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leora

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Jun 30, 2011 12:42

So, I'm waiting until it will let me invite people, which will apparently happen now and then, as it feels it can handle more growth. I have to catch it when it's willing to grow. As to what it's like... ummm, the interface seems pretty easy to use. The feedback reporting is fantastic though. I reported a suggestion, and it will take a screenshot ( Read more... )

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siderea June 30 2011, 20:30:28 UTC

Does the ToS prevent one person from having multiple accounts?

I am potentially interested in an invite.

leora June 30 2011, 20:37:38 UTC

I do not see anything in it that does. I saw a discussion on this point, and I haven't seen anything pointing to it not being allowed. The Terms of Service are located at http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS, which I am expecting you should be able to see without an account. I will keep looking around to see if there seems to be anything I am missing.

leora June 30 2011, 20:43:00 UTC

However, there doesn't seem to be any way to have a Google+ that isn't linked to a Google account. Which I think means a Google email address. So, you would need two of those. It also wants to link in your Picasa stuff, if you have any, but it won't change your privacy settings.

lady_guenievre July 1 2011, 00:01:45 UTC

It also doesn't work with google apps accounts, which was disappointing...

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youngwilliam June 30 2011, 22:01:19 UTC

I'm wondering what will come of the folks that I have put in Circles through the address book thing, and if it'll auto-Circle them if/when they get Google+ accounts as well.

leora June 30 2011, 22:03:48 UTC

I believe it will notify them that you have added them. It may try to invite them to join. They will be in whatever of your circles you add them to, but this will only be relevant if they join.

I have been avoiding doing this, as I don't want to send potentially annoying emails to people who don't care about Google+. Nor do I want anyone to feel pressured to join if they don't want to. I'm trying to do my usual, add people who want me to add them that I am comfortable adding. Help people who want access to gain access if I can (which I still can't, but at some point I expect to be able to). But I don't want anyone to feel they have to do anything in particular.

youngwilliam July 1 2011, 10:06:13 UTC

In playing around with it, just adding them to a Circle doesn't seem to do anything on their end.

But! (dramatic pause) With the current embargo on Invites? One can currently get around that by adding folks who have Gmail to some Circle, then addressing a post to the folks in that Circle.

It'll E-Mail them, and if they follow the link in the E-Mail to reply, it'll let them make a Google+ account of their own.

So if someone is asking you for an Invite, and they have Gmail, this trick'll work (for now).

donaithnen July 1 2011, 02:04:08 UTC

I was reading earlier that there's actual an option somewhere to disable all resharing. Supposedly it also automatically lets you know whenever anyone reshares things, so it's still a risk but at least you'll know when it happens.

leora July 1 2011, 02:15:52 UTC

Interesting. I haven't figured it out much yet. I'm not too worried about it. First off, so far I have only posted publicly, so there's no privacy I'm concerned about maintaining. But second, most of my friends are reasonably sensible about privacy issues.

motyl July 1 2011, 02:16:26 UTC

For what it's worth, I know that after you post something you can "disable reshare" using the drop down on the right. That may not stop people from copy-pasting, and certainly won't stop people from retyping what you say, but it does at least prevent them from sharing through the official mechanism (which is the only way to prove that you actually said something to users who could not see it)

leora July 1 2011, 02:23:56 UTC

That's a good feature. Mainly, I mention it as a standard risk of sharing info with a lot of people online. It's not really an issue with any of the sites, so much as it is an issue with how savvy the people you share content with are and how concerned with privacy they are ( ... )

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leora July 2 2011, 20:38:11 UTC

They aren't using a normal invite system. They are turning the ability to invite people on and off as load permits. There is a method that seems to work for some people. Going to this link may work for you. Or it might not. But this is my best attempt: https://plus.google.com/u/0/114046368940475682341/posts/Rgd2LLVmmrm