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The Best Social Networking Site – Video


The Best Social Networking Site
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How to find social networking profiles – Video


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Pokemon Glazed | Part 13: Mew’s Shrine! – Video


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Signing Up For Gmail No Longer Requires A Google+ Account

Earlier this month, Google Google stopped forcing Gmail users to create a Google+ account upon sign up. Google+ is considered the second largest social networking website after Facebook. The growth of Google+ was largely attributed to itsrequirement for using another Google-owned service like Gmail or YouTubes comments section. The requirement to create a Google+ account to sign up for Gmail started in January 2012.

We updated the signup experience in early September. Users can now create a public profile during signup, or later, if and when they share public content for the first time (like a restaurant review, YouTube video or Google+ post), said a Google spokesperson via Telegraph UK.

I created a test account to find out how to opt out of creating aGoogle+ account when signing up for Gmail. Here is what it looks like:

Notice how you can say No thanks to Google+ now?The No thanks button was added to theGoogle Docs account sign up page as well.A Google+ profile is still required to contribute restaurant reviews, comment YouTube videos with your identity and provide ratings for content in Google Play.When Google forced people to use Google+ for commenting on YouTube videos, a petition was filed against that policy on Change.org in November 2013. Over 200,000 people signed the Change.org petition soGoogle allowed YouTube users to make comments anonymously.

Vic Gundotra, who is considered the father of Google+, departed from Google in April after working there for eight years. He was replaced by Dave Besbris, the Vice President of Engineering for Google+. When Gundotra left, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page wrote a Google+ post that said:

I really enjoy using Google+ on a daily basis, especially the auto awesome movies which I really love sharing with my family and friends. Good luck with your next project after Google. In the meantime well continue working hard to build great new experiences for the ever increasing number of Google+ fans.

However,Google has been separating Google+ with some of its other services over the last few months. About one week after Gundotra left the company, Googleremoved the word Google+ from the buttonswhere users sign into third party websites using Google credentials.Google+ stopped forcing users to add real names to their profiles in July.Last month, Google separated Google+ from Google Hangouts andshut down the Google Authorship program, which associated content with the Google+ profile of the author or owner in search results.

Even though the separation of Google+ from several Google services indicates an impending shutdown of the social network, there are still new features that are being added to it. In May, Google launched a feature that lets users weave photos and videos into an aesthetic travelogue called Stories.One month later, Google+ business admins were given several new abilities: an option tocontrol the content that is available to the public,restriction of access to Google Hangouts for specific units within an organization and a feature to hide employee profiles in external searches.Earlier this month, Google+ added an Applause feature for users to thumb up or thumb down Hangouts On Air in real-time so that the best moments will be highlighted.

There are millions of people that enjoy using Google+ more than any other social network because it has features like Stories, Auto Awesome, Google+ Communities and animated GIF support.Only time will tell what happens to Google+ in the future, but I thought it was a good idea to separate the social network from Gmail.

What are your thoughts about Google+ no longer being required to create a Gmail or Google Docs account? Let us know in the comments below.

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Hackers not a concern to vulnerable social media users

Dubai: Many people who use social media are not concerned about being vulnerable to hackers.

As more and more people continue sharing their personal information on different social networking sites, they have opened the door to hackers to collect information and commit crimes. According to a survey published by Kaspersky Lab, 76 per cent of respondents in the UAE do not think they are of any interest to hackers or do not even think about the issue.

Sarah Hassan, 21, who studies at the American University in Dubai, says she tries to be very selective with the information she shares on social networks even if her profile is private, but when it comes to Whatsapp she admits that she shares a lot of personal information because she thinks it cannot be hacked.

On social networks like Facebook or Twitter, I make sure I dont share things that could be used against me, but on Whatsapp there were many times when I shared passwords, my airplane ticket number, my debit card number, and other personal information with my family and friends, said Sarah. What I really think is that we will never feel the threat until something bad happens.

Leen Faisal, 20, from Syria, says some of her accounts are public and that she doesnt feel like she is of any interest to hackers. She doesnt usually worry about such matters.

I always post my pictures publicly on Instagram and identify my location. I dont think theres anything risky about that, but when it comes to private chatting like using Whatsapp, Ive always thought its secure and no one can hack it to get the information I share, she said.

Saif Mhaisen, 22, a Palestinian, who has a public profile on most of the social networks, said: I dont usually think deeply about how the things I share could be accessed by hackers, but I know that there is a big possibility that people could stalk others.

Indira Kasaeva, Russian, 21, said: I may at times chat with people who sent me friend requests on social networks, but I dont allow them to see my profile unless I have made sure they are good people, said Indira.

Kasaeva says it doesnt worry her that she could be targeted by cyber criminals because she limits the personal information she shares on social sites.

Mamta Babar, a mother of two girls, believes she doesnt know much about what her eldest 15-year-old daughter does on Facebook because shes unable to monitor her activity.

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