<story><title>Nonplussed</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/10/nonplussed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itafroma</author><text>I am mostly for the ostensible cleaning up of YouTube comments, but what got me was that any time you share a YouTube video on Google+ proper or comment in a thread where someone shared a YouTube video, it automatically cross-posts what you said back to the comments underneath the video on YouTube. And that&amp;#x27;s not just for shares&amp;#x2F;comments going forward: it&amp;#x27;s everything you&amp;#x27;ve ever shared publicly, ever. I&amp;#x27;m now getting inane YouTube-level comments on stuff I shared months ago because I happened to share a popular YouTube video on Google+.&lt;p&gt;As part of the rare breed of people actually using Google+ proper, it&amp;#x27;s really turned me off from the whole thing. Even though I shared YouTube videos publicly and commented on publicly-viewable Google+ posts with YouTube videos, I intended to only post my comments and shares &lt;i&gt;on&lt;/i&gt; Google+, not syndicated everywhere at a later date without additional consent[1] and especially not the cesspool that is the YouTube comment section. I don&amp;#x27;t really understand why anyone thought that&amp;#x27;d be okay. And anecdote isn&amp;#x27;t data, but talking to other Google+ users I know, nobody seemed to be aware that this was going to happen: they all just thought the identities would be merged, but if you post on Google+, it&amp;#x27;d stay on Google+.&lt;p&gt;[1]: I&amp;#x27;m aware that there&amp;#x27;s probably some clause in their privacy policy that gave them the legal ability to do this, but Google is usually pretty decent when it comes to informing of changes to privacy&amp;#x2F;visibility options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stephp</author><text>Ugh. This was my problem with Google+ too. Everything you do ripples out into the rest of the internet in a creepy way.&lt;p&gt;When I was freelancing, I emailed back and forth with potential clients through the Gmail interface. One day I saw this party pic of a 20-something girl with beer in hand, identified by the full name of a receptionist I had emailed with professionally but never actually met. It was a suggestion from Google to connect with her on Google+, which I&amp;#x27;m sure she&amp;#x27;d have been mortified by. I deleted my account that day.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nonplussed</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/10/nonplussed/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>itafroma</author><text>I am mostly for the ostensible cleaning up of YouTube comments, but what got me was that any time you share a YouTube video on Google+ proper or comment in a thread where someone shared a YouTube video, it automatically cross-posts what you said back to the comments underneath the video on YouTube. And that&amp;#x27;s not just for shares&amp;#x2F;comments going forward: it&amp;#x27;s everything you&amp;#x27;ve ever shared publicly, ever. I&amp;#x27;m now getting inane YouTube-level comments on stuff I shared months ago because I happened to share a popular YouTube video on Google+.&lt;p&gt;As part of the rare breed of people actually using Google+ proper, it&amp;#x27;s really turned me off from the whole thing. Even though I shared YouTube videos publicly and commented on publicly-viewable Google+ posts with YouTube videos, I intended to only post my comments and shares &lt;i&gt;on&lt;/i&gt; Google+, not syndicated everywhere at a later date without additional consent[1] and especially not the cesspool that is the YouTube comment section. I don&amp;#x27;t really understand why anyone thought that&amp;#x27;d be okay. And anecdote isn&amp;#x27;t data, but talking to other Google+ users I know, nobody seemed to be aware that this was going to happen: they all just thought the identities would be merged, but if you post on Google+, it&amp;#x27;d stay on Google+.&lt;p&gt;[1]: I&amp;#x27;m aware that there&amp;#x27;s probably some clause in their privacy policy that gave them the legal ability to do this, but Google is usually pretty decent when it comes to informing of changes to privacy&amp;#x2F;visibility options.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spyder</author><text>And cross-posting G+ comments makes YouTube comments worse not better because many times when people share video on G+ the text is  just the video title or something like: Must watch &lt;i&gt;video title&lt;/i&gt; or &amp;quot;Checkout this video on YouTube&amp;quot;. Showing these in the YouTube comments is useless spam. Also there is  lot of &amp;quot;empty&amp;quot; comments with only a &amp;quot;shared this via Google+&amp;quot; thing which is even more useless. It&amp;#x27;s turning into something like the end of Tumblr posts with page long list of likes without any comment.</text></comment>