My Google+ account was suspended because I had entered my "real name" as "Alan / Falcon" when I signed up since I was using the service as a kind of meta social network for online friends who I didn't know personally and wanted to keep that separation between my real identity and my meta identity. I'm sure if I'd omitted the slash I wouldn't have been suspended, and my name is definitely not really Alan / Falcon, but the whole thing left a very sour taste in my mouth. I wasn't able to use the network how I wanted so I just left the account in the suspended state, with a giant full screen pop-up appearing every time I followed a link from HN to a G+ post. Fortunately none of the other Google services I used were at all affected, including GMail or Blogger. But I went ahead and finally just updated my name to my real name on Google+ now to avoid a situation like this if Google decides to change its algorithm to something else and flags my permanently suspended account. Note that the account is still suspended so far as I know, pending review of the name change I submitted.

On a related note, I'm actually bummed that iCloud is free. I felt better about access to my data when I was paying yearly for MobileMe, and in fact started recently experiencing some issues getting Mail in Snow Leopard to recognize my iCloud account and finally ended up just upgrading to Lion to resolve the issue. (Yes, the $30 OS upgrade is cheaper than the $99 MobileMe cost, and I'm glad I upgraded because I'm enjoying using Lion, but I dislike how easy it is for Apple to say now that it's a free service they're free to stop supporting anything that isn't the latest iDevice or version of their OS if things happen to work out that way.)