Careful. People that did this are certainly better informed than I am, but here's a way to break Google's services and annoy the hell out of you.<p>- I was a G+ user, registered with my 'real name'™<p>- The nymwars discussion came up, real name policies were enforced. I have strong sympathies for one faction, changed my name to 'Ben .'<p>- Profile suspended<p>- Deleted my account and deleted my Google Profile (or whatever that precursor thing was called)<p>If you somehow end up doing what I did, you<p>- will regularly end up on 'Your profile is suspended' sites. Reloading Gmail (I'm glad that I'm using it less and less) gives me a login screen, logging in shows the 'profile is suspended' bullshit. Only way out? Manually going to mail.google.com. Why a reload on a GMail site would lead to a G+ login/redirect .. I don't know.<p>- will be out forever. Luckily, I consider G+ as MySpace, just worse. But I DID click on the 'Your profile is suspended, please click here' link in the past. It .. leads to the very same site. In other words: You're now enjoying a suspended profile, that shows up a lot and annoys the hell out of it. You cannot make it go away, you cannot follow any links that this site offers and Google shoves it in your face again and again.<p>I seriously doubt that any testing was done that includes 'Your name is not agreeable' suspensions. Ever.<p>Of course: The link of this story here leads to a site that says:<p>"Your profile is currently suspended
Until your profile is unsuspended, you will be unable to use this feature.<p>Visit your profile to learn more."<p>Where 'Visit your profile to learn more.' is a link that .. shows that very same thing. Suspended people cannot delete their profile. Makes sense..
Link to delete your Google account entirely
<a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/DeleteAccount" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/accounts/DeleteAccount</a>
"Your circles will be deleted, but people in your circles will remain in your Contacts."<p>I hate this. I once had the HN circle added (was being circulated after plus' debut). After deleting my plus account, they never left my contacts list. Syncing across to my Android meant I also had my huge contacts list on the phone. I remember trying to delete these contacts but it didn't quite work and I don't know why.
Given the scope and variety of dependencies people have on Google products, I feel as though this should also very clearly state what this does <i>not</i> delete. E.G. "this does NOT delete your Gmail account"