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> they usually don't feel the need to trick users into sharing more than they'd want Like the time they didn't feel the need to harass everyone into signing up
by antsar 11y ago
> they usually don't feel the need to trick users into sharing more than they'd want
Like the time they didn't feel the need to harass everyone into signing up for G+ any time one used an unrelated service?
- jasondecastro 11y agoThat's totally different, antsar. I'm 95% sure the motive for that was to simply grow the user base of G+ and try to get more people to know that the platform even exists.
- antsar 11y agoThat probably was the motive. But the side effect is that now people have public G+ profiles which they may not have wanted, sharing information about them (even as simple as their name and photo) that they would rather keep private.
- vehementi 11y agoNo, not like that. How did you determine that sharing more than you want was like getting you to sign up for a service?
- antsar 11y agoWhen one signs up for G+, their G+ profile (containing information about them) becomes public. It is easy to rush through the setup process, especially when one did not desire to go through it, and accidentally share more information than desired.