Comment Re:"real name" means your REAL NAME. (Score 1) 560
Not correct. What you're describing as REAL NAME is your LEGAL NAME. I think it's just as likely that real name is what you're known as to the people around you.
I know many people who know Skud. SHE (not he!) is known to all of them as Skud. That is her real name.
Consider that when we're adding friends on Google+, we will all search for our friends and family members by the names we know them. We don't know the legal names of all our friends--so we're going to end up entering what we know them as, and we'd expect Google+ to come up with answers.
That Google is creating a system that forces people to use legal names and not real names is actually making it more difficult to link Google+ info to info about these people outside of Google+ -- since all of that info uses the person's real name.