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o3jeff
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Everything is starting to link itself together, Your pig picture comes up next to you name on my phone and I have a pic of wa-loaf in his viking hat!
Yeah, I'm not sure why it picked the old smiling pig profile picture, but I just rolled with it. I guess I set my Google profile up with it at some point.
o3jeff
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Can all of us video chat tonight?
What do you mean?
I found a link that describes it:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/al...ic-private-profiles-deleted-on-july-31st/3111
Interesting. Thanks for the link. Doesn't affect me, but I could imagine it will piss some people off.
You can get further locked down than that. So someone searching you won't find you by your name or even if they have your email they can't find you. You won't show up in friend lists either.
Sounds like you'll still be able to setup your Google profile to that level of privacy. I don't think I share much more to non-friends on my profile either.
ctenidae
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That's me- my profile page says nothing- only my name, and I'm by far not the only person with that name.
This is the level of privacy that Google seems intent on eliminating. Being that locked down kind of defeats the purpose of being on a social networking site, IMHO, anyway. Though I don't really see the harm in letting someone doing so if they so desire.
o3jeff
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Work can check up on you or potential employers looking to see what you're about. Actually the stupid young girl that USED to work here must of thought her page was all locked down, when in fact it wasn't and the shit she used to write about work on her wall and were she really was when she called in sick....
I understand that, which is why I generally don't post about work.
You can still have it set so that non-friends aren't able to see what's on your wall, without having it appear that you're not even on FB at all. That's the level we're talking about; making it so that people who are not on your friends list can't even tell that you're on there at all.I noticed on FB, that you can view your profile as it's seen by others searching for you. I didn't know you could lock it down further. That's good to know.
And speaking of work...I beleive there are some vendors out there that offer a FB search service/software to check up on potential employees. And here's a does of irony': We couldn't do that at work because FB is blocked.
And speaking of work...I beleive there are some vendors out there that offer a FB search service/software to check up on potential employees. And here's a does of irony': We couldn't do that at work because FB is blocked.
I didn't check FB from work for the longest time because I assumed it was blocked or would be soon. I guess they don't care that much. Some other random sites are blocked though...
riverc0il
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I take back all my negative commentary from when I first saw the release videos for G+. It is now FAR superior to Facebook. It is Geek Central right now over there (awesome). But aside from the culture of G+, the UI and visual presentation is slick and visually appealing. Folks actually make some well written longer posts. Most of my "friends" on Facebook don't have G+ accounts which is the only draw back.
But I am confident G+ will continue to add users as word gets out how much better the interface is and how much better the post quality is than Facebook. Android and the integration of all apps Google is certainly going to help that push too. And while both Facebook and Google are both out to monetize your browsing habits, I feel Google is a a little more user friendly and a little less "evil". Facebook just seems hell bent on doing stuff that users don't like.
It seems the worst thing Google did with G+ was that limited invite only thing when it first started. I know they wanted to get the kinks out. But that really limited the buzz of G+ and limited the amount of folks that eventually got accounts when it opened up. Goodness knows I created an account as soon as I could, didn't like it, and only just went back to try it recently.
Any ways, give it a try if you haven't yet. G+ does a great job filtering stuff into your stream that is relevant and interesting.
But I am confident G+ will continue to add users as word gets out how much better the interface is and how much better the post quality is than Facebook. Android and the integration of all apps Google is certainly going to help that push too. And while both Facebook and Google are both out to monetize your browsing habits, I feel Google is a a little more user friendly and a little less "evil". Facebook just seems hell bent on doing stuff that users don't like.
It seems the worst thing Google did with G+ was that limited invite only thing when it first started. I know they wanted to get the kinks out. But that really limited the buzz of G+ and limited the amount of folks that eventually got accounts when it opened up. Goodness knows I created an account as soon as I could, didn't like it, and only just went back to try it recently.
Any ways, give it a try if you haven't yet. G+ does a great job filtering stuff into your stream that is relevant and interesting.
I agree that it's better than FB. Aside from being geek central there's quite a bit of interesting photography content on there, if you're into that sort of thing. I just wish that more people that I actually know would use it, since I don't have any real personal connections there I find myself not using it very much.
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