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新华网北京7月17日电 据美国科技博客Gizmodo报道，饱受数年批评，Google终于宣布，将废除Google+用户必须使用真名的规定。
实名制是Google+三年前出台的规定，或许是为了看起来更像Facebook吧。但今日，Google终于承认，这项规定将那些不愿意使用真名又想加入Google+的人排除在外。
Google一直以来因此受到缺乏包容性的批评，因而需要做出大转变。从Youtube开始的转变现已全面展开：
“我们对实名制的界定并不清晰，这给一些用户带来了不必要的麻烦。我们为此表示歉意，希望今天的改变能让Google+更受欢迎，变得更加包容。”
所以，从今天起，你可以用任何身份加入Google+。不过，这会不会是一项成功的举措还有待进一步观察。
译者：王俊景
百度新闻与新华网国际频道合作稿件，转载请注明出处。Google+ No Longer Requires You Use Your Real Name
Following years of criticism, Google has announced that it"s scrapping its requirement that anyone using Google+ uses their real name on the network.
The policy was put in place when Google+ launched three years ago, intended to make the network more... well, more like Facebook, really. But last night Google admitted that "it also excluded a number of people who wanted to be part of it without using their real names."
That lack of inclusivity—and the criticism from privacy advocates—is enough for Google to make a U-turn on the policy. A shift that confusingly started on YouTube is now applied across the board:
"We know that our names policy has been unclear, and this has led to some unnecessarily difficult experiences for some of our users. For this we apologize, and we hope that today"s change is a step toward making Google+ the welcoming and inclusive place that we want it to be."
So, from today, you can be whoever you want to be on Google+. Whether that"s enough to make the network any more successful, though, remains to be seen.
