I kept my last name off the internet for 5 years.
This is my Google+ account – KeriBlog.
It’s been suspended since I got it;
they don’t like my last name, “Blog”.
So I wrote to them saying noooo.
Hours later Google replied I was right.
Now here’s the interesting part.
There is very little information online to guide you, because this issue is so rare.
This article from TechCrunch sums it up:
0.1% of 50 million users submit name appeals,
20% of that is like me.
Let’s do the math on that…
Conclusion:
I’m part of the 0.0002% or 1 / 10,000
It’s not without issue though… because of this rarity, I end up with problems that are not documented and likely few have.
For example: my Picasa photo uploader stopped working for no reason two weeks ago. Which I almost had a meltdown over; that’s like a carpenter’s hammer vanishing. The worst part is there’s nothing I can do about it.
Being a spy is a lot of extra ugh.
Regardless of everything though, ha!
Because if Google says it’s true,
it’s true, right?
