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A sigh of relief has been heard across the Internet as behemoth Google has finally relented in it's ever intruding necessity to have a Google+ account from every service and function from signing up for Gmail to posting comments on YouTube.
From Slate to The Verge and everywhere in between there is dancing in the streets as Google finally got the message... no, not today Google, I don't want Plus. Plus will not be going away, it will become it's own property, left to stand on it's own, and unhooked from every Google service under the sun.
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(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Tuesday August 04 2015, @12:44AM
I dunno, I quite identify with what Common Joe is saying. These days it is weird if you don't have a social media presence.
So be "weird"; who cares? But he said that "being social" necessitates social media, which is false.
My profile picture is me, pics of my wife and kids are their pics, but I don't post my thought for the day or pics of my lunch or anything like that.
You've given them some nice facial recognition material. I feel sorry for the kids, because they're probably not old enough to understand the issue. When I was growing up, we didn't have things like Facebook, so my parents never had a chance to upload pictures to websites owned by giant privacy-invading anonymity-destroying corporations. One of my younger family members did grow up with social media nonsense, but they chose never to create any accounts and understand the privacy issue; if someone else uploaded pictures of them, they wouldn't even have a choice.
Unless I misunderstood that and they uploaded pictures themselves. But I do see people kind of forcing the social media nonsense on their kids. And even when it is voluntary, once these companies have your information, good luck ensuring that it's deleted if you ever change your mind.