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Friday, 12 August 2011
Google Accounts
Earlier today I spent the best part of a couple of hours trying to figure out how I could make myself a new YouTube account with a decent username, ready for when I order my new webcam. Initially I simply wanted to change my existing account's password, but apparently that's impossible. My aim was to keep my existing 'jenkinsmckenzie' account running (because it's got a fair few videos on it) and create a brand spanking new account alongside it. Sound fair? Well... It turns out you're not allowed two YouTube accounts on the same e-mail address. This is seemingly only a slight inconvenience, sure; but because of this limitation, you can't connect two separate YouTube accounts to your Google account. Currently I have a Google account that covers this very blog, and the 'jenkinsmckenzie' YouTube profile. At this stage I'd then worked out in my mind that the best thing to do would be to disconnect my YouTube account from my Google account, and hope that my new YouTube account can then be synchronized with my existing Google account, even though they're running off different e-mail addresses. I never found out whether this would be possible (likely not), because you can't disconnect a YouTube account from a Google account unless you actually delete the YouTube account completely. This I am not prepared to do. I thought about deleting my Google account and creating a new one OR deleting it, creating a new one on my alternate e-mail address, creating a new YouTube account on the same hotmail, and migrating my Blogger account to that email address. Turns out that neither of those are possible, because deleting a Google account automatically initiates the deletion of any account that branches off it. Bugger. So, why can't I just create a new YouTube account, and not connect it to a Google account at all? Don't ask me, but I can't. Google states that YouTube accounts must be connected to a Google account. That basically means that I'll have to create a second Google account just for YouTube. This sounds all well and good, but I'd have to switch Google accounts when moving from YouTube to Blogger every single time. This would drive me nuts. What I'm having to do then, is keep my existing YouTube account - the name of which I hate (it was created by my older brother several years ago), and post my new videos on there instead. Brilliant. Google, sort this shit out. Wouldn't it be simpler to let me change my username? I think so. Needless to say I'm pretty hacked off with this whole debacle.
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