train. I can see the benefit from my limited experience as an advertiser, but I really don't want to sell myself that way.
Yeah, and then you can small-scale grantwrite for me!
Liese,
you only need to back out of Google +. They don't remove people (so as I have heard) for using fake names in gmail, etc.
No, that's the thing, though. If it's clear to me that they want to head that direction (personally identifiable info across all accounts) then, I'm not interested in the product. Or being their product.
In other news, this lolcat is relevant to our interests.
Is LiveJournal still utterly frelled for anyone else?
Hey, le_nubian, did you friend people today on +?
Connie,
I haven't been able to use LJ since yesterday. Occasionally I get my home page, but can't get my friends page.
::ponders links::
::crosses P-C off the helpful list::
::adds P-C to the "helpful" list::
If I'm pretending to be a lesbian with someone to hand, I get handsy. It's not that the person who needs to be convinced signeup for a big show, but I figure some cuddling and some fondling and maybe some kissing gets the point across properly, right?
Mk is home. And off insulin for a bit. His doped-up-on-iv-sugar numbers were within the acceptable range, and his lows with the smallest insulin dose dipped into scary territory. Now, this has happened before, so we'll see. We both get a vacation of an undetermined length from the needles and the schedule.
He's sleeping off his hospital stay.