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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

On 10/9/2011 8:25 PM, Chris Garriss wrote:
> I would have some concern about the amount of personal information many
> social networks "share" with or without the permission of the individual.
> Location in real time, likes, dislikes, pictures, friends,  relatives etc.

That is limited to what you put in your profile and where you want your 
profile to be made accessable and you can block all search engines from 
indexing your profile and likewise your posts other than the ones you 
designate to be made public. Your visibility and your posts, your 
friends, etc. can be limited to a group of users specified by you alone.
I don't yet see any loopholes that would compromise this. As far as what 
happens on the server end, in the cloud, etc. I can only speculate;
I'll leave the rest to the conspiracy theorists while I enjoy the best 
of Google+. Facebook is another matter and I understand less about 
security issues there while at the same time I feel fairly well 
protected. You can get at only a little of Facebook through Google's 
search but you can get a lot of Google+, as it should be but that is 
limited to how you configure your account, which seems easy to me. I 
found invaluable help files on doing this which I will be glad to share.

LL