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Google+ may soon support pseudonyms


To privacy advocates wary of Google's upcoming social network Google+ because of a requirement to use only their real names, this might ease your fears. Google+ may soon allow the use of pseudonyms and other forms of identity, tech site Mashable quoted SVP of Social Vic Gundotra as saying. While Google started with only allowing users to sign up if they used their real names, it will be adding features that will “support other forms of identity" in the next few months, it quoted Gundotra as saying. Mashable said Gundotra disclosed this during a conversation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. But it said Gundotra did not go further into how Google+ will support pseudonyms. This comes months after a controversy erupted when Google suspended users using pseudonyms and nicknames instead of their real names. Google at the time made minor changes in response to criticism, but stood by its decision to suspend users who did not use their real names. — TJD, GMA News

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