tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409357884639424814.post1270024608070524674..comments2023-06-28T19:20:03.474+09:00Comments on Lazy Talk: Google+ privacy debaclehcm9999http://www.blogger.com/profile/04630994327189249535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409357884639424814.post-57213562803183420782013-09-02T13:11:20.106+09:002013-09-02T13:11:20.106+09:00Modifying behaviour is a very difficult thing to d...Modifying behaviour is a very difficult thing to do. External factors tend to play a much larger role in motivation than internal ones do. For example, suppose you had to print out a 3 page document, send it in the mail and wait for google to +1 for you. I believe that in this case, +1s would be very rare. Contrarily, by making the +1 button easy to click, people are quite inclined to click it without thinking overmuch about it.<br /><br />If google wanted to remind people of the purpose of the +1 button, the information would be displayed on every page, rather than in a FAQ which few people read and which takes a couple dozen clicks to find. In essence, the +1 button is google's way to create a chain reaction of popularity. If it's clicked once, it ends up on your friends page. If any of your friends click it, then their friends see the page and so on. Thus, a page with more than 1000 +1s is likely to get more, while a page with only 10 is pretty unlikely to get them.<br /><br />I believe that the problem is simply that people, being people, will naturally do what they can do easily. People, being people love to make things easy for other people and know that no-one likes reading a manual, so they push the manual off to the side. Thus, the average person neither reads the manual, or adjusts their habits. Anyways, the system is made in such a way that a popular article has more chances to remain popular, because it is beneficial to google to have many popular articles, rather than many articles that no-one cares about.<br /><br />Either way, people rarely have the internal motivation to modify their behaviour when their behaviour has no real consequences for themselves (e.g, waiting time, effort, money, pain). The steeper the consequences, the fewer people who will actually try to overcome them. The world's greatest security will demotivate everyone except the people who actually want to overcome it, and those people will always find a way.<br /><br />Human ingenuity, and motivation are the two reasons we've achieved so much on this planet. The people who overcome obstacles, even when those obstacles would undo them represent the crazy sort of people that have gotten us this far. Determination is useful, but only in the case that you succeed.<br /><br />Now that I've drifted so far from topic, I will end this before I get into an extended monologue on the nature of the universe >.<TheBlackFoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14652448928928402031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409357884639424814.post-5113941543883013432013-07-12T23:18:05.280+09:002013-07-12T23:18:05.280+09:00Actually, Google hasn't just changed the behav...Actually, Google hasn't just changed the behavior of the plus-one button. Consider this:<br /><br />From https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1047397?hl=en&ref_topic=3049661<br /><br />"+1 is how you signal your appreciation for anything that grabs your attention on Google+ or on your favorite websites. When you read a post that makes you want to cheer, +1 is your applause; when you watch a video that has you in stitches, +1 is your laughter; when you see a photo that perfectly captures that special moment, +1 is your 5-star review.<br /><br />Let me stop here to emphasize that last part:<br /><br />+1 is your 5-star review.<br /><br />It's for extraordinary content, not casual /nods of approval or agreement or acknowledgment. The reason it's so noisy for some people is because most people seem to use what was intended to highlight extraordinary content in too casual a manner.<br /><br />"When you read a post that makes you want to cheer" is a very different intention than hitting the +1 button on everyone who replies to a post that you (or I) might initially share, as a /nod of acknowledgment.<br /><br />I think the distinction that one could take away from this change to G+ isn't that they've somehow broken the service, but rather they've reminded us what the button is intended to be used for. And, if we'll recognize this simple fact and adjust our own plussing habits accordingly, we may actually reap some very useful benefits from the change rolled-out today :)Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12069567487105169349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409357884639424814.post-76768729249499027152013-07-12T21:38:44.331+09:002013-07-12T21:38:44.331+09:00I have disable the feature.
The way Google has tur...I have disable the feature.<br />The way Google has turn this feature on is way better than the way Facebook uses the like button, but I still do not want my +1 to be shared with others, if I want that I would share it.<br />There is also the chance of Data Leakage, if you leave the option on, people could see that you are following some dodgy people. For example, if you +1 a photo of a lady with very little clothing on and that post was published public, but you happened to have the person circled, that +1 may show up in your extended circle list, which may include your grand mother of something. Your friend has always had the ability to see this public post, but now they associate you with this type of post. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com