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Marco is a bit too vitriolic about this, but I think the main point stands: Letting anybody email you, even if you have tried to keep your email address private
by cjensen 13y ago
Marco is a bit too vitriolic about this, but I think the main point stands: Letting anybody email you, even if you have tried to keep your email address private, is a pretty stupid idea. It should default to opt-in or possibly default to allowing your G+ contacts to mail you.
- csallen 13y agoWhat, exactly, makes it stupid? Worst-case scenario: a few people email you, you get annoyed, delete their emails, and opt-out. Am I missing something?
- hobs 13y agoThe part where you opt-in.
- csallen 13y agoThe point of my comment is that it's perfectly fine without opt-in.
- pingswept 13y agoI think it's the "you get annoyed" step that people would prefer to avoid by default, rather than having it imposed on them by default.
- hobs 13y agoI understand that, and it is perfectly fine to have that opinion, you just may find that many disagree with that opinion.
- csallen 13y agoMore specifically, the point of my comment was to give several reasons why opt-out was okay, and in return I was hoping to get a contradictory perspective providing reasons why it's not okay. A discussion that never goes beyond "I (dis)agree" isn't much of a discussion.
- hobs 13y agoSounds fair enough. Though in my defense opt out isnt just "I disagree", its I disagree because of the method by which I am automatically signed up for an additional feature which I disagree with. 1. This was not a feature that I originally signed up for, and increases the possibility of irritating/trivial items to be sent to me, I have a spam filter for things like this and in general would rather not mark google as spam, they send me a good number of other things which I do find useful (which seems to be an abuse of the "trust" however thin that I have with them). 2. My private email is perceived as somewhat sacrosanct even though it is an obvious federated system. A somewhat apt analogy is my home address, while some people could definitely find it through various means and communication happens all the time by parties I do not want to send me mail, I do not give it nor do I invite strangers to approach it, and I especially dont like it when a friend of a friend gives out my address to strangers. 3. In general, opt-out features of social networks are by design an anti-feature meant to drive more engagement for them, and has little to no perceived benefit to me. (Yes you can say facebook does it, and that is why I dont have a facebook account) Better?
- Mikeb85 13y agoPlease, my email is firstname.lastname @ gmail. A lot of people do this. Email isn't private. At worst, this is a mild G+ related annoyance...