Google+ User? Risk Losing Gmail Account

It looks like if your Gmail account is your primary account, then you should NOT be joining Google+ as Google+ is arbitrarily freezing Gmail accounts...


"A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names - alienating and frightening the people it aims to serve."
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The message I received this morning from the source in my previous Google+ article summarized it,

Google+ suspended my acct “After reviewing your profile, we determined the name you provided violates our Community Standards.”"

"Bill Noble writes,

To be clear, the stories we’re hearing so far are of people being suddenly frozen out of EVERYTHING, all their data and resources, not just one or a few Google functions. Given who we early adopters are, even a few more days of this unreasonable behavior could abort the whole G+ effort."

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue...ar-answers/567

Slashdot users are a bit negative:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07...S-Drawing-Fire

Indeed it happened to my father's account.
After alerting google via their support, the issue was solved in under 6 hours, with their apologies.

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Originally Posted by PastTense

It looks like if your Gmail account is your primary account, then you should NOT be joining Google+ as Google+ is arbitrarily freezing Gmail accounts...

"A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names - alienating and frightening the people it aims to serve."
"The message I received this morning from the source in my previous Google+ article summarized it,

Google+ suspended my acct “After reviewing your profile, we determined the name you provided violates our Community Standards.”"

"Bill Noble writes,

To be clear, the stories we’re hearing so far are of people being suddenly frozen out of EVERYTHING, all their data and resources, not just one or a few Google functions. Given who we early adopters are, even a few more days of this unreasonable behavior could abort the whole G+ effort."

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue...ar-answers/567

Slashdot users are a bit negative:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07...S-Drawing-Fire

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you scared the shit out of me

That is indeed scary.

@Cabalo
Can you elaborate on that. Did the account return successfuly with al emails present etc? Even the old spam mails intact?

Yes, everything was returned as it was before.
He went on vacations and when he returned home and tried to login he got a message: Google has suspended this account for violation of our terms of service. Though it didn't say which terms of service were broken.
Upon contacting them, they returned the account to its original status.

This happened last Friday.

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Originally Posted by PastTense

It looks like if your Gmail account is your primary account, then you should NOT be joining Google+ as Google+ is arbitrarily freezing Gmail accounts...


"A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names - alienating and frightening the people it aims to serve."

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Am I the only one who doesn't understand what this is saying...? Users are required to use their real names or something? How does Google know your name? :unsure:

maybe they expect something that sounds like a real name for the username........ anyway, till facebook exists, no need for google sh*t....

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Originally Posted by Skiz

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Originally Posted by PastTense

It looks like if your Gmail account is your primary account, then you should NOT be joining Google+ as Google+ is arbitrarily freezing Gmail accounts...


"A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names - alienating and frightening the people it aims to serve."

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Am I the only one who doesn't understand what this is saying...? Users are required to use their real names or something? How does Google know your name? :unsure:

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Google knows more than just your real name, it knows more about you than your significant other does. Do not disobey Google

then G+ sucks!

I still use FB to get to know where the best parties are!