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This oversharing problem highlights the fundamental problem with private sharing Google+ was supposed to address: users make mistakes.
by pwim 15y ago
This oversharing problem highlights the fundamental problem with private sharing Google+ was supposed to address: users make mistakes.
- jrockway 15y agoYes, but this is a problem that will only affect Google employees, not the world at large. Steve says he meant to be signed into his internal Google account, not his external Google account.
- pwim 15y agoSteve made that mistake. If I'm using Google+, I could accidentally select the wrong circle to share to.
- JanezStupar 15y agoHappened to me before. But I luckily noticed right away. But its not really something that Google could completely prevent.
- jrockway 15y agoYes, but that's true of anything, right? You could accidentally misread a traffic signal and drive into the middle of oncoming traffic. But like with sharing on social news sites, you can usually recover quickly enough that it's not a big deal. Slam the brakes, delete the post, etc. People make mistakes and no software can prevent that.
- tonfa 15y agoAccount != circles, if you are using the wrong account public sharing does not have the same meaning anymore.
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- JeremyBanks 15y agoGoogle+ was supposed to address that?