[OT] Was: totally satisfied :D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:30:43AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2012, at 11:11 PM, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> 
> > 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..
> 
> Google+ is an opt-out service rather than an opt-in service if you
> have a gmail account, so that you have G+ isn't surprising.

I don't have a gmail account, though. I hate webmails with a passion.


> Personally, I really like the G+ interface.  It does exactly what I
> want simply and succinctly, which is shocking from a Google product as
> typically, I'd hold up their apps as examples of terrible UI designs.

Haha, yeah, I like the G+ interface better than FB, too.


> Facebook has the community though, so that's what I actually use
> despite not really liking the interface or anything else.

True, but I've always liked rooting for the underdog, so I like to
promote non-FB to all my contacts. :)


T

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