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> G+ isn't for everyone, and that's fine. It is a product which is now highly polished, and provides exactly what I and many other people have wanted from a soc
by DigitalTurk 13y ago
> G+ isn't for everyone, and that's fine. It is a product which is now highly polished, and provides exactly what I and many other people have wanted from a social network.
Is it possible yet to change the visibility of old posts? The absence of small privacy features like this—features that FB does have—always was very off-putting for me. When Google+ was launched they made a huge deal out of Circles, but it strikes me that since then Google has pushed Google+ more as an alternative to Twitter than as an alternative to Facebook (and I don't like Twitter much).
Anyway, I used Google+ so little that I deleted my account in a petty rage when they shut down Google Reader. It's actually nice to have one less social network to worry about.
- tsycho 13y ago> Is it possible yet to change the visibility of old posts? The absence of small privacy features like this—features that FB does have... Are you sure you have thought this through? Allowing retro-active changes to visibility (unless it's only in a more restrictive direction) can be a privacy violation for the commenters, who may have commented based on the original visibility list. And allowing visibility changes towards a more restrictive set will confuse the people who could see the post till yesterday, might even have commented on it, and suddenly can't see it anymore. Privacy decisions are not as simple as they might appear on a cursory glance, and overall I find that G+ takes privacy very seriously. Seen from the above light, the current policy of not allowing visibility changes, but allowing the author to delete the post, makes a lot more sense.
- DigitalTurk 13y agoI disagree. Allowing more people to see a post is already possible by adding people to the circles that you shared the post with.