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insomniasexx  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Will Google+ ever take the dominant share of the social media market?
I feel like Google+ could have been awesome. I predicted a mass exodus from facebook -> google+ similar to what we saw with myspace/facebook.

But nope. Something just isn't right.

Now I think google should start laying off products. While I used to love Google, I'm getting scared of all the information I have stored with them. I'm slowly moving away from things like calendar, google+, my contacts, etc. They obviously aren't following their "Do no evil" policy any longer, and I'm not going to wait until it's too late.





mk  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Today when I was looking at an email, gmail had a little thumbnail of a picture of me and our new daughter in the upper right. I didn't post it, it isn't my profile picture, and I wasn't looking in an email that had that picture.

It said 'Recent photos'.

After some digging, I found that it was a picture that I sent to my brother some time ago. Why was it popping up in another email? Why do they think I'd like a random assortment of images that I have previously sent to pop up on the right of my screen? WTF is that?

insomniasexx  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
The creepiest thing was the auto upload feature on phones. I would get notification in my browser "you have new auto uploaded images...click to share."

Scared the absolute fuck out of me the first couple times...especially since the images were NSFW.

mk  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Google knows you wanted to upload them. It's what's best, really. :/

Oh, nice... the 'recent photos' includes pics that other people have sent me too. Great, I could just email a bunch of cock pics around to my email list, and everyone can enjoy those little thumbnails for the next few weeks. Why do other people get to choose what pictures I see when I am using my email?

insomniasexx  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
    Great, I could just email a bunch of cock pics...

Make sure you start with me

mk  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
er... ok, poor example.
thenewgreen  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
HA HA HA. Please take me off your distribution list.
dublinben  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
That's an optional feature that doesn't even publish the pictures until you choose to. You don't have to criticize Google based on lies.
insomniasexx  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I think you need to learn how to read. It scared me because I saw the image in google+ notification window. Take a chill pill, fan boy.
dublinben  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
That's pretty uncalled for.
insomniasexx  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
You called me a liar and put words in my mouth. Was that called for?
thenewgreen  ·  4586 days ago  ·  link  ·  
At this point the "Do no Evil" slogan seems like a joke, doesn't it?