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If Google built this as "people can send you messages on Google+," and you get a notification in G+, wouldn't that be perfectly normal for a social network? And
by chaz 13y ago
If Google built this as "people can send you messages on Google+," and you get a notification in G+, wouldn't that be perfectly normal for a social network? And in addition to that notification, you get an email, saying that "John Smith has sent you a message on Google+," isn't that pretty normal as well? Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn all do this by default.
I don't think it's that much different if the from: tag is changed from "Google+ Notifications" to "John Smith" and the subject is changed accordingly. The in-Gmail treatment looks reasonable to me, based on Google's blog post. [edited for clarity]
- jfb 13y agoI mean, I don't use Gmail, or G+, but isn't innovation in messaging a good thing? Mail needs a good rethink, and yeah, maybe I'd prefer it to be by someone other than Google, but I have a hard time seeing malicious intent here.
- cjoh 13y agoPlus, One actually has much more control over my inbox than one does over Google+ Notifications.
- Zigurd 13y agoYou can send a private message to anyone on Google+ that way right now. A limiting factor is that unless you are following that person, or they are following you, there might be too many matches to the name for Google+ to find the right John Smith, for example.