More Than Two-Thirds of Google+ Activity Is Private - Liz Gannes - Social. While following the activity of tech industry folks and celebrities on Google+ might lead you to believe that Google’s new social network is a sort of long-form Twitter, where users pontificate for a public audience, Google says that’s not the case.
(Seriously, watching the volume and speed of comments on new posts by Myspace founder and Google+’s leading armchair critic Tom Anderson is simply insane.) In fact, Google+ users are two to three times more likely to share privately with one of their Circles than post publicly, Google revealed for a profile in the San Jose Mercury News. (The Merc article talks about “general” posts, but Google+ commander Vic Gundotra clarified that this means “public” posts.) That’s an important metric, and one that validates Google+’s aim to be a more private social network. Google announced last week that Plus is already facilitating one billion items shared and received per day. Google+ forces us to question who owns our digital identiy. It took almost no time after the beta launch of Google+, the search and advertising giant's new social media experiment, before someone posted a web browser plug-in to help users scoop up their Facebook contacts and automatically invite them into the early adopters' cool new playground.
And it took little time after that before Facebook blocked this plug-in from working as designed on the grounds that it violated the site's terms of service. This tiff, a mini-battle in the internet-domination wars, could not have been a better demonstration of a reality that internet users tend to disregard: when we create "content" on services owned by others, we are granting them a great deal of control over what we've produced. We all need to face up to some issues surrounding control, including ownership and value. We've been too casual about this, and we can't afford to stay that way. Control, ownership and value are inextricably linked, but having one does not necessarily boost another. Google+ may carry dangers for photographers - BlogPost.
These photos, taken from my Google+ account, are now able to be “reproduced, adapted, modified, translated, published, publicly performed, and publicly displayed.”
(Image from Google+) Since Google+, Google’s answer to social networking, came out a week and a half ago, there’s been much talk about the new possibilities it has introduced, whether it can really beat out Facebook, and how to get that elusive invite. But the dangers of joining Google+ have not yet been fully explored. How far will Google go with targeted advertising? What will be the implications for our privacy? How will Google use my content once it’s part of Google+? The people who should be most worried about this last question are professional photographers, according to Photofocus, an online magazine about photography. How are your photos publicized. Google+ privacy: 5 settings you need to know. While Google's new social network, Google+, is barely a week old, it's already received a lot of attention from tech pundits and the social media community.
And as with any new online service, understanding how to control your information is essential. Here's a look at five important Google+ privacy settings that let you manage who can email you directly, how you're notified of Google+ actions, how to disable the Google+ service, and more. 1. Privacy Policy. There are many different ways you can use our services – to search for and share information, to communicate with other people or to create new content.
When you share information with us, for example by creating a Google Account, we can make those services even better – to show you more relevant search results and ads, to help you connect with people or to make sharing with others quicker and easier. As you use our services, we want you to be clear how we’re using information and the ways in which you can protect your privacy. Our Privacy Policy explains: What information we collect and why we collect it. Gearing Up for Google+ Privacy Settings - Digits. Keeping personal information out of Google - Webmaster Tools Help. È difficile tenere le informazioni personali fuori dal Web.
Quasi tutte le persone fanno parte di social network, pubblicano fotografie, scrivono blog o hanno siti personali o professionali. Ma ciò non significa che vogliano vedere visualizzate tali informazioni nei risultati di ricerca. Di seguito sono riportati alcuni consigli per controllare la tua reputazione online. Pensaci due volte prima di inserire informazioni personali online Alcuni siti, come i siti dei social network e i siti di condivisione di foto, possono essere condivisi con la famiglia e gli amici. Rimozione di contenuti indesiderati dal Web Pagine e siti possono essere rimossi dai risultati di ricerca di Google dai webmaster dei siti o da Google. Che cosa desideri fare? Contrasta le informazioni negative con informazioni utili e positive Ti potrebbe capitare di non riuscire a metterti in contatto con il webmaster di un sito oppure che il webmaster si rifiuti di rimuovere i contenuti in questione.