All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011

Re:All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31... by saurik on Monday March 14, 2011 @08:01AM (#2322130)

I think the argument here is: if you are going to have a private profile, you may as well simply not have a profile. Like, why did you spend the time to fill in a bunch of details into Google Profile just to mark it "private"?

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Re:All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31... by agentultra on Monday March 14, 2011 @08:07AM (#2322138)

Perhaps so you could share it explicitly with people you've vetted and trust with your information?

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Re:All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31... by Kylekramer on Monday March 14, 2011 @08:13AM (#2322151)

But there is no mechanism to share it explicitly with people you vetted. This isn't Facebook, there aren't friends with various levels of permission and a public version.

You could do that by just showing your screen to your vetted people, though, I suppose.

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Re:All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31... by jamesgeck0 on Monday March 14, 2011 @09:40AM (#2322384)

(a) There are friends with various levels of permission. Certain fields on the profile can be set to be visible only to certain groups of contacts.

(b) Upon noting (a), I filled out a private profile in anticipation that Google would be rolling out further mechanisms to share private profiles with certain contact groups.

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