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Re: [LUG] Google plus, who's using it and what are your thoughts?

 

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/09/22/security-lessons-learned-from-the-diaspora-launch/

I would steer people to look at Appleseed over Diaspora, more eyes on the code.

Cheers Mark

On 4 July 2011 07:13, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/07/11 19:45, Dava wrote:
>>
>> Now, to be honest, I was never one for social networking sites, but after
>> moving house, i found it the best way for me to communicate with friends
>> etc.  Now at the moment i'm using *cough* Facebook *cough* but never been a
>> huge fan. I Have a friend that works at Google and recently received an
>> invite for Google+. I am still very new in using it so to give a full write
>> up on it wouldn't be easy.
>>
>> Google+ word got out recently and basically it took off in a big way,
>> Google tried throttling it with 15 invites only but now seem to have sorted
>> things out for as many invites as needed. I can hand out invites if you
>> require them to get yourselves up and running but please send them to my
>> email rather than through LUG so we don't flood things.  The invites aren't
>> for a personal use, but purely to hear you views on the new service.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry for the cough
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Dave
>>
> I'd personally avoid any centralised data sucking app - though I do use
> facebook it knows little about me and I have fun annoying it.
> Diaspora https://joindiaspora.com/ may be worth looking at and if you have
> web hosting certainly worth a try. At least YOU have control - imagine what
> monsters will be unleashed in 5 years time if facebook is worth what myspace
> is and a rogue like MS buys it an has effective control of all your info and
> photos. Ditto google ..
> Tom te tom te tom
>
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