Saturday, August 20, 2011

Verified Identities on Google+

 Google is starting to roll out "verification badges" on profiles so you can be sure the person you’re adding to a circle is who they claim to be. It is sort of the flip side of the "anonymity" issue. On one hand, people want to know that a celebrity "really is" who they say they are, online. On the other hand, some information is made available only by anonymous users.

There's a tension, either way. Many attribute Internet bad manners precisely to cloaked identities. In other cases, such as when governments or enterprises ban private use of social or other applications, anonymous posting is the only alternative. Anonymous information also is hard to verify.

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