Surely that's more of a "won't" than a "can't"? Your post to this list has both names clearly displayed and Google+ would let you do the same albeit by marking your usual name as a nickname and it would appear in parentheses exactly as it does on your Facebook profile.
I do agree though that there are many people who simply don't want to give all their personal data to such sites, and that has to be kept in mind when suggesting we all decamp from a mailing list to a community: I use both Facebook and Google, but I avoid giving FB more information than I have to to get what I want from them. With Google I give them a lot more information because they give me a lot of benefits in return (Google Now for example). I also believe (perhaps wrongly) that Facebook makes money from selling my information to third parties whereas Google makes money by keeping my information to themselves. Other people I know refuse to use Google+ or refuse to use Facebook (possibly some use neither but I probably don't see them online much). Duncan On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Tony Ibbs <t...@tibsnjoan.co.uk> wrote: > Hmm. Don't forget that some of us *can't* use google plus, because it > won't let us use our normal online names (I've been TIbs online since > before there was such a thing, but that's not good enough for google plus). > I'm sure I'm not the only one. That shouldn't matter to anyone on this > list, of course (my problem, etc.), but it needs to be considered if the > aim is to *broaden* the community. And there are other concerns with all of > the social networking sites (google plus, facebook, etc.). > > Google groups, of course, just (at the moment) need a valid email address > to post to them - if you really want something from google, does that > provide a half-way house? (I've no idea if you can gateway google groups > and google plus in some transparent manner). > > Tibs > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >
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