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I have Google+ and am a bit unimpressed right now. It's just Facebook without the games and adverts. Worrying though - it's picked up my home and mobile numbers and other email addresses I own, and inserted them into what looks like a public profile. And I can find no way of removing them.....
 
brykins said:
I have Google+ and am a bit unimpressed right now. It's just Facebook without the games and adverts. Worrying though - it's picked up my home and mobile numbers and other email addresses I own, and inserted them into what looks like a public profile. And I can find no way of removing them.....
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I don't think that information is public although it does look that way in some places. I found a place to check though.

Go to the main Google+ screen.
Click on your name.
On the right side, there's a box that says something like "View profile as..."

If you click there, you can view what your profile looks like to the rest of the world.
 
Sorted it. It's very confusing but what is happening is when I view a profile on my iPad, it takes contact details held LOCALLY and displays that. So when I view my own About details, it grabs phone numbers and email addresses from my own entry in my address book.

I've tested this - viewed the About of someone NOT in my contacts and there was nothing.

Viewed the About of someone else that WAS in my contacts and there was his phone number. I edited his phone number locally in my contacts, refreshed the page and the edited number was shown.

Panic over.
 
I can't imagine Twitter being that worried about Google+. Twitter enables you to meet new people as it's not limited to a circle of "friends". G+ seems to have gone down the route of "friends" and closed groups to communicate with, just like Facebook.

With so many people using both Facebook and Twitter, I don't believe that G+ is anything significantly better or different to have much of an impact. I am very much reminded of Google Wave here.
 
I got in, thanks Brian and the other guy (whose name I will withhold since it's not in their name here) for sending me invites. I have no idea if I just got lucky with getting a hole of entry or if it took a few invites to make it.
 
sethman88 said:
I wouldnt trust google they have a lot of flaws, I remember when they had a lot of problems with their gmail and the online version of word document and such, googles people were reading and looking at other people personal info, and allowing other people to do the same, whose to say that once their version of social networking isnt an attmept to see what everyone of their memebers is doing and look at personal information and use it against us in some way
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I trust google more than facebook. Facebook has much bigger privacy concerns and refuse to fix them, and they like to fling dirt at google. Google>facebook.
 
Droid Shark said:
New to the forum and droid, but if someone could help out with a gplus invite I'd sure be thankful. Bttwshark gmail. Thanks!
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No one can at the moment. Invites have been shut down, and they have blocked the only known loophole for getting invites. Sadly, you'll just have to sit tight like the rest of us.
 
Fadelight said:
No one can at the moment. Invites have been shut down, and they have blocked the only known loophole for getting invites. Sadly, you'll just have to sit tight like the rest of us.
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Yeah, saw that. Wasn't sure if it still let the invites out, and then you just had to wait to complete. Thanks fade! :)
 
In the hopes that google re-opens and in my desperation if anyone has a spare invite may you consider me :) iwearmynikes at gmail
 
Managed to get in a little while ago. Invite was from yesterday and must have hit 'apply' dozens of times before I was accepted.
 
brykins said:
I can't imagine Twitter being that worried about Google+. Twitter enables you to meet new people as it's not limited to a circle of "friends". G+ seems to have gone down the route of "friends" and closed groups to communicate with, just like Facebook.

With so many people using both Facebook and Twitter, I don't believe that G+ is anything significantly better or different to have much of an impact. I am very much reminded of Google Wave here.
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Actually that's not quite accurate... in G+ you can add someone to one of your circles but it does not automatically add you to their circle. In essense you are "following" them just like it's done in Twitter. And the individual you are "following" is under no obligation to follow you.

From what I'm seeing so far a circle is little more than a way to define logical groupings of individuals within G+. If they are friends place them in the default "friends" group, if they are family place them in the default "family" group, and if you just want to hear what they have to say (ala Twitter), place them in the default "following" group. An example it gives in the G+ help is that if you wanted to announce your engagement on G+ you could post the message and only show it to members of your friends and family circles. This is something that's not enabled by default on Facebook and, to the best of my knowledge, not available on Twitter.

Whether or not G+ will overtake Twitter or Facebook remains to be seen... but personally I find it a refreshing alternative (thus far) to the cacophony of useless noise that tends to be Twitter and Facebook.
 
Wish you could easily "Link" circles
I.E. You've got 20+ Family members in your "Family Circle"
20+ Friends in a "Friends" Circle, then have the ability to create / link a Family & Friends Circle and just drag both circles into the new one to import all 40 names.
 
The invites seem to be gated, my original gmail account couldn't get in last week after being invited and 2 days ago it finally got in, so just keep trying.
 
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