I’ve been ignoring the emails for a couple of months now, but the time came last night to decide what to do with my second YouTube account. You see, before Google even had accounts, I had a YouTube account as DMWebsites. Then, as time passed, I started creating accounts under my own name. Hence a second YouTube account.
The DMWebsites one was my primary, filling up with family videos & subscription, while the DavidJohnMead one lay barren.
Fast-forward and Google now wants us to link all these disparate accounts together, but there didn’t seem to be any way to rename my DMWebsites one, or migrate it all to DavidJohnMead. Also I could only link one to my Google profile.
So, looking at the long term, I’ve decided to hook the empty DavidJohnMead one up to my Google account and use it as the primary. My hope is making it easier to share stuff on Google+ etc. But this means re-subscribing and uploading. It’s never been a huge social hub for me, so maybe this is a good time to clean house in there.
As for the DMWebsites account, well, I ended up creating a new Google account and linked to that. It seems that would mean having double accounts in Google+ under my real name (not something I wanted), so it’ll slowly dwindled to nothing, or house those freelance web tutorials I’ll never make.
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