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Well I'm thankful I closed my Google+ account now. The wave of mass spamming was completely relentless ... even after I closed my account. I literally disabled

by rjd 15y ago

Well I'm thankful I closed my Google+ account now. The wave of mass spamming was completely relentless ... even after I closed my account. I literally disabled emails (to prevent the wave of spam I was hite with), then I decided to leave, and then request no updates after leaving O_o they just kept coming. Somehow I think they are going to take the same approach of mass spamming Facebook did, I guess games are the best way to do this and create stickiness... EDIT: spam = 20-30 unwanted emails a day. And I kept getting them after I left, I had to fill in a second form to get them to stop. I know of atleast one other person this has happened to aswell. Not sure if its fixed now or not.

jamesbritt 15y ago
Interesting. I've not had that experience at all. A handful of followers who, as best I could tell, only wanted to alert me to their fantabulus products, but hardly anything momentous. What I wonder now is why this happens to some but not others. "I'm not very cool", of course, is one plausible explanation. :)
- rjd 15y ago
  Or position. I've been running the online branch of a news organisation, so a lot of the people who are in my direct network are journalists, people trying to get attention from the media, and of course advertising agencies. I used G+ for about 3 weeks from launch and I found it a horrible experience. Basically none of the people I want to keep in touch with use it, everything else was spam. I'm also known under a pseudonym so I didn't see any point of using the service. I found it more of an highly opinionated Tumblr clone (lacking the flare of Tumblr) than a Facebook clone.
  - rwolf 15y ago
    Based on your comments here, it sounds like your circles mainly included professional contacts. Have you used twitter in a similar fashion? How were the spam levels there? Edit: My question sounded sarcastic when I reread it. I don't have any newspaper-industry contacts on twitter or google+, so I'm curious about the extent to which the network influences their sharing habits.
    - rjd 15y ago
      My EDIT: Most of them use posting tools, like ping.fm. So all networks are spammed equally. They just use social networks as spam aggregation tools ----------------------------------------- LOL I used twitter for a while, but I found it very intrusive and stopped using it. That was before I started working for 'big media'. From a personal level I didn't see much value from it. I still have a professional account but I only check that once a week or something. I don't have a desire to be instantly upto date like some people, I can wait a week and really I have IM, work email, personal email, cellphone, work phone, facebook, tumblr, all buzzying constantly. I don't need more crap what I need is more time. If someone would build a social network that address information overflow that'd be great. (just misspelled 'network' as 'betwork' ... theres an idea for someone that loves maths, build a social tool to share sports betting odds amongst friends, liek a better tipping game or something)
  - ajross 15y ago
    Wait, that's not "spam" as traditionally understood. What you're describing is targetted email intended specifically for you. You're saying essentially that people who wanted to find you, could. That's a bad thing from an anonymity perspective, I guess, but it's a rather different problem than "spam".
    - rjd 15y ago
      I don't think so. If someone is spamming a thread they are over posting, I view it the same way. I can remember at one point having 200 Facebook emails in one day. Tell me that isn't spam. I often hear people moanign abuot 'Facebook spam' and have heard others moan about 'Google+ spam' as well. Sure you signed up, and might nto truly unsolicated, but its the quantity thats the issue. A daily update similiar to what linkedIn does is what I would prefer.
RobAtticus 15y ago
I'm not sure I follow. I've disabled notifications except for people adding me, mentioning me, or sharing with me directly and only receive emails for those. Particular people spamming your feed? Put them in a different circle and dont check that one as much. People who are not in your circles and are sending you things you don't want? Block them. Also games looks like it's going to be contained to one place, so if you don't want to see it you don't have to.
- rjd 15y ago
  As I noted in my other reply, alot of my friend are journalists and people in advertising agencies. The circles things breaks down when business and play over lap like that. The email thing is probably fixed now. It wasn't jsut that it was also when I quite the first time people where still hassling me for invites. I signed back in and all my networks and even my profile picture where still active (a day later). I had specifically removed the connections and data before closing, I shut everything down. I assume these where teething pains but I still wrote a stern reply.
groby_b 15y ago
You are aware that you can turn off all e-mails from G+ to your account in your settings, right?
- rjd 15y ago
  If you reread what I typed I did, and then after I quit I was still getting them.
  - groby_b 15y ago
    That sounds like a bug... turning them off worked fine for me. Have you filed feedback?

