A string of publications have sounded off on Google+ s problem with privacy In articles like this one from News.com and this and this one. But Google is hardly the only social network that looks askance at fictional identities. Facebook, Google+’s main competition, likewise bans anonymous or pseudonymous profiles. Google+ isn t the first social network to adopt this policy. But its hardly alone. Facebook has always been based on a real name culture.
Source: https://threatpost.com/pseudonyms-pseudo-controversy-google-071211/75424/