On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 19:52:26 Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently, but
> > are
> > you aware that they scanned your address book and spammed around about
> > it? There are some of us who don’t want to be part of any social moloch.
> 
> No, they didn't crawl my address book, or do anything of the sort.
> 
> On Google+, I follow people who I believe (or at least suspect) to be
> intelligent or knowledgeable in technical fields. That includes everyone on
> the gentoo-user and gentoo-dev mailing lists; you folks are among the
> highest grade of computer and software geeks I've come across.
> 
> In the GMail web interface, there's a pane on the right which shows people
> involved in the conversation. While reading Gentoo-related threads, if I
> see people listed there that I haven't added to my 'Technical folk' circle,
> I add them. I _thought_ it was only showing people who already had Google
> accounts.
> 
> Apparently, that last presumption isn't true...and as a consequence, when I
> add people to my list-of-people-to-watch, Google sends them an invite if
> they don't already have Google accounts. Apologies for any spam, but
> understand that I have no clear way of knowing whether or not someone has a
> Google+ account before I add them; people who don't have them simply show
> up as 'this person hasn't shared anything with you.'

When I received your Google+ invite I thought that Google was taking liberties 
with your actual intentions and spamming your contacts perhaps.

I do have and use a gmail account for this list, but I do not (knowingly) 
partake in social websites like Google+, Buzz,  Facebook & Twitter.  I also 
use Gtalk for IM, but as far as I know by using Gmail and Gtalk I am not 
automatically subscribed to Google+ and the like.

PS.  What does "people to watch" do?  It sounds rather voyeuristic ...  O_o
-- 
Regards,
Mick