It’s become an ongoing source of frustration for me. Google and Facebook have become so tied into tracking your computer and your browsing and wanting to be the source to log you into everything that it’s becoming more and more difficult to have more than one “business personality.”
Now I know what some of you are thinking. Why would you have more than one business personality? If you aren’t wondering it, I can tell you Google and Facebook certainly haven’t figured it out yet. You’d think I’m some sort of criminal because I need to have online accounts for more than one aspect of me. But it’s simple really. I’m an author. I write books. I write in multiple genres. And I have more than one pen name. It’s really very common with authors. And many of us have cases where we need to keep those pen names very separate because we might be writing spicy romance for a more adult audience in addition to fantasy stories that appeal to a teen crowd. I want to keep two separate identities for these audiences and everyone says that social media is the newest form of promotion.
But Google and Facebook both have set rules about only having one account for their networks. Oh, I can have multiple Google email accounts, but only one Google plus. And Google now wants to log me in to sites, which means it logs in by the email account I’m using. Yes, Facebook’s newest terms say that you can only have one account. But even more, they’re now trying to be the point of login for other systems like twitter and pinterest. So, even if you have only one Facebook account, it becomes difficult to have two Pinterest accounts.
I’m at the point now where I’m using different browsers for different pin names. I think I’m okay as long as I have fewer pin names than there are browsers.