If you spend some time with the privacy settings almost any service can mostly be private these days, even Facebook. With Google+, you can't actually see other peoples circles as to how many and what they're called, but you can tell by default who they have added in general and who have add them. However, you can choose not to share that information and most everything else by editing your profile. I just played with the privacy settings to confirm. Though the UI is not always clear that something has been made private, there is a preview mode in which you can impersonate a user to verify that the settings are correct.
Looks like they learned from the backlash with Buzz and it probably helped that Facebook has ironed out a lot of the privacy kinks. - Warren On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Karen Kreps <[email protected]>wrote: > I got an invite to join the beta testers of Google+ (it will be publicly > available at the end of this month) and I started to use it. Then I had > second thoughts. Do I want Google to know who all my friends, clients, > relatives are and every detail of my likes and dislikes? Do I want to spend > my valuable time organizing that info for Google? I know gmail is not > private and I assume Google will control all that info that I volunteer and > that my friends contribute. It may too late, they may already know vastly > more about myself than I realize, but I hesitate to use Google+ > > I have since then received a dozen requests from friends to connect to > their circles on Google+. Part of me wishes to respond quickly and accept > their invitations, but I have concerns. > > Would you care to share a few thoughts about this? Do we just accept that > there is no privacy left in life and go with the herd? I'd especially > welcome comments from security experts. > > TIA. > > KK > > -- > Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Refresh Austin" group. > > [ Posting ] > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy > We do not accept job posts from recruiters. > > [ Unsubscribe ] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > [ More Info ] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin > -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
