As a change of pace from the usual pattern of comments on a 'someone got their account suspended' post I would like to offer a practical solution:
Why not provide an optional pseudonym filed? that way you have the real name to enable searching for people within the service and users can use their desired display name.
In fact, there is a nickname field in the Google Profile page. However, it seems that this field, even if public, is not displayed anywhere or used when searching for people.
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As a change of pace from the usual pattern of comments on a 'someone got their account suspended' post I would like to offer a practical solution:
Why not provide an optional pseudonym filed? that way you have the real name to enable searching for people within the service and users can use their desired display name.
In fact, there is a nickname field in the Google Profile page. However, it seems that this field, even if public, is not displayed anywhere or used when searching for people.