On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote:
[snip] > PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently, but > are > you aware that they scanned your address book and spammed around about it? > There are some of us who don’t want to be part of any social moloch. > No, they didn't crawl my address book, or do anything of the sort. On Google+, I follow people who I believe (or at least suspect) to be intelligent or knowledgeable in technical fields. That includes everyone on the gentoo-user and gentoo-dev mailing lists; you folks are among the highest grade of computer and software geeks I've come across. In the GMail web interface, there's a pane on the right which shows people involved in the conversation. While reading Gentoo-related threads, if I see people listed there that I haven't added to my 'Technical folk' circle, I add them. I _thought_ it was only showing people who already had Google accounts. Apparently, that last presumption isn't true...and as a consequence, when I add people to my list-of-people-to-watch, Google sends them an invite if they don't already have Google accounts. Apologies for any spam, but understand that I have no clear way of knowing whether or not someone has a Google+ account before I add them; people who don't have them simply show up as 'this person hasn't shared anything with you.' -- :wq
