With Google+ it’s also quite easy to register an account under a fake name which wasn’t true with facebook in the initial days.
That’s simply wrong, at least if we’re talking about the early days of Google+. I was on both in their early days and there were more fake names for longer on Facebook.
In the early days of Facebook you needed to have a university address to make an account. Most university students don’t have fake email addresses under different names in the domain of their university.
In most cases Google+ didn’t do anything to verify that an account holder used their real name. They just filtered for things that looked like real names.
They didn’t check your name against your email. You needed a university email but you could, and people did, use a fake name with it, even an obviously fake one.
In the early days Google+ was insisting on something that looked like a real name, but they came to their senses and I believe that by now you are not officially required to use your actual name on Google+.
That’s simply wrong, at least if we’re talking about the early days of Google+. I was on both in their early days and there were more fake names for longer on Facebook.
In the early days of Facebook you needed to have a university address to make an account. Most university students don’t have fake email addresses under different names in the domain of their university.
In most cases Google+ didn’t do anything to verify that an account holder used their real name. They just filtered for things that looked like real names.
They didn’t check your name against your email. You needed a university email but you could, and people did, use a fake name with it, even an obviously fake one.
In the early days Google+ was insisting on something that looked like a real name, but they came to their senses and I believe that by now you are not officially required to use your actual name on Google+.