Ramblings of an old Doc

 

Well, I joined, but like Martin Brinkmann at gHacks.net, I took a look at the privacy settings first thing.

I strongly advise you do so also to advise sharing your profile automatically with everyone on the net.

 

There are quite a few settings to go through, and since I wish to make this brief, please go to his excellent (as usual)

article and go through it using his “tutorial”.  If you’re rushed though, do what he suggests here:

 

“Google+ Privacy in a minute or less:

Here is what you need to do to configure your Google+ privacy settings in less than a minute.

Click on your name and select privacy from the context menu. On the Profile and privacy page click on Edit visibility on profile and change visibility settings for the items on the screen. Once you are done click on your name again and Privacy.

Switch to Google+ on the left sidebar and modify the tagging and notification preferences on that screen.

Et voila, you have successfully configured your Google+ privacy settings.”

 

 

It can be found here: http://www.ghacks.net/2011/07/03/google-privacy-notifications-what-you-should-check/

 

Thanks, Martin for your timely and thorough walk through. It helped a great deal!

Update 1: Google to delete all "Private Profiles" from Google+ by July 31, 2011

http://www.neowin.net/news/google-to-delete-all-private-profiles-from-google-by-july-31

"While the help section  for Google+ states that almost all of the profiles for the Google Profiles are already public, it adds, "We believe that using Google Profiles to help people find and connect with you online is how the product is best used. Private profiles don’t allow this, so we have decided to require all profiles to be public." While some users may not care for this viewpoint, keep in mind that Google only requires that your profile show your name and gender on your page. Other personal info that you can to post on your page can still be kept private. The Google+ service also has a feature that keeps your profile page from being picked up on search results from the Google web site.

Earlier today it was reported that Google plans to rename its Blogger and Picasa divisions as Google Blogs and Google Photos, respectively. This new move is suppose to help consolidate most of the various Google brands before the official launch of Google+."

Update 2: Known Privacy bugs with Google+

https://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs




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on Jul 09, 2011
on Jul 11, 2011

CharlesCS
BTW, I was just looking at my profile and I noticed my gender option was blank. When I went to change that I noticed several interesting options in there. Very interesting set of options. LOL.

With so many choices, I am confused as to what to select!

 

Thanks for pointing that out.  I had not noticed it before.

on Jul 11, 2011

Google is just struggling for supremacy against Facebook.....

2 corporate megaliths trying to be on top of the pile.

 

True enough.  One corporate entity has earned by distrust and disrespect, the other hasn't.

 

I mean, Stardock's a corporate "megalith" also, but they've earned my trust in terms of not trying to screw me over.

 

This is why now with legit competition for Failbook, I'm killing my account there at the end of the month. 

on Jul 13, 2011

How do you completely delete an existing account, no way back?

Best regards,
Steven.

on Jul 14, 2011

Here is an interesting article I just found.

Google+ forces us to question who owns our digital identity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/13/google-plus-online-identiy 

It took almost no time after the beta launch of Google+, the search and advertising giant's new social media experiment, before someone posted a web browser plug-in to help users scoop up their Facebook contacts and automatically invite them into the early adopters' cool new playground. And it took little time after that before Facebook blocked this plug-in from working as designed on the grounds that it violated the site's terms of service. 

on Jul 14, 2011

Can't say I blame Facebook.  Google+ may not be a facebook killer, but it will do some damage to them.

on Jul 14, 2011

Long as I have my 10 digits and can point to myself and say, "This is me.", I figure I own my digital identity.  

As for the plugin, got me own too...

myfist0, can't blame fb for blocking it but it's late in the game for them to be worrying about their population, isn't it?

Thanks for the article, btw.

on Jul 14, 2011

I really have no opinion on it but I though people following this thread would find it an interesting read.
You're quite welcome Doc  

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