Re: [Gmail-Users] Gmail names of underage users

2016-03-14 Thread Marko Vukovic
How would Google know in any case if that was the person's real name, or if they lied about their age? On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Zack (Doc) wrote: > https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1350409?hl=en Lists the > countries that have restrictions. > > They are simply

Re: [Gmail-Users] Gmail names of underage users

2016-03-14 Thread Zack (Doc)
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1350409?hl=en Lists the countries that have restrictions. They are simply prohibited from making the account, once they are old enough to create it, I do not believe there are any restrictions on what the name could be, apart from the normal restrictions

Re: [Gmail-Users] Gmail names of underage users

2016-03-14 Thread Eric Rossman
Google will not allow user under a certain age (depends on country) have their own Google account. For the US, that age is 13. On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Andy wrote: > Hello, > > Is it true that Gmail doesn't let young users (below some age) use their own > names when

[Gmail-Users] Gmail names of underage users

2016-03-12 Thread Andy
Hello, Is it true that Gmail doesn't let young users (below some age) use their own names when they open a Gmail account? If so, can their parents intervene to change the name for them, or will Google not allow anyone to change the name until the user is old enough? And how old would that be? I