Should Commenters Use Real Names on YouTube?
@Most of the time reading comments on the Internet is like attending a slightly dysfunctional family dinner, full of passionately argued, half baked political theories and tasteless jokes.
Wandering into a © © YouTube comments section, however, can be like walking into a dive bar bathroom, walls and mirrors covered in graffiti as profane as it is pointless.
@Last month at Google I/O, an audience member asked Dror Shimshowitz, a head of product at YouTube, what he could do about the terrible comments on his YouTube channel. According to Wired, Shimshowitz responded, **We*re working on some improvements to the comment system, so hopefully we*ll have an update on that in the next few months. **
@Apparently he wasn*t lying. Try to comment on a video today and a window will pop up with the title **Start using your full name on YouTube, * which © will sign you in with your Google+ account. A YouTube spokesperson told BetaBeat that this option has been offered since June 29 and that users with a Google+ account will see the same thing if they try to upload a video.
@If you don't want to use your Google+ account, you can refuse but then you*re taken to a second prompt, which asks **Are you sure? ** Then, like some kind of Internet degenerate, you must explain why you don't want to use your full name
