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Google+ invite lands man in jail

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Re: Google+ invite lands man in jail

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I have a friend who works the emergency telephone line and is getting increasingly frustrated with calls regarding Facebook. A typical call will have the caller complain that, "[person x] has written something horrible on my wall!" So he says, "hang on? They've written on your wall ? So you're friends with them?! Just un-friend them!" In fact in a recent review he was told off for groaning loudly on the telephone whe…

G+ did nothing out of the ordinary here (if indeed it did anything, there is plenty of guess work in that post) Facebook friending and Twitter following have landed many a person in jail, none of these services got this sort of blame for it. When adding someone to your circle they get an email notification, same as when you follow someone on Twitter they get an email telling them that, But suddenly in G+ it's 'aggres…

Every time I go to google+, usually because of an email notification, i get redirected to an interstitial that helpfully wants to email all my gmail contacts to invite them to google+. Every time I go to google+ I'm one accidental button press away from annoying all my contacts.

Re: Google+ invite lands man in jail

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post #135
post #74

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If the situation is life-threatening, how would a restraining order prevent it?

Imagine a person who is likely to kill/harm you in a fit of passion . If the harasser could get carried away in an argument and start beating, but didn't leave the house planning to kill, then restraining orders can limit the time the harasser is around you and limit the time before they 'blow their cool'. When the harasser breaks the restraining order and comes near you "just to talk, I promise", you can get the pol…

So you get a restraining order and when they approach you just to talk anyway and you call the cops to come arrest them because they were not following the restraining order then they go into the same murderous rage. I am really not seeing how it is helpful, it would be illegal for them to harass you anyway.

Re: Google+ invite lands man in jail

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post #87

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If I'm going to my news feed, I'm expecting to see NEWS. Not people/groups etc. I might be interested in ... Same for me around 10% even less are actual news posts from the first page I see on my "news feed". Check Facebook or twitter for a comparison ...

You first have to follow/befriend someone to see any news, this is NOT different on Facebook! If you log in with a new account on Facebook and have less than 10 active friends, you will see the same suggestions because there are not enough posts from your friends to fill your newsfeed.

I have around 160 friends in my circles on google+ and I'm following 10 communities ... I see max 1 post. Rest is pictures I uploaded (WHY not share them ... HERE are people you might KNOW ... and "Communities you MIGHT be interested in" ... then the layout is so ridiculous that I can just see 1 or 2 posts on my small laptop screen. Sorry that's not how Facebook and Twitter look like.
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