Yeah, of course you can use a fake name, and I do, but it's still a pain in the ass to have to come up with something that Google will believe is a real name (in case I don't want to tie that account to the rest of the established fake identity). Yep, they not only pester you for a real name, but also judge whether you seem to be giving them a really real name. You can say "what's so hard about using fake name lolnoobs" but then I can ask what's so hard about letting people just use arbitrary handles like pretty much the entire internet has done the whole time. How many people are going to provide their actual information? Whatever Google thinks this will accomplish, it won't; it's just annoying.
More often now it seems as if people think that making pithy smartass comments that reduce matters down to a size easily ridiculed is a good substitute for actually having something to say. Just take a second look at whatever you're about to post and consider whether you're actually making a point or just running your mouth and trying to look clever.
