Google+ Is it the answer to Facebook? - Page 9

Alex · 07-08-2011, 09:54 PM

Work was very on the ball and had Google+ blocked several days ago.

BarTopDancer · 07-08-2011, 09:59 PM

Going through the steps to join.

All private Google profiles will be deleted at the end of July

You have to link your Picasa album with Google+.

I am seriously confused about people who I am not friends with on Facebook OR have their addresses are showing up. They are friends of my friend. WTF.

Ghoulish Delight · 07-08-2011, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I am seriously confused about people who I am not friends with on Facebook OR have their addresses are showing up. They are friends of my friend. WTF.

They are just showing up as suggestions. Until you add them to a circle they can't see your posts.

BarTopDancer · 07-08-2011, 10:30 PM

I know, I'm channeling

with my negativity about this. It's just... I dunno. I think my FB status summed it up best:

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Whenever I go to join Google+ I see/hear Googlezon and SciFi in the back of my mind. We have been assimilated. Resistance is futile. What happened before will happen again. End of line. Frack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT9ho...ature=youtu.be

Alex · 07-08-2011, 10:32 PM

But on the other hand is there a bit of dissonance in worrying about assimilation by Google on Facebook?

Other than search, Facebook is just as interested in owning and knowing everything about you.

BarTopDancer · 07-08-2011, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex

But on the other hand is there a bit of dissonance in worrying about assimilation by Google on Facebook?

Other than search, Facebook is just as interested in owning and knowing everything about you.

When Facebook launches a search engine I'll be a bit more concerned.

Moonliner · 07-09-2011, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

But on the other hand is there a bit of dissonance in worrying about assimilation by Google on Facebook?

Other than search, Facebook is just as interested in owning and knowing everything about you.

Google+ wants to gather as much information as possible about me in order to pimp it out to corporations.

Facebook wants to gather as much information as possible about me in order to pimp it out to corporations and share it with my mother, brother, relatives, friends, etc...

To me that makes one annoying and the other inherently evil.

Alex · 07-08-2011, 10:42 PM

Have you seen Facebook's integration with Bing? I would suspect a lot of that data flows both ways. Or that they to a large extent don't need to know what you're searching because if you browse while logged in they are getting pretty good information on where you actually go (since so many sites use Facebook features).

BarTopDancer · 07-08-2011, 10:52 PM

But I don't use Bing.

And shush anyway.

(simile intentional).

Alex · 07-08-2011, 10:56 PM

metaphor accidental.

synecdoche manslaughter in the second degree.

metonymy in your face aggressive.

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Have you seen Facebook's integration with Bing? I would suspect a lot of that data flows both ways. Or that they to a large extent don't need to know what you're searching because if you browse while logged in they are getting pretty good information on where you actually go (since so many sites use Facebook features).
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BarTopDancer Prepping... Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Here, there, everywhere Posts: 11,405	But I don't use Bing. And shush anyway. (simile intentional). __________________ Spork is the new MacGyver Postcards From My Edge
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	metaphor accidental. synecdoche manslaughter in the second degree. metonymy in your face aggressive.
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