User blog comment:Sannse/On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog/@comment-452-20130122182930/@comment-8-20130123013847

I actually did tell that to Facebook :)  I contacted them to say it was silly to use my legal name, no one would ever find me!  They accepted that, and I use my nickname there too.

Google+ was a different matter though. I refused to join for months, because they had a strict "real names" policy. But now they allow nicknames too.

And those are very sensible rules, 452