[AliHasan7k4a]

Google can't replace facebook as social networking site

[KristiyanBogdanovpgoj]

Where's the +1 button???

Where's your +1 button???

[VinukolluRaghavaTejavy76]

5th point is fb is poor steward...
9th point is G+ is better steward..

lol lol lol .. I really want this author to have in my G+ Circles ...

[VinukolluRaghavaTejavy76]

5th point : FB is poor steward
9th point : G+ is better Steward

Who is the author ... roflmao ...

[neptg86w]

I will certainly consider moving to Google+ Hopefully Google will create a easy way to do it.

[foodandart]

The trick to getting off of facebook is to max your security settings, shut off everyone's ability to post to your wall, change your profile info to question marks then logout for three weeks. This gives their system time to float your changes across their servers.

Then when you login again, delete posts from your wall a page or two, then wait a few days, then go back in and hit it some more. Occasionally it won't let you remove a post - no big, that's just their servers are busy, so you move on and get it later.

As you remove content, it's system will start to scour through the databases looking for more of your data to show to you on your wall.

Eventually, it will bring you EVERYTHING - even the stuff you've posted to OTHER people's pages - and that is the data that keeps you in their system.

Once you have gotten all the posts you've made, you then go through and untag all the photos you've been listed in.

Logout for a few days and then at the very end, 'un'friend everyone and logout for another few weeks.

It's taken me the better part of a year to give FB the slip, but I've done it. When I login now, it's offering me a bunch of random people I do not know to be on my 'friends' list.

If you're willing to take the time to do it, you CAN erase your entire presence - use the nature of *how* FB is designed to bring all the data - posts, replies, images.. everything - back to you so you can remove it.

This post has been edited by foodandart: 03 July 2011 - 06:40 PM

[cwrig]

When I use Google +, I feel like a grown-up.

Its fast, doesn't feel like its ready to crash at any moment, visually appealing and well designed. Facebook now looks like a kids toy.

[HankRearden]

cwrig, on 03 July 2011 - 07:39 PM, said:

When I use Google +, I feel like a grown-up.

Its fast, doesn't feel like its ready to crash at any moment, visually appealing and well designed. Facebook now looks like a kids toy.

I like it, too. If this doesn't catch on like wild-fire, I'd be surprised. In just a few days of using this, I've almost forgot facebook. I'm waiting for a few news organizations to catch up so I can drop twitter as well. This software is perfect. If you're on Android, it has push notification as well.

[SusyBoyter8stm]

Definitely moving to Google + got invite, but still cannot get in. Hurry!

[CoryMayerbgre]

I trust Facebook much more than Google, however I will try this when it comes out.

This post has been edited by CoryMayerbgre: 03 July 2011 - 09:32 PM

[MarcoGup7m]

Reading that "Google Is a Better Steward of Your Personal Data" made my day! Thank you for making me laugh!

[AndreaRossiezpi]

Please, add a +1 button to this post!! I'm becoming addicted to this +1 thing!

[AndreaRossiezpi]

Please, add a +1 button on this page! I'm becoming addicted to this +1 thing!

[BrianFay47yn]

I'll be using Google+ as soon as they integrate it with Google Apps, if they get around to that ever. Sigh.

[JayveeBradyrccp]

While I agree with almost every facet, let's point out that Google was fairly blind and presumptive with the launch of Buzz, in that it shared everything with everybody in your gmail contacts, thus sparking, I'm sure, some really bad revalations and indiscretions that anyone with common sense could have seen coming. However, it's true that the younger, and more importantly, arrogant FaceBook crew, *consistently* exploits all personal information in two vanes: 1. intentionally commercializing personal information, and, 2. presuming any concoction of technology is Facebook's to apply without regard for personal choices in relationships. This is keenly apparent in the fundamental difference that Google+'s "Circles" recognizes humans, and humans alone, can determine how and with whom to socialize.

[SerdarNevruzolu71p7]

Why your site doesn't have +1 button? And you should have mentioned that feature too..

[TimArmstrongxtli]

Is it really that hard to delete your Facebook account? Let's see what Google turns up.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q...ook+account&l=1

Is it really that hard to work out how to delete your Facebook account?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q...ook+account&l=1

[k8d2]

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This post has been edited by k8d2: 04 July 2011 - 12:23 PM

[k8d2]

10. Make sure Google employees get a bonus this year.
From businessinsider.com
http://tinyurl.com/3hh2mqq

[BrettGlass]

Google a good steward of personal data? Indeed, if "good steward" means collecting, cataloguing and correlating it all for its own purposes. Facebook has done a poor job of providing privacy, but Google is openly anti-privacy. If you take the bait and subscribe to Google+, Google will be able to combine the data it gets on your personal relationships with the data it gleans from tracking you everywhere on the Web to make a complete dossier on you -- one that will NOT disappear if you try to delete it. This is a creepy company that MUST not be trusted. Shame on PC World for suggesting that you do so.