Google+

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https://plus.google.com/welcome#welcome

Sign up to be notified when they add more people if you're the social networking sort because it's awesome! It does everything Facebook does and better! I can't wait for them to add people so the activity level picks up even more. It's really easy and simple to make groups and control privacy. The privacy is integrated so well it requires no extra effort.

[Muhaha]

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Yeah I've thinking about jumping on this band wagon. It sort of sounds like a scary thing though because it's Google. Do people really need to make that company even more powerful?

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<3 Google

If you do things right, you're successful. Google does it right and they have earned their success. The search engine, the maps, the email, mobile os, the browser, scholar (I haven't used any other search engine to do scholarly research for like 5 years), the voip service, the voicemail service, the translator, etc. to name but a few.

[Sip]

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Yeah I've thinking about jumping on this band wagon. It sort of sounds like a scary thing though because it's Google. Do people really need to make that company even more powerful?

Between all the big tech giants, especially between facebook and google, I much rather have my data in the hands of Google. However I do agree with you that it is scary how much we are putting in the hands of these big companies. One nice feature Google has added that I wish everyone would add is an easy way to pack up all your data and take a copy of it (with Google+) ... I haven't tried it though so I don't know how well it works.

[MrHyeSev]

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I like google also everything is so neat compared to others
Explorer is trash
Firefox is ok sometimes

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Between all the big tech giants, especially between facebook and google, I much rather have my data in the hands of Google. However I do agree with you that it is scary how much we are putting in the hands of these big companies. One nice feature Google has added that I wish everyone would add is an easy way to pack up all your data and take a copy of it (with Google+) ... I haven't tried it though so I don't know how well it works.

You don't mean the auto-upload for pics and video, do you?

I like google also everything is so neat compared to others
Explorer is trash
Firefox is ok sometimes

We're not talking about browsers you realize...?

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Want to add: You can also edit your posts (no more deleting and reposting to fix errors) and there's group video conferencing.

[bell-the-cat]

Re: Google+

https://plus.google.com/welcome#welcome

Sign up to be notified when they add more people if you're the social networking sort because it's awesome! It does everything Facebook does and better! I can't wait for them to add people so the activity level picks up even more. It's really easy and simple to make groups and control privacy. The privacy is integrated so well it requires no extra effort.

Fine if you want to risk everything you ever do or say or buy or visit to be recorded in some database - to be sold to whoever Google wants, or to be released to whatever state or organization Google needs to cozy up to.

[Sip]

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I don't think you can ever have any true notion of privacy on the Internet ... regardless of who you are dealing with. The same goes with pretty much any form of communication (phone, email, telegraph, smoke signals, letters written in blood carried by pidgeons, etc)

You can go as far as locking yourself inside a box and someone will surely figure out a way to spy on you with thermal cameras, x-rays, or quantum space fluctuation meters

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You don't mean the auto-upload for pics and video, do you?

I was talking about what google calls "data liberation". In your account settings you can download all your picasa photos, contacts and circles, streamed stuff, etc if you want a full backup that's not in only in Google's hands.