Google doesn't do anything without considering how to sell ads. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Eckehard Wegner <overpenta...@googlemail.com> wrote: > dunno about the usage of the word friends in English but when I call > someone a friend I do so with a sense of pride and obligation. I never > liked facebook's use of the word for that very reason, AOL used buddy > which I liked a lot better (not to say I liked or even used AOL) > > the google+ concept of circles that I can name individually is much > nicer - I hope they'll stick to don't be evil and keep the place clean > of ads and not get into the kind of heavy data mining and callous > disregard for privacy as facebook does... > > 2011/7/11 Keith Whaley <keit...@dslextreme.com>: >> steve harley wrote: >>> >>> On 2011-07-10 14:05 , Matthew Hunt wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Tim Bray<tb...@textuality.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Be happy to send those invites, but I need a gmail-flavored address. >>>>> -Tim >> >>>> I just sent invites to Steve & Ecke, no Gmail address required. Maybe >>>> Google just doesn't trust their own people with that power yet. :-) >> >>> thanks Matthew -- it worked (with two attempts), and tied itself to my >>> Google account; thanks to Tim for the offer too; now i can figure out >>> what it amounts to for me (a Facebookophobe) >> >> Ahhh, another one. I catered to my grandkid's requests, and joined Facebook, >> some year ago. >> Up to now, I've had requests from well over 300 total strangers to be their >> friends! >> >> What IS it with people? >> >> Why in God's name do they want to make friends with and talk to a complete >> stranger? >> >> Yeah, we both know ONE person, mutually. So bloody what? >> >> keith >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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