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Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network

Posted by timothy on from the not-my-favorite-of-google-moves dept.

David Gerard writes "Eric Schmidt has revealed that Google+ is an identity service, and the 'social network' bit is just bait. Schmidt says 'G+ is completely optional,' not mentioning that Google has admitted that deleting a G+ account will seriously downgrade your other Google services. As others have noted, Somewhere, there are two kids in a garage building a company whose motto will be 'Don't be Google.'"

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  1. Re:Don't Be Evil? That's just a lie by poetmatt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    wha?

    you can pretty much make your entire profile invisible on g+. change the profile photo to something random, use a fake name, make sure every post is only seen by certain people.

    Do you have any idea what you're talking about?

    Yes, people have gotten locked out but it's rare and fake names *don't* get locked.