"We'll keep working to get better, and we appreciate the feedback-- and the passion --that Google+ has generated," Horowitz wrote.

I still don't think this change fully addresses the issue. Like my colleague Sarah Jacobsson Purewal , there are many valid reasons for why somebody wouldn't want to reveal their true identity on Google+, or any other social network for that matter.

If these folks are not doing anything illegal, or using the account maliciously, why should Google care at all? What's the purpose? I'm not seeing one.

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