When I say “had”, I mean “had”, in the past tense. I’ve been watching them dwindle over the past few months, as the Nymwars saga continues – again and again I’ve heard people say things like: I used to really … Continue reading
Tag Archives: letters to Google
How much longer, Google?
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So, Google is still suspending people’s profiles for the crime of having a name that doesn’t fit their idea of what a name is supposed to look like. (I’m talking about Hariadhi – yes, that’s this person’s full name.) They’ve … Continue reading
I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want
I want to be transparent.
I keep hearing people talk about how the Google+ names policy is meant to avoid fakes and pretenders, as though using a pseudonym is about pretence – but I don’t want to use a pseudonym and pretend it’s my real name, I want to use a pseudonym openly, I want to be transparent about it, just as Continue reading
Shifting the goal posts mid-play is not very nice
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Dear Google, Let me try and help you understand one of the reasons why there are people feeling very angry and disappointed with you. It’s this stuff Eric Schmidt recently said about Google Plus being an “identity service” – you see, … Continue reading
Hi Google, no, I haven’t forgotten about you
I met up with a friend yesterday, we went somewhere nice for lunch and then stayed on and had coffee and chatted about this and that. Incidentally, you may find it hard to believe but the guys serving there didn’t ask our names, and we didn’t Continue reading
But Facebook do it…
Poor Google, I think I can see why you might feel that it’s not fair – Facebook have a real names policy and they’ve got so many millions of happy sheep posting away, sharing their family photos and chatting happily with their friends, so why is this not working on Google Plus? Continue reading
Only ten per cent?
Dear Google,
I’ve heard it said that when you decided on the names policy for G+ you thought it wouldn’t be bad for your profits because you’d only lose about 10% of the population – because only about 10% of the population wouldn’t be able to fit in with your names policy.
I guess what you didn’t factor in Continue reading
Hey, Google, let’s talk about our relationship
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Dear Google, I admit I’ve never been a Google fan, but neither have I been anti-Google either – just somewhere in between. I have loved your search engine – no question about that, your search engine has absolutely transformed internet … Continue reading
Hey Google, it’s me again
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Dear Google, I wonder how you feel about all these people ranting against your Common Name Policy. Wish you hadn’t started this? Wondering why all this fuss? I’m sure you didn’t mean to get a whole load of bloggers so … Continue reading
My third letter to Google
Dear Google,
Today I’d like to tell you about a very dear friend of mine, who, to protect his privacy, I will call Daniel.
Daniel lives in a country where freedom of speech is limited. There is an issue which Daniel is very passionate about, and Continue reading