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by fiendsan 4887 days ago
That's actually the only reason i dont care about google+ , the real name policy doesnt only suck its freaking dangerous!!!! cause if facebook goes after your account, so what, you lose some pictures and posts? but you can make a new one and find your friends fast! its bothersome, when google goes after your account, you lose your mail, your documents, your adwords, your adsense, your android.... its a web apocalipse, and for what? for not using your real name? wtf is that! so i dont think avoiding google+ is a question of dislike, more like a preemptive attempt to keep your valuable data safe.
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Please don't spread misinformation. If Google has a problem with your name, they will at most prevent you from using Google+ until you fix it. The other Google products you use will be unaffected.
If it ever were the case that Google would lock you out entirely, that is no longer the policy (nor has it been for a long time). A lot of the early reports that people were getting locked out of Google were centered around one person, who claimed to have been locked out from Google over his name, but it turned out the lockout was because he'd uploaded questionable images to his account (I can't find a link at the moment, but here is Matt Cutts alluding to it: https://plus.sandbox.google.com/u/1/+MattCutts/posts/NNJduMF...).

The policy, for the record, is here (see the bottom of the page): http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

:\ you are joking right! did you read the policy? i'll quote "If your profile is suspended, you will not be able to make full use of Google services that require an active profile such as Google+, Reader and Picasa. This will not prevent you from using other Google services, like Gmail. Your profile can be restored by editing your name and submitting an appeal that will be reviewed by our team, as directed by on-screen instructions."

soooo nothing has changed! if they dont like your name or if you dont have a good enough proof bye bye!!! im not spreading misinformation, my coment is still pretty much valid, there is still to this day a chance that by signing up to Google+ that they will suspend your account!