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Public area => The Pub => Off-topic => Topic started by: DirtRider on August 15th, 2011, 02:40 PM
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Anyone had a look at Google plus. I have started using it and think it is much better than FB especially as you can arrange you friends into different groups and just post to any groups you want. :cool:
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I've used it. But I'm increasingly hearing horror stories that make FB look tame by comparison.
Such as the fact that your public posts are being tied into search. So your searches are being tagged explicitly as yours, and remember you have to use your real name on Google+.
Just remember: the adage of 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear' doesn't really ring true. Everyone should fear because very soon if things continue as they are, you will have no ability to hide anything from anyone again. Every action will be transparent, to someone. And that someone will likely be a private company that can effectively bar you at will. Not a pretty prospect, is it.
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Just posting my avatar to gplus made my email address associated to my name in google searches. Yay for privacy...
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Privacy is a real concern with all of these social sites and as you say it seems that it is becoming more and more transparent at every step.
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More and more transparent that we don't have much privacy going forward. People don't sign up to social sites to have every aspect of their social lives being joined together.
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....especially as you can arrange you friends into different groups and just post to any groups you want. :cool:
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Not quite the same way. A list in FB is a mutual thing because the relationship defined is two way - on G+ you can set up a list of people without having to explicitly follow them.
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I don't use FB much any more just sort of lost the plot as far as it went
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....on G+ you can set up a list of people without having to explicitly follow them.
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I'll give G+ their dues, the overall implementation of G+ is pretty solid in terms of making it clear who can see what. The fact that the Googleplex drags the kitchen sink into it is a separate problem entirely.
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That would put us in the same group as Google, not a comparison I'm favourable to, seeing how they're very firmly bending the definition of evil...
The thing is, not only did a bunch of people consider that that was a good idea, but the same bunch of people then convinced more people to build it, and then to convince everyone else that somehow tying all your data into their search engine isn't at least a little evil - and no-one questioned this at the time?! >_<
This is my profile: https://plus.google.com/117163665721006562027/about
Someone else with simliar name:
https://plus.google.com/109154862436949854871/posts
https://plus.google.com/108042950648316636378/posts
It could be because my Search visibility is opt-out?
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Yup, you've turned it off, but were you signed into Google at the time out of interest?
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Yup, you've turned it off, but were you signed into Google at the time out of interest?
Not sure what you are telling me.
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This will be my first go ahead for any sort of social machine (FB,Twitter,Myspace etc). Cannot compare it to anything or have yet to see if it is useful for anything :)