Comments on: Hey Google — your G+ desperation is showing

By: Rai Abhinav

Rai Abhinav — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:28:00 +0000

wait! The days are not far when to search on Google you have to log in to your account. I am completely OK with it what ever Google is doing because same people who rant so much about Google privacy policy and transformation will Go on Facebook and will surrender to all the policies of Facebook. How many times Mr wheaton has read the policy of Facebook and how much Facebook impact our navigation inside Facebook 99% of people don’t have any idea.

Google was not left with any choice. He could not allow Facebook to Gobble whole internet. They have to transform. They have to know everyone who ever is using any services of Google. The transformation of Google is just because of US. I feel pretty safe in giving my details to Google that Facebook.
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By: Hemendra Kumar Saini

Hemendra Kumar Saini — Fri, 04 May 2012 09:40:24 +0000

After 5 years we will be discussing on how Google fall due to Google+, they haven’t spare Gmail, Blogger, and Picasa, so where Youtube will stand out. It also need to be sync with Google+.

By: Wilson Zorn

Wilson Zorn — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:53:06 +0000

But I believe, with respect, you miss the point that one does not have to have a G+ signin to use a single Google property; I can have Youtube and Picasa access without a G+ account. Many users of those properties do not want to convert to G+.

By: Wilson Zorn

Wilson Zorn — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:50:42 +0000

To Marc, below, et. al., regarding “People don’t get up in arms about using the same FB sign in to post a message or play a game,” actually indeed some people, however few, do. While I have an FB account, I only use it for very limited circumstances. When I go to a site that requires FB login to comment or FB for a +1, I simply refuse to engage rather than use my FB login; I have no desire to give FB the information, end of story.

I also have a G+ account and Youtube account. While I was annoyed they forced those logins to be shared, I did accept that. But many people are on Youtube and engage there with no desire to use a G+ account; it seems to me counter-productive for Google to potentially lose those users’ input or lose those users entirely, as I have been lost on sites that have gone to FB-only login.

By: Anna Libertas

Anna Libertas — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:15:00 +0000

I was one of the ones who was stuck with a “share on google+” button instead of a thumbs up for a few weeks. If you just ignore it and use the thumbs up/down button at the end of the video (top right corner) it will eventually go away.

I was actually using google+ before that, googles pushiness was the reason I quit.

By: eli goldmeir

eli goldmeir — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:42:56 +0000

Bumper stickers seen in San Francisco read:

“Google is NOT your friend!”

and

“FUCK GOOGLE!”

By: ner

ner — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:08:22 +0000

What a bunch of whiners.

By: Hariharan

Hariharan — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:38:59 +0000

I’m sorry, “the kind of goodwill that a successful social network requires”? On what planet does Facebook have goodwill from its users?

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:43:47 +0000

Not everyone uses Google. Why should I have to join them in order to “thumbs up” something on You Tube?

By: Seth Thomas

Seth Thomas — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:37:36 +0000

The difference between the reality and the perception of what Google+ is causes most of these problems.

Google+ is, at its core, a single-sign-on solution that exists across all Google properties with a not-so-subtle encouragement to represent yourself as a real-life person. You don’t even have to have a ‘social network’ (group of friends) connected to your account to use the Google+ sign-on.

As far as privacy is concerned, you can still use a pseudonym if you want and, in my opinion, Google has created the most straightforward and powerful social permissions system (who you’re sharing with) of any digital product.

The precedent of Facebook, an exclusively social web service, is really skewing expectations of Google+. The truth is that you can use Google+ anywhere on the continuum of ‘totally private SSO’ to ‘extremely open social network’. I, for one, and impressed with Google’s accomplishment on their social feature integration. Systems this complex and contentious aren’t easy to architect.