On Sep 25, 2012, at 11:11 PM, H. S. Teoh <[email protected]> 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. 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. Facebook has the community though, so that's what I actually use despite not really liking the interface or anything else.
