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Agree that this should be opt-in only. Google may believe that people wouldn't use the feature if they had to go to the trouble of enabling it. BTW, it appears
by JosephHatfield 13y ago
Agree that this should be opt-in only. Google may believe that people wouldn't use the feature if they had to go to the trouble of enabling it. BTW, it appears that this feature cannot be used to spam others. If you receive such an email and simply delete it, the sender will not be able to send you any more messages. That is, Google only lets senders continue to email you only if you respond to the first message.
- ghaff 13y agoPersonally, I don't care. I can imagine scenarios though where someone has a huge following on social media but wants to keep their email private to a relatively small circle. This may be an edge case but nonetheless it probably exists.
- JosephHatfield 13y agoUnderstood. Note that, apparently, if you DO respond to one of these messages, the original sender is actually provided with your email address. Here's the text of a message I just received from Google: "How it works with email addresses Emailing Google+ connections works a bit differently to protect the privacy of email addresses. Your email address isn't visible to your Google+ connections until you send them an email, and their email addresses are not visible to you until they respond. "