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		soupboy on July 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Talk is down They used to have something similar back in the days of Orkut. The Orkut name would get set as the Google Talk name. People used to change their Orkut names a lot to say something "cool". Then suddenly they stopped syncing the accounts with Orkut and the name that you had on Orkut stuck.

mikeevans on July 26, 2012 [–]

Shouldn't be a problem now with how strict they have been regarding Google+ names.

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