On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 19:52:26 Michael Mol wrote: > 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.'
When I received your Google+ invite I thought that Google was taking liberties with your actual intentions and spamming your contacts perhaps. I do have and use a gmail account for this list, but I do not (knowingly) partake in social websites like Google+, Buzz, Facebook & Twitter. I also use Gtalk for IM, but as far as I know by using Gmail and Gtalk I am not automatically subscribed to Google+ and the like. PS. What does "people to watch" do? It sounds rather voyeuristic ... O_o -- Regards, Mick
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