by rjd 15y ago

jamesbritt 15y ago

Interesting. I've not had that experience at all. A handful of followers who, as best I could tell, only wanted to alert me to their fantabulus products, but hardly anything momentous. What I wonder now is why this happens to some but not others. "I'm not very cool", of course, is one plausible explanation. :)

rjd 15y ago
Or position. I've been running the online branch of a news organisation, so a lot of the people who are in my direct network are journalists, people trying to get attention from the media, and of course advertising agencies. I used G+ for about 3 weeks from launch and I found it a horrible experience. Basically none of the people I want to keep in touch with use it, everything else was spam. I'm also known under a pseudonym so I didn't see any point of using the service. I found it more of an highly opinionated Tumblr clone (lacking the flare of Tumblr) than a Facebook clone.
- rwolf 15y ago
  Based on your comments here, it sounds like your circles mainly included professional contacts. Have you used twitter in a similar fashion? How were the spam levels there? Edit: My question sounded sarcastic when I reread it. I don't have any newspaper-industry contacts on twitter or google+, so I'm curious about the extent to which the network influences their sharing habits.
  - rjd 15y ago
    My EDIT: Most of them use posting tools, like ping.fm. So all networks are spammed equally. They just use social networks as spam aggregation tools ----------------------------------------- LOL I used twitter for a while, but I found it very intrusive and stopped using it. That was before I started working for 'big media'. From a personal level I didn't see much value from it. I still have a professional account but I only check that once a week or something. I don't have a desire to be instantly upto date like some people, I can wait a week and really I have IM, work email, personal email, cellphone, work phone, facebook, tumblr, all buzzying constantly. I don't need more crap what I need is more time. If someone would build a social network that address information overflow that'd be great. (just misspelled 'network' as 'betwork' ... theres an idea for someone that loves maths, build a social tool to share sports betting odds amongst friends, liek a better tipping game or something)
- ajross 15y ago
  Wait, that's not "spam" as traditionally understood. What you're describing is targetted email intended specifically for you. You're saying essentially that people who wanted to find you, could. That's a bad thing from an anonymity perspective, I guess, but it's a rather different problem than "spam".
  - rjd 15y ago
    I don't think so. If someone is spamming a thread they are over posting, I view it the same way. I can remember at one point having 200 Facebook emails in one day. Tell me that isn't spam. I often hear people moanign abuot 'Facebook spam' and have heard others moan about 'Google+ spam' as well. Sure you signed up, and might nto truly unsolicated, but its the quantity thats the issue. A daily update similiar to what linkedIn does is what I would prefer.

RobAtticus 15y ago

I'm not sure I follow. I've disabled notifications except for people adding me, mentioning me, or sharing with me directly and only receive emails for those. Particular people spamming your feed? Put them in a different circle and dont check that one as much. People who are not in your circles and are sending you things you don't want? Block them. Also games looks like it's going to be contained to one place, so if you don't want to see it you don't have to.

rjd 15y ago
As I noted in my other reply, alot of my friend are journalists and people in advertising agencies. The circles things breaks down when business and play over lap like that. The email thing is probably fixed now. It wasn't jsut that it was also when I quite the first time people where still hassling me for invites. I signed back in and all my networks and even my profile picture where still active (a day later). I had specifically removed the connections and data before closing, I shut everything down. I assume these where teething pains but I still wrote a stern reply.

groby_b 15y ago

You are aware that you can turn off all e-mails from G+ to your account in your settings, right?

rjd 15y ago
If you reread what I typed I did, and then after I quit I was still getting them.
- groby_b 15y ago
  That sounds like a bug... turning them off worked fine for me. Have you filed feedback?