[OT] Was: totally satisfied :D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:42:26PM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/25/12 7:24 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >Me too. My wife has FB, and that's good enough for me.
> >
> >Sad to say, though, I got suckered into signing up for Google+.
> 
> No Facebook but Google+? That's it. You're out. Use Go.
[...]

Heh heh... I was half-expecting you'd show up in this thread after all
the anti-FB sentiment, and sure enough you did. ;-)

Seriously, though, no offense intended, but I find FB's privacy policy
rather ... lacking for my tastes. That's not to say G+ isn't susceptible
to Big Brotherisms, of course, Google being what it is, but at least it
gives you the illusion of control, like controlling who sees which posts
(which FB imitated after the fact, if you allow me to say so), easier
management of friends with the circles system, being able to delete your
account data without caveats and jumping through hoops, etc..

But anyway, I hardly ever use my G+ account... Like I said, most of the
posts are a waste of time to read, and I don't feel a compelling need to
add to the noise or to publish my personal life online. So *shrug*.


T

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