Google Plus

[ffutures]

I won't be joining Google Plus - I tried it very briefly, realised just how much of my personal information they wanted for the account - nothing is optional including birthdays etc. - and that they wanted to use my most frequent gmail contacts as the core of my circle, or whatever it is they call it.

On the whole I don't think I want to go there - I prefer to leave email and social networking completely separate.

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[inamac.livejournal.com]

One reason that I don't have a gmail account (apart from the one set up years ago for the cat club) is that they insisted on having a personal phone number through which to contact me - I never could work out why.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

That may be if you've used Google's money transfer system to pay for things - I've done it a couple of times, I've since deleted my details.