What the heck is Google+?
Got 6.626068 × 10-34 m2 kg / s?
I just tell everyone I'm a cook.
/johnny
Google leaders are incredibly smart and innovative. May not like their politics but you cannot deny they are brilliant.
Just because my youtube account is now linked to my google+ account doesn’t mean I’m using google+. And they can tell because most of the time I go to youtube it’s to share something to facebook.
It’s really a silly tactic, because they may get people to sign up for an account, but I don’t think there is really any “social networking” going on for most of these accounts, certainly not for mine. I sign in when I am forced to, and sign out as soon as possible. I’ve got no “friends” or “groups” that I have joined, and have no idea how to even see anyone else’s, or even my own profile.
So, it seems to me they are getting people to sign up for a illusory social network that is not actually being used much by anyone. Maybe that will be impressive on paper, but it will likely collapse when people realize there is nothing there.
I just had to deal with this a few days ago. I use Google Picasa which is an extremely convenient photo-editing and online sharing utility. To my great surprise they converted all of my Picasa images to the photo section on a Google+ account and then added my YouTube videos as well. After much research and hassle I figured out the convoluted process to un-Google+ all my stuff, but it was a pain in the neck and I had to figure out how to do it on my own (with the help of a tech blogger article I found.)
I was thinking of setting up a Google+ account recently but not anymore. I refuse to be “herded” into anything like some clueless sheep.
Through a clever combination of ignorance, apathy, and just plain don’t give a rat’s a$$, I manage to avoid both of them.
(Even if you don’t use this information now, save it for when you might need it.)
1) Get several fake identities. Keep good records of the information for later.
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
2) Get a throwaway email address with a fake name, from anyone but gmail. Foreign universities are the best. Use them to get another email from someone like Lycos, with a different fake name. They will be your entry to anything Google.
3) If you use Google, periodically delete the Google cookies. You first need to delete your “flash cookies”, which are often used to back up your browser cookies. You do this at the Adobe website:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
The picture you see at the top of the screen is not a picture, but a control panel of the flash cookies on your computer. Unless you delete these first, your browser cookies will have their data about you restored when you delete them.
Then you delete your browser cookies as you normally would.
4) Give your fake identity and email a calendar “lifespan”, so that every six months or year, you discontinue using them and begin again with a different fake identity and fake emails.
5) When you just need a quick email for some business that just wants to spam you, use 10 minute email, which will give you a functioning email address for just 10 minutes, that you can renew. This is useful for when they send a confirmation email to that address. It works just like a real email. Then after you let it expire, it’s gone for good. You’re in and registered and they have nothing.
http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html
6) As an additional goodie, try to use the almost maximum allowable number of password characters. Almost nobody uses a 64 character password, which would be extremely hard to even “brute force” break.
http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/
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Sure there is.
IXQUICK blows the doors off the other search engines.
It's simple and fast, and has NO "autocomplete" which is what made me stop using Yahoo search.
Forward+ !