I love Google and all the cool stuff they give us for free. I used to worry that they were becoming too ingrained in our lives, but frankly, I’ve stopped worrying about that. I have other things to worry about and what they do usually works really well. So when The Mrs sent me an invitation to connect on Latitude, I accepted it “well, of course, she’s my wife after all”. My thought process went like this: “BrightKite and Foursquare are much better. But Google is ubiquitous so maybe I should just use Latitude.” Then I started questioning the whole thing again.
But dammit, if I’m going to submit to Google, I need a better Google ID. I created “dbt001” back when we were still being anonymous-ish on the Web, and “davidbthomas” is long gone. I’ve fretted and cogitated far too long trying to come up with a better ID that has my davidbthomas online brand in it. But even if I come up with one, I can hardly imagine how much time and effort it would take to move all my Google services from dbt001 to the new one. Yes, these are the kinds of things I worry about.
If anybody knows an easy way to move an entire Google presence from one user ID to another, let me know. So far I’ve struck out.