The Real Story About Google+ and Avatar Identity
Channel: Botgirl Questi
Date: 11/07/2011

Google's policy is to suspend accounts from anyone using a pseudonymous identity, including avatar identity. Here's my interview with Google that gets to the bottom of the issue.

The video was created at xtranormal.com

"Google services support three different types of use when it comes to your identity: unidentified, pseudonymous, identified. Google Profiles is a product that works best in the identified state. This way you can be certain you're connecting with the right person, and others will have confidence knowing that there is someone real behind the profile they're checking out. For this reason, Google Profiles requires you to use the name that you commonly go by in daily life." from Google FAQ on identity policy.

xtranormal.com doesn't support subtitles, but for those who are hard of hearing, you can edit a copy of the video and see all of the text, scene by scene: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/12285331/the-real-truth-behind-googles-position-on-virtual-identity