Google Plus No Longer Requires Real Names

Your move, Facebook: Google Plus announced on its own Google Plus page that it has eliminated its policy of requiring users to sign up with their real names.

Nametags650Your move, Facebook: Google Plus announced on its own Google Plus page that it has eliminated its policy of requiring users to sign up with their real names.

Facebook still requires use of real names, despite objections to that policy, but Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek this past January that the policy was being loosened for the separate mobile applications the social network is developing under its Facebook Creative Labs initiative, telling the magazine:

I don’t know if the balance has swung too far, but I definitely think we’re at the point where we don’t need to keep on only doing real identity things.

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