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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> wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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> > PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently, 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 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 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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> In the GMail web interface, there's a pane on the right which shows 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' 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, 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 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 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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PS. What does "people to watch" do? It sounds rather voyeuristic ... O_o |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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