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This crap is exactly why I don't have a G+ account and am distancing myself from FaceBook. They do things which put my privacy at risk without considering anything more than what it does for their bottom line.
Recently FB attempted to assign everyone an @FB.COM email address and make it the primary contact address. As far as I can tell, this was shouted down.
Before FB revised their privacy policy a couple years ago to grudgingly allow that maybe people do have a certain right to a little control. They allowed any entity who you might have liked or signed up for a game with to have complete access to all of your personal information. After they revised the policy they grandfathered these cretins in and made it very difficult to deny them continued access.
Don't believe me? Try to block Zynga without logging into your FB page.
Now Google is nagging me for my cellphone number. WHY IN GOD'S NAME WOULD I GIVE GOOGLE MY CELL PHONE NUMBER? They can contact me the same way any other spammer can. Through my junk mail folder.
Cheers!
Commented Jul 3, 2012 on Google is doing it wrong. Again. at WWdN: In Exile
Google is doing it wrong. Again.
I'm putting this update at the top of this post as well as at the bottom, so nobody misses it: Updated: It appears that Google engineers are actively working on a way to fix this thing, and that it may not have been intentional. I sincerely hope that that's the case, and will just point out that...
Yes WilWheaton...everything you just said...
Commented Jun 5, 2012 on This is really obnoxious, TypePad at WWdN: In Exile
This is really obnoxious, TypePad
Oh, hey, look! It's time for another ranty rant about the Internet. I swear to FSM, I've become Grandpa Simpson. When TypePad was bought by an advertising company, we all knew the clock was ticking, and it would eventually be time to start looking for an alternative. To be honest, I'm surprised ...
But! But! But ..... you are doing exactly the same thing on your blog. When I tried to comment here, on this post, I was forced to login from one of several social media 'handles' or to sign up for another in a long string of Social Media sites
I refuse to use Facebook or Twitter for this purpose because whenever I have logged in with those in the past, all of a sudden every comment I make is tweeted, or inserted onto my Facebook wall for everyone I know to see. I want a certain amount of anonymity (although I do tend to use the same nom de plume ) I don't feel that everyone I know wants to be kept apprised of my opinions of your blog.. or anything else at a moments notice.
I have never linked any of my social media personas together and resent being forced to do so to express an opinion about something. If Google forces me to sign up for G+ I will close my YouTube account and stop using Google services altogether.
It is getting easier to just not comment at all rather than deal with this crap.
Homogeneous internet = Stifled opinion..IMHO
Commented May 5, 2012 on Google is making a huge and annoying mistake. at WWdN: In Exile
Google is making a huge and annoying mistake.
I like Google Plus. Some of the smartest people I've ever read are on Google Plus, and the Hangout is amazing. But Google is doing everything it can to force Google Plus on everyone, and it's pissing me off. Yesterday, I tried to like a video on YouTube. I wasn't signed in to my Google Plus acco...
I love good family entertainment.
Commented Oct 18, 2011 on Flash Fiction: The Monster In My Closet at WWdN: In Exile
Flash Fiction: The Monster In My Closet
About two hours ago, I thought to myself, "'There's a monster in my closet' would be a neat way to start out one of those scary short stories I loved to read when I was in middle school." I wrote it down, then wrote a little more and a little more. Right around the time I realized I had no idea ...
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