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On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 19:52:26 Michael Mol wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> |
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> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > [snip] |
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> > > PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently, |
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> but |
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> > > are |
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> > > you aware that they scanned your address book and spammed around about |
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> > > it? There are some of us who don’t want to be part of any social |
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> moloch. |
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> > No, they didn't crawl my address book, or do anything of the sort. |
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> > On Google+, I follow people who I believe (or at least suspect) to be |
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> > intelligent or knowledgeable in technical fields. That includes everyone |
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> on |
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> > the gentoo-user and gentoo-dev mailing lists; you folks are among the |
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> > highest grade of computer and software geeks I've come across. |
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> > |
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> > In the GMail web interface, there's a pane on the right which shows |
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> people |
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> > involved in the conversation. While reading Gentoo-related threads, if I |
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> > see people listed there that I haven't added to my 'Technical folk' |
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> circle, |
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> > I add them. I _thought_ it was only showing people who already had Google |
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> > accounts. |
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> > Apparently, that last presumption isn't true...and as a consequence, |
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> when I |
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> > add people to my list-of-people-to-watch, Google sends them an invite if |
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> > they don't already have Google accounts. Apologies for any spam, but |
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> > understand that I have no clear way of knowing whether or not someone |
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> has a |
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> > Google+ account before I add them; people who don't have them simply show |
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> > up as 'this person hasn't shared anything with you.' |
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> When I received your Google+ invite I thought that Google was taking |
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> liberties |
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> with your actual intentions and spamming your contacts perhaps. |
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> I do have and use a gmail account for this list, but I do not (knowingly) |
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> partake in social websites like Google+, Buzz, Facebook & Twitter. I also |
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> use Gtalk for IM, but as far as I know by using Gmail and Gtalk I am not |
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> automatically subscribed to Google+ and the like. |
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> |
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The whole situation is muddy, and I'm not always sure I understand it |
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myself. |
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If you have an account with any Google service, you have a 'Google Account' |
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which you can use to sign into any other Google service. At one point, |
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simply having this account meant you were also on Google+, Google Docs, |
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etc. More recently, though, it seems that a first visit to any of these |
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services is required in order to activate that service on your Google |
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account. (This only became clear to me recently, as a new client uses |
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Google Apps for Domains, which means I now have a Google account for |
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personal use, and a Google account tied to that client. It's strange.) |
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It used to be, you only had a Google account if you had a GMail |
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account...but they've since enabled tying Google accounts to other email |
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addresses. |
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> PS. What does "people to watch" do? It sounds rather voyeuristic ... O_o |
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Here's how I understand it, currently: |
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If you have Google+ enabled on your Google account, just about anything you |
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might do that involves Google becomes eligible for sharing. By default, |
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almost nothing you do is visible to anybody; you have to explicitly make |
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things visible to people, or otherwise modify defaults in settings |
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somewhere. AFAIK, the only things that are public by default are the '+1' |
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buttons sprinkled everywhere, and the 'Like' buttons associated with |
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Youtube videos. |
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Places I frequently see 'share this' options associated with Google are: |
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* Youtube videos |
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* Google Reader (+1 and 'share this' replaced 'like' and 'share with |
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friends') |
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* The "+ Share" box at the top right corner of all Google pages. |
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In short, I only see stuff you guys do if you explicitly choose to make it |
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public. (Or if you create a 'circle' of whitelisted individuals you can |
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make specific things viewable to.) |
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:wq |