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Google+..bye bye Facebook!

Dakota rube

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Originally Posted by Rambo
How are they, in any way, different from Facebook?
In my mind, FB has **** on it people put there on purpose. Google, oth, sniffs emails, (maybe) online documents, one's search history, etc. Just seems more sinister to me. Probably just my ancient, drug-addled brain though.
 

lefty

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You're old enough to remember privacy and anonymity.

Google also scares me. I have a conversation with my wife and somehow google begins to send me targeted ads.

lefty
 

dcg

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Originally Posted by JMRouse
I'm going to jump on the bandwagon here and say I would love an invite if anyone can do it.
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+1!
 

dcg

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Originally Posted by lefty
You're old enough to remember privacy and anonymity.

Google also scares me. I have a conversation with my wife and somehow google begins to send me targeted ads.

lefty


You may find this book of interest:

http://www.amazon.com/Filter-Bubble-...9547523&sr=8-1

(I have not read it, but spoke with the author for about an hour).
 

rjakapeanut

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Originally Posted by imageWIS
Google tries a lot of ****, some of it sticks, some of it doesn't... lets see where this goes. I will say this, Android is a great way for them to integrate this.

hahaha yeah, that made me laugh because it's so true. google comes out with SO much ****. they don't filter anything out.
 

Stazy

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I'm in! If you've got a gmail account pm me your email and I'll hook you guys up.
 

Huntsman

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Originally Posted by Dakota rube
Google scares the **** out of me. Well, maybe not, but they have managed to get their hands on an awful lot of personal and perhaps secret information.
As it is, I use Facebook in its own Opera session and use Firefox for everything else -- no cross contamination.
 

Achillus

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Can someone send me an invite?
 

yjeezle

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would love to get in on this to try it out....
 

Stazy

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Originally Posted by Achillus
Can someone send me an invite?

Send me a PM with your email address.
 

Davidko19

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Originally Posted by Huntsman
As it is, I use Facebook in its own Opera session and use Firefox for everything else -- no cross contamination.

why? sounds a little much
 

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Anyone wants to try out G+, send me a PM with your email address. Not sure if you need to be a gmail user though.
 

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