Say hello to Google+ and wave goodbye to Google

Whether you like Google+ integration or not, as far as Google is concerned, there’s no turning back now. In an interview with Livemint, Google’s Steve Grove, director of partnerships for Google+, went into some detail about how the company plans to stretch Google+ even further in the future: “We’ve been consolidating the different services, so today Search, YouTube, the Google Play app store, all this plugs into Google+. And the reason for that is that Google+ is kind of like the next version of Google.”

Google+ is a Facebook type network which you may not realise you are already part of if you use Gmail or YouTube. But with Google’s plans this could be stretched even further.

Just how will you feel about this move and your lack of privacy ?

1 thought on “Say hello to Google+ and wave goodbye to Google

  1. Sometimes I wonder if we take the privacy issues all a bit err shall I say “over the top”!
    Let’s look at just one aspect of what the lack of privacy gives us:- ‘Spam’ or ‘Junk mail’.
    Yes, it can be annoying when someone is watching over you delivering all manner of emails that you never subscribed to or asked for.
    To answer that though, I just treat them like the rubbish I get through my letter box ~ straight to the recycle bin.
    However, in the case of the rubbish I receive through my letter box it doesn’t stop me from having a quick read of them on the way to my blue recycle bin and every now and again there will be one piece of paper that will suddenly make me turn in my tracks head back inside and pin the leaflet to my cork board in the Utility Room.
    It’s the same with ‘junk mail’. Most of it goes straight to the Spam folder anyway but I’ll always check through what’s received just in case there is something of interest.

    So, I say to myself if privacy were stronger and I no longer had to continually look over my shoulder could I manage…… Of course I could but it wouldn’t be have as much fun.

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