As I've said before, Facebook beat MySpace because it uses "real names". It's a lot easier to discover people you know, and that drives adoption. Google+ has to copy them, if they want to win the masses over.
They might be better off letting you have several, privately linked identities. For example, I could have friends under my "wisty" account, and friends under my real name. But they are best waiting until the muggles have already created great name accounts, and hooked up with their high-school semi-friends.
Once google is on near-equal terms with facebook, they can allow handles as well as real names. You could just move your "internet friends" circle over to your handle, and leave your "school friends" circle on your real name account. But until they have everyone's real name, this would be a poor business decision.
As I've said before, Facebook beat MySpace because it uses "real names". It's a lot easier to discover people you know, and that drives adoption. Google+ has to copy them, if they want to win the masses over.
They might be better off letting you have several, privately linked identities. For example, I could have friends under my "wisty" account, and friends under my real name. But they are best waiting until the muggles have already created great name accounts, and hooked up with their high-school semi-friends.
Once google is on near-equal terms with facebook, they can allow handles as well as real names. You could just move your "internet friends" circle over to your handle, and leave your "school friends" circle on your real name account. But until they have everyone's real name, this would be a poor business decision